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Hello everybody, I am certainly glad to present my 150th MINI model to you!
When you look at the Star Wars merchandise these day, you will notice that one
main focus is on the Clone Wars. To participate in this wave, here is a common
and popular starship coming freshly from the recent Clone Wars TV series: the
Republic Nu-class Attack Shuttle!
As most shuttles from the Rise of the Empire era, it has similarities to the
later Lambda-class Imperial shuttle. The side wings remind more to the
Theta-class shuttle from Revenge of the Sith, however. Everything at this ship -
including the cockpit - is angled which makes it difficult to design.
The cockpit is completely studs-down and connected via clicky hinge plates to
the main body. To close the gap between angled cockpit and main body, the
combination of a headlight brick with a 1x1 slope does the trick. Clip plates
and bars enable the wings to fold up completely into the correct landing
position.
On a side note, the engines are in fact Belville flower pieces. Sometimes you
have to attach an engine glowing directly at a bar’s end, and in this case the
flower pieces with their hollow stud are the perfect way to do this.
Another difficult part of the shuttle were its wings. They have an angle
bracket. To build this you have to use a bracket. But none of the conventional
brackets did work in this case as the shape was disturbed by all of them. After
some time, the old-fashioned fence piece came to mind, and these worked
perfectly! They act as a kind of “inverted” bracket as I often call it.
  
  
Click the thumbnails or
this link to view the full gallery and instructions
We used garden fences and flowers to build a spacecraft. I hope you’ll enjoy
this one as much as I did! I wish you all happy building and see you around!
Yours Chris Deck
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