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Full disclosure: Since I put the finishing touches on this ship a couple weeks
before the Civilian MOC Contest was announced, it doesn’t qualify as an
official entry...
The inspiration: I was watching an old favorite movie, Battle Beyond The
Stars, which features some of the most delightfully odd (and anatomically
correct) spaceship designs on record. A couple of ships that caught my eye this
time were Gelt’s (resembling a manta ray) and Cayman’s (resembling a grouper
fish, or a lizard’s head, or a McD’s apple pie carton) -- both with prominent
“open mouths” up front.
So I tinkered around with this “gaping bow” design, and (with a little help and
a lot of parts from a certain J. Fett) came up with something that’s part
hot-rod, part dustbuster, and almost all intake:
Although I originally imagined this as a spacecraft, one look at that intake and
those vented engines, and obviously this has to be an atmospheric vehicle --
something you’d find zipping around Coruscant in defiance of local speed
restrictions.
Wanna race?
Matt
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| (...) Great concept and execution! I really dig your application of greebles too. One thing though - can the pilot see over the front of the craft? Cheers, (URL) Sci-Fi LEGO> (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| In lugnet.space, Matt Bohlmann wrote: snip (...) snip This is a really cool design. I love how you used those big curved bricks to build a preety small craft. Great color sheme, too. Very well done. (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Very original! I quite like it...such an odd, but effective mix of simple greebs and slope placement. The 'gaping maw' reminds me of the open grill of the 70's Camero's...just plain mean. The only minor thing that off tweaks it a bit for me is (...) (20 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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