The Black Hole Cygnus

[ket]

Hi, New member here.

This is my first LEGO creation made in LDD. In the future I hope to make the "real thing"...

Anyway, it's a ship that, as far as I know, nobody has done before and after finish it I can understand why!

There are some details like the piping that are not 100% accurate because of the scale and the "disponible LEGO pieces"

but I'm happy with overall result.

Thanks for watching!

[Sid Sidious]

That's a nice ship! I don't see too many yellow ships. The first picture makes it look like the front articulates. Does it? Good luck building it and a stand in real life.

[ket]

Thanks for the comment!

Answering your question, no, it does not. The ship in the movie has "landing grill" in the bow made out of girders, so that is the way I found to made it out of LEGO...

[Faefrost]

It looks fantastic. The yellow plates seem to be a reasonable compromise for the vast windows of the ship. I suspect that you are going to encounter the one huge lesson that everyone learns when they go to build an LDD design in the brick. The law of Gravity. (Which thinking on it, seems strangely ironic given the subject). LDD is a great design tool. But it does not simulate real world stresses, such as weight or gravity, on the model. And this lack tends to pop up while building in un expected ways.

[ket]

Thanks

I totally agree with you. I know that in the "3D world" anything is possible, I'm not so sure about the integrity of the model in the "real world"

This was more of a "study" of the ship, given the way the Cygnus is designed I was curious about it's "LEGO viability"

[Wedge09]

Quite impressive work, nice :thumbup:

[DraikNova]

If this is your first LDD MOC I can't wait to see what you come up with in the future. The engines and that dome-concept (under the radar dish systems) are especially awesome.

[Rufus]

Wow, that's some work in LDD - I'm impressed with all the angles.

I love this ship - it's so clunky and spiky, for want of better words. Difficult to represent all the framework in LEGO, but you've done a good job. If I have one criticism it's that the forward domes look a little too tall to my eyes.

Here's a reference image.

[ket]

Wedge09: Thank you very much!

DraikNov: Thank you, it was a lot of work, the concept of the ship goes to Peter Ellenshaw.

Rufus: You have good eyes!, yes, they are a little too tall, that is a compromise I had to make in order to represent the whole antenna array.

In the "real" model the four upper antennas are smaller than the ones at the "base". I'm hopping to make the version 2.0 and correct some details I think can be improved.

Thanks for your comments!

[ETAV8R]

Ha I had the movie in the DVD player a week ago. Hate to say it is a scifi classic now.

[ket]

The movie is good for what it achieved.

Think of the time when the special effects were done mechanically by hand with real models, some of the miniatures were hanged with wires! no CGI, no digital composing, of course compared with today's basic composing software the whole thing looks very low quality and some times very comic.

I honestly don't know if it's a "sci-fi classic" but for sure it is one of the films that paved the way for the "Sci-fi classics".

Thanks for your comment

[kibosh]

Awesome! I loved that movie. I don't think I've ever seen this ship attempted in LEGO. Nice choice!

[ket]

Thank you

That's exactly why I chose it!

[LibraryBoy]

Excellent work! I have a lot of fond memories of that movie from when I was a kid (weird as it was... especially that ending!). I don't think about it often, but I always enjoy it when I do. Any chance you'll be making anything else. the Palomino, or one of the robots (you know you want to make Maximillian!)?

[ket]

Hi

Sorry for the delay in answering, had a lot of work and now I'm bed with a back injury.

In fact I'm doing the "Palomino", it's not going to be on the same scale of the "Cygnus" but I'm getting there.

I will work on it again as soon as I can.

About the robots I did one "Maximilian" but in a "cube dude format" you can see it at:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8249/8632636175_9aff4808e5_o.jpg

Thank you

[Sarles]

I always liked the little "Trash Can" dudes on that movie. Great work on this ship man, the only thing I can think to add to this would be the use of maybe the yellow smooth plates with black back plates might give off the mullion effect that I remember seeing on those large window areas. Brilliant model in it's execution and man would it be impressive to see that IRL.

[ket]

Thank you...

As a matter of fact I was doing an alternate "smooth" version with the plates you mention, the problem was that, at that "scale", I could not find anyway to

reproduce the lattice structure accurately.

I was thinking more of a smooth plate version with transparent stickers to simulate the lattice structure.

Also, in this version, I chose to make only the "interior" yellow hull wich in the real model is transparent and is inside a very complex girder structure.

As for making it for real, I would love to have the time but who knows, it might happen.