After seeing the photos of 5971 Gold Heist, and feeling a little dissapointed with the official model, I made this.

It's meant to be a civilian cargo lifting vehicle, ubiquitous spaceport utility vehicle often used in loading larger cargo ships.

And of course most pirate fleets have a few of these on hand for flying off with loot...

The swiveling VTOL engines are the most obvious reference to the original.

The awkward front engines and wings have been reduced to simple thrusters for a more streamlined appearance.

The canopy has been made airtight.

And instead of the gold safe dropping mechanism it has a grabber arm for picking up more general items...

I'm really happy with the landing skids.

see LDD link here.

Edited May 25, 200915 yr by xenologer

Nice! The cockpit is a little blocky, and it doesn't look much like the original, but it's still great!

Nice! I like how you carried out the idea you'd mentioned earlier in the review... Very good, especially for LDD... It is a bit blocky but it gives it that good classic civilian look. The only suggestion I could make is to find something to fill in those holes in the technic beams. I haven't done much on LDD so I couldn't suggest a particular way, but it seems like that would be the last gripe about the original model that hasn't been fixed here.

Again, great work!