Sphere

[Kikuichimonji]

So I've been wanting to build a fighter in orange and grey for ages. I just plain love orange, but never had enough pieces. After bricklinking a lot lately, I had enough to give it a shot. Too bad I didn't have the peices to use darkgrey instead of lightgray though :-/

I've had part of the engines lying around forever. I wanted to build a second one at first, but lacked the orange curved pieces to do so. Then I extended the engine and stumbled upon Jon Palmer's D-Wing. The canopy part is based of that craft. Then I combined both parts and added some detailing. Took me about 3 hours to make (minus the engine I'd been toying around with for quite some time).

The Sphere is a small recon craft that has engines underneath itself as well as at its back. This makes it a very manouverable ship, perfect when things get tight. It features 4 small missiles as well as 2 larger homing missiles. It also has two small lasers at its sides and a large, double laser underneath the cockpit.

For a recon craft, it is rather heavily armored. Earlier versions of the sphere only had the two small lasers, but many were lost in battle. The Sphere was then upgraded to its current version. It features no landing gear bit uses the double laser and belly engines to land on.

Anyway, pictures:

Front shot:

Belly:

Back:

Gallery when moderated.

This will likely be updated a couple of times, there are some things I'm not too happy with. Let me know what you think!

[Starwars4J]

I really like this, but I agree, you should take awhile and bricklink up enough dark grey X-D

Anyway, I really like it, but a few quick suggestions if you don't mind? Maybe add some more greebles to the back, and those two lasers on the bottom...maybe build your own brick-made ones? Also, don't leave the missiles exposed like that, hitting them would be an instant KO for the ship :-P

One more thing...6 missiles and four lasers for such a small ship is a bit much, don't you think? I'd stick to four missiles and two lasers at most. Just remember, just because that many missiles are SHOWING doesn't mean it only carries four missiles...it only means it has 4 launchers ;-) I'd much rather see two missile launchers and a cargo of say...10 missiles to be honest.

Can't wait to see this baby progress!

[Kikuichimonji]

I did a Peeron check this morning, and luckily, all of the parts I used in lightgray exist in darkgray :-D

I'll get them someday and update it to darkorange. Expect more 'normal' updates somewhere in the upcoming weeks.

[KimT]

Fantastic work *y*

I can't wait to see it in dark grey.

I really like the way you designed it. It's good to see a fighter that isn't shaped like "ordinary" jets.

Keep up the good work

KimT

[JoeMI6]

That's very good Kiku, I like the colour scheme. It's a bit too blocky for my liking, and maybe slghtly too tall for a recon craft. However, despite my dislikings of it, i love the detail on all your models, the building techniques are great.

[Black Sparrow]

Exelent Work *y* I Like The Colors You Picked To.

[Kahgarak]

Quite good,i like the grey/orange on it.

[SuvieD]

Great greebs and a good overall shape. Colors are all working together and nothing seems out of place.

My only complaint is the cockpit size/location. It looks small and cramped but worse than that one direct hit to the very visible and unarmored cockpit area and your pilot is dead. Most fighters will not have the pilot in the very front as this is the most likely spot to take damage.

MOC on!