Not much back story on this one, apart from a tenuous link to the Strategic Space Command universe. The basic idea has been sitting in a back corner of the idea closet for awhile-it actually springs from one of the ships in the recent
Star Wars film,
Rouge One. The boxy tandem wing transport that the rebels use in the third act of the film has always been a favorite, but I have never been one to copy when I could, ah, be inspired...
. It also helps to have a habit of picking up multiples of older kits for one set of parts, and wind up using everything but the parts you bought it for. I've picked up three of the old Frog Ju 87Gs for the 37mm Bk pods, and have yet to use a single one of them, but I've used the engines of two, the canopy of another, the tail planes someplace, and now two pairs of the wings. Had to build something to put between 'em, so here we go-
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With Star Wars as inspiration, lots of extraneous and mysterious surface details-
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Figuring a weapons fit held me up for a bit, but I settled on a couple of missile turrets on the top deck. (They're either that, or 'phased array lasers', a notion again from the SSC.
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engine exhausts came from a couple of Kotobuiya 'option parts' sets.
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more hull plating and some primer, and figuring how to mount the bridge windows-low?
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or high?
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I decided to go with the high...err...anyway, presto! Paint!
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And deep in the star dotted dark of the outer system, the tireless vigilance of the Oort Patrol Fleet continues.
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