not sure about the placement of that top gun but the rest is coming along nicely. the front is giving me kind of a defiant vibe. but it looks great. guessing that is the bridge in the nose section.
Nice, love the way you've gone with the familiar Lambda Shuttle style cockpit area type of shape and then done something completely different with it to bring home the scale of the thing. Nice touch.
I think the bottom of the elevator panel should have a row of small landing legs along each side to account for any minor terrain irregularities. Sort of like the main landing gear of the Antonov AN-225
Nice, so you have a shedload of landing gear pads underneath that I gather will all be able to be independently adjusted to compensate for any minor variations in the terrain below as it sets down in an LZ? I gather all the radiator vents are there to cool the powerful motors that extend the boarding ramp/lift the ship above it? Nice bit of design.
Awesome, really coming together nicely, interesting details on the door, are those individual doors for each walker in addition to the overall ramp? Or have you just done away with that idea and replaced it with individual doors/ramps?
^No, just something to break up the surface. The whole door moves down as one unit still. The hatches on the upper door are separate hatches though, for small repulsorlift and spacetrooper egress, etc.
Fractal, I just spotted your interview in the Art of Star Wars magazine (which I also bought). If I didn't know better, I'd swear you'd been holding out on us with a few of the images in it, like the one on the inside back cover). Also it makes me near giggle (and as a guy, I hate giggling) at the fact, we in this thread got to see a good chunk of those images YEARS prior to anyone else seeing them. And I have to say, knowing this will sound like its pandering to your ego, but: OMG, you're in the same artbook as Ralph Quarrie's work!!
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Just curious, but would the two rectangles on the sides happen to be that can fold down to allow speeder bikes to deploy from above the AT-ATs / AT-SPs?
Fractal, I just spotted your interview in the Art of Star Wars magazine (which I also bought). If I didn't know better, I'd swear you'd been holding out on us with a few of the images in it, like the one on the inside back cover). Also it makes me near giggle (and as a guy, I hate giggling) at the fact, we in this thread got to see a good chunk of those images YEARS prior to anyone else seeing them. And I have to say, knowing this will sound like its pandering to your ego, but: OMG, you're in the same artbook as Ralph Quarrie's work!!
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Just curious, but would the two rectangles on the sides happen to be that can fold down to allow speeder bikes to deploy from above the AT-ATs / AT-SPs?
It was a pleasant surprise to be featured And yeah, hell yes, sharing a book with McQuarrie!
The hatches on the upper door are separately opening, and yes, it's to let out bikes and stuff like spacetroopers without having to open the big hatch.
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Well Flattening would be the first stage. Letting the area cool would be next.
Loving the position of the bridge on the nose there Fractal. Will you be able to fit some At-AT's in there?
That thing can even swallow six or eight Y-85 Titan dropships!
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I think Sponge is Kuat Drive Yards...
Excellent work as ever.
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Just curious, but would the two rectangles on the sides happen to be that can fold down to allow speeder bikes to deploy from above the AT-ATs / AT-SPs?
It was a pleasant surprise to be featured
The hatches on the upper door are separately opening, and yes, it's to let out bikes and stuff like spacetroopers without having to open the big hatch.
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