[M4-24 Sabine’s Paint] The Ungraceful Exit

[n1majneb]

Introducing Keeto Ranj and his ship, 'The Ungraceful Exit'

The glow of the thrusters through the tunnel were visible before the report of the engines could be heard by the crowds watching the racing snub fighters, the Ungraceful Exit leading the charge.
Keeto’s chances were written off before he’d even fired up the Fusial thrust engines of his reworked A-6 Interceptor. As he reached the crowds, he could see the surprise of the faces as he’d left the competition a good distance behind, flying low over the subterranean river the Ungraceful Exit was trailed by the wake, the white water pushing him ever forward.
Was the win important? No, but the notoriety that if you wanted small, nimble and fast for your job; then you would do no better than The Ungraceful Exit was everything - because it costs to keep a ship outrunning the Empire at every turn...

A throwback to the last days of Republic, Keeto recovered the A-6 Interceptor from a scrapyard in the outer rim. Fully re-outfitting with two recovered sub-light Engines and Hyperdrive Keeto wanted his new ship to be noticed and so outfitted it in a Flame Yellow livery. In a Galaxy of shades of grey, Keeto had a flare for the extravagance and wanted his ship to stand out…

 

My entry for the May 4th contest, the ship is my reworking of the deep cut ship the A-6 Interceptor from the twilight days of the Galactic republic, with modernised parts for the days of surviving Empire. I was keen to stray away from TIE's and X, Y etc Wings and took to researching the wealth of ships featured in the Expanded Universe (Old and New)
Armed with 2 x laser cannons for aerial combat and two blasters mounted under the cheeks for low level strafing of targets, finally we have a single Proton Torpedo system situated at the front of the ship.
This ship is ready for any excursion.

On the twin nacelle's can be found the ship's sensor array providing all information Keeto could ever need to stay one step ahead of the Empire.
Finally, below the twin angled engines, can be found a removable storage compartment nestled in between the twin landing struts for a smugglers cargo or the picnic hamper for those weekends away in the Unknown Regions...

Thanks for looking, 
Further imagery:
 

Spoiler

The Ungraceful Exit

I do like a challenge, I took the core of the A6 Interceptor and reworked the Engines thinking how could this have been modified to escape the Empire and avoid those registration codes required? 
I kept the core of the Starfighter very similar to the limited images I could source and changed the already short wings and, rather then curve them around the ship, reworked them in to short movable S-Foils

Front:

 

Rear:

The Hyperdrive visible as a nod to X-Wings across the Galaxy

Side (identical either side)

Here's the grey version:

 

Thanks for looking!

Thanks for looking, C and C always welcome,

Edited July 3, 2024 by n1majneb
Update image to include branding

[Max_Lego]

That's a beautiful ship! Small, but well constructed 

[n1majneb]

On 6/23/2024 at 10:45 AM, Max_Lego said:

That's a beautiful ship! Small, but well constructed 

Thank you, super pleased with how this ship came out.