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Hi all,
I would like to present this small fighter for your viewing pleasure.
This one came as a result of trying to find a use for the Jedi Starfighter
canopy. I’d bought a few discounted Bionicle sets recently and started holding
some of the bits together with the canopy to see how they’d look. This ship is
the result.
It is a small expendable fighter, designed to be cheaply produced in mass
quantities. It is only lightly armed with twin forward mounted pulse lasers, but
what it lack in armament it makes up for in speed and agility. They are ideally
suited to attacking targets en masse inflicting the ‘death of a thousand
cuts’. They zip in, take a few pot shots and zip out of range again before the
enemy can even think about bringing their defences to bear. In sufficient
numbers they can soon render even the most formidable capital ship defenceless
in a matter of minutes.
Premod pics at snub1
through 7.
Cheers,
Allister
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| (...) I'm a fan of many elements of this Allister. Of course, the Bionicle smooshing is the best...the shoulder guards, blades etc, but I really like how they've been mounted...all at different or opposing vectors, on angles and so forth. The engine (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Heh, neat. Kinda reminds me of the (URL) Fire Wasp> that I built, also using those new Bionicle pieces. I guess these two are birds of a feather :) I think, though, that it needs a highlight color in there, instead of light grey, dark grey, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Hi Allister, I really do like the shape of this. It's very compact and whooshable. However, something about it just doesn't work for me. I think it might be that the colors beneath the bionicle parts are too varied. You have the silver (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Ingenious. I love the nose of this ship. And it looks bland, but that's exactly why I like it. It looks mass-produced. I agree with the GA about the underlying colors tho - substitute some dark grey for all those colors and this thing will (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Good stuff. I mostly disagree with the others about the underside colours, I think it looks fine (and could be considered realistic too, I think) - although those blue bits do look out of place. I also think the ship would look better without (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| I'm a big fan of this ship. Very nice work incorporating bionicle pieces into a very nicely streamlined craft. I like the updates you made as well. It definitely captures the mass-produced military feel you were going for. If you get the pieces, I'd (...) (21 years ago, 10-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) -snip- This is a really excellent start. The shape is spot on. If I had built it I would have ditched the wings and tried to make the cockpit seal a little better (ahh the eternal challenge). I'm also not into the lasers on the bottom. The (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) Really. Freakin'. Cool. Makes me think A-4 Skyhawk, but made for space... -Tim (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| (...) i like the look of this one particularly the metallic looking 'shields' around the rear thrusters. would like some pics of how the triangle of thrusters affixes to the rest of the ship don't like the fact that the canopy is open-air but hey, (...) (21 years ago, 11-Jul-03, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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