woofmcmoose Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 (edited) Location: D03 - Terrial Major Tags: Spaceship, Exploration Job: Pilot Cockpit Voice Recorder Playback Transcript Vessel: Survey Craft 039 Callsign: Locust 39 Pilot: Henry Moose Transcript Begins Locust 3-9: Control, Locust Three-Niner descending to begin aerial survey of Sector Charlie. Control: Locust Three-Niner, Roger, How's it looking? Locust 3-9: Ship is green, outside is white.... really white. Control: Roger, Three-Niner, keep your eyes peeled. Ground survey teams have spotted some nasty wildlife, some aerial photos would be useful as most of the teams were too busy running away to get any hard data. Locust 3-9: Ok Control, wilco, but I think this sector is pretty quiet; visual and infra-red scopes are clear. Locust 3-9: Control, Locust Three-Niner, checking in on the hour, nothing to rep .....uninteligible..... Megabloks! What the blok is that. .....uninteligible..... all over me .....uninteligible..... taking evasive .....uninteligible..... Control: Three-Niner, say again. Locust 3-9: .....uninteligible..... big claws .....uninteligible.... breathing ice .....uninteligible....can't shake it .....uninteligible.... Locust 3-9: .....uninteligible..... no option .....uninteligible..... crazy ivan .....uninteligible..... woohooo, follow this you .....uninteligible..... frost dragon Locust 3-9: .....uninteligible..... oh yeah! Control: Three-Niner, Control, come-in, what's your status? Locust 3-9: .....uninteligible..... That was close control. Some kind of flying predator, bigger than my ship, thought I was lunch! I'm bugging out unless you can give me some fighter cover. Control: Three-Niner, negative on the fighters, but you're cleared to return to base, the science boys will want a look at your mission tapes. Hope you like the build and story. I hadn't expected to get one done this week but the British weather put off all the outdoor chores I otherwise would have been doing! A couple of shots of the ship to show off the construction techniques. The podded engines (and some of the story) are a nod to firefly in case you hadn't guessed. I'm happy I managed to cram some controls in the cockpit here too despite the obscene number of brick/plate with studs on side in such a small space. And a couple more of the 'dragon'. Less happy with how he turned out (I have far fewer white pieces than I thought). I tried to keep with the cyclops wildlife theme running through the other D03 builds. You might notice a few techniques borrowed and treaked form the Chima legend beasts and frost mixels. Edited July 26, 2015 by woofmcmoose Quote
Ferdinando Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 I like the creatur3 and how it contrasts with the sleekness of your little craft! Good work! Quote
Dannylonglegs Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 The MANTIS craft is cute! It reminds me of the one Chief Accountant Long drove in Big Sal's hay fever MOC! Also, the dragon is awesome! Very intimidating! ~Insectoid Aristocrat Quote
mccoyed Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 Very cute ship and very intimidating creature. I love that it only has one eye. Quote
LittleJohn Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 Excellent ship, and great job on the creature! I love how poseable he looks Quote
Blackhawk STX Posted July 26, 2015 Posted July 26, 2015 Now that's something that'll make a pilot mess his pants! Neat little ship. The dragon came out well, too. Good job all around! And I did pick up on the Firefly reference... Quote
SpacerSteve Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Very neat! That creature looks very familiar and very alien. Great first build for MANTIS! Quote
robuko Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Nice series of shots, the little bubble craft is very swooshable and the articulation on the dragon is great. Quote
shmails Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Neat little ship and I really like all the action you had in the story. Quote
pombe Posted July 27, 2015 Posted July 27, 2015 Great ship and great flying alien predator! Such dynamic scenes and exciting story! I would be scared, too!!! Quote
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