That is all kinds of frakkin' coolness!

Well done sir! Well done indeed!

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yeah, that's fan-fricking-tastic. I didn't know I knew what the ship was until I saw the final product. Then I remembered it very clearly from the game. Great work. I know you referenced in another thread some uncertainty as to what to focus on next, but I definitely think you should run with other projects like this.

Next time, make paper patterns of the pieces that can be easily scanned or copied too

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this is just outstanding bro!!!!

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Truly a work of art. Your attention to detail is on the money. You've made me want to dig out my old PS1 copy of Dark Forces. As for what's next, Colonial Viper?!

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fantastic! loved the games, this was a delight to see. I really like the size of it. hope you make more scratch builds

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Scale and detail is amazing... the fact that it's scratch built is astonishing, it looks PERFECT. Love those old games!

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Thanks for the responses, everyone!



I won't be standing on it any time soon, but it's fairly solid. I put support braces on the insides to give it a bit more strength. And I used a really, really strong epoxy to hold the horizontal engine bar on.




This just made me laugh, because another place I posted this, people keep going on about how I made it way too small (And there's a smudge on the cockpit glass! And you said a swear in the first post!). I think the extra wing I would have had to build onto my house to contain the scale they want me to have built it at would have really added to the project.



I really wish I'd done this. Unfortunately, so much of the piecing together was done trial and error that, by the time I got it right, it was already assembled. I'm not so much a "measure twice, cut once" type of guy as a, "Cut, cut, cut, CUT CUT CUT WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THIS KNIFE AWAY FROM ME?" guy.

Again, thanks for all the feedback! I probably will do another scratch build at some point. It's a lot of fun to watch it all come together.

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Lame. You know if Hasbro ever got around to it would be half the size of yours. And I don't know if I buy that argument, I remember in the first game it's visible on some of the maps, and it's giant... though that's probably "non-canon" now.

It's beautiful. I want to have its babies.

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Haters are going to hate. That's what they do. Let them try and build something as cool- let alone on their first attempt. This project rocks.
I had people make fun of my Devastator. And pick on my APC. So I've been there too.

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Wait, people picked on the APC? I know their main complaint with the Devastator was that it didn't transform (facepalm) but what the hell problem could someone have with the APC?

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Heh, that it wasn't 100% movie accurate. People will, and can I guess, always find something to pick on.
(I'm working on a non-transforming 1:18th Optimus now that I'm 50-50 I'll ever show because I don't want to hear crap.)

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Just post it here, John. You know you'll get thought out critiques and comments instead of bashing from people that don't have 1/8 the skill you do.

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According to Wookiepedia, it's supposedly 29 metres long, but I really don't see it, considering that roughly half of its length is cockpit (which also makes its classification as a "light freighter" really silly).

I believe you mean "kriffing" coolness.

Unless, of course, you're a Cularin...

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I think the problem is that the ship's size in game is a lot different than it is in the cutscenes. Or rather, the interior is bigger than the exterior. But since I didn't make interior beyond the cockpit, I based it on the game models and sized it according to the player model's size.

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Don't worry about what people are syaing, this thing is BEAUTIFUL!

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