ceokhan

DorothyDione

Oh.. my .. God .. I love Dane Cook. If I was gay, he would totally do it for me...

Acemonster

guypatsy

:: And the heavens opened up and we could barely make out a face in the clouds. Yes, God was watching. And then, a boom from above ...

The sky darkened, flashes of light became more intense ...A bolt erupted from the darkness and struck down dr1chert ::

TFSU loser. If you're so worried about where some bum who spent his life savings on a stripper in Vegas will sleep tonight, stop taking the time to register and post on the interwebz and go build him a house...

Acemonster

TheFlowerAuthority.com

dr1chert

After all, doing something like this is really just about the fun involved. Kudos to them!

priznat

brotaku

900hp

For the naysayers of wood, yes, aerospace stoped using wood a while back, but as long as you aren't carrying much weight, and as long as you aren't traveling at the speed of sound, then wood is perfectly fine and more than strong enough to support a proper airframe.

Hell, MOST of the WWI aircraft were wood with fabric coverings. And though I can't remember the name of it, I could have sworn I've seen a history channel thing on our military using a huge wooden C130 type cargo plane at one time because metal was in short supply. They were massive and held together fine.

The only reason to dump wood as a medium (especially a hobby builder on a budget) is if you want to surpass certain speed barriers and/or cargo capacities.

archaic0

Good luck, guys... but call me back when a Mk III or Mk IV version has throttleable liquid-fuel engines and/or lands on a runway. That would be *major* dream material.

By the way, for the people coming over from /. - the login/registration JavaScript doesn't work in Firefox; you'll need Opera (or presumably Internet Exploder).

jdickey

Find one X wing that did not look dirty, worn, or slightly damaged. That was the style that George Lucas was looking for. Things were supposed to look "used". Remember, "it was a period of civil war".

usa1

gundamsdontkillpeople

dna

The Lunar Module, on the other hand, only ever flew in space (and was inside a shroud during launch). That's why you never see any weathering in photos or on models. And that's why the Discovery had no visible weathering.

It's all about the role of the vehicle. A good modeler will know this.

Buran

The space shuttle flies, right?

Buran

Wedge is the pilot.

Oneon1isto

Also, making sure the 4 rockets are sync'ed up is a lot more complicated than "strapping a rocket to a brick". I suppose if they can modulate and control each individual rocket, they can actually steer it (in theory).

This project looks awesome nonetheless.

davemak

ibelli

globel

Edge of Blade

second, lets not get stuck into being pedantic about if it is really "flying"

and finally, yes, lets hope it launches fine, opens its xwings in all of its glory, then explodes into itty bitty bits all captured in HD.

Great project guys, looking forward to the video.

iamausername

Now let's see one Full Scale... [oh, and I want a ride on it when you do..]

ideaman2020

beccamanns_theotherwhitemeat

ElCabong

tinyhands

Ever watch CSPAN?

Fzzt

imaria

wood is a very strong material. actually new composite materials are kind of like 'artificial' wood. The reason wood was abandoned by the aerospace industry was its short lifespan due to rotting.

Spaceboy

[www.ralphmcquarrie.com]

[www.ralphmcquarrie.com]

[www.ralphmcquarrie.com]

Mc Quarrie's site in particular [www.ralphmcquarrie.com] is a wonderful collection of his work. Some of the concepts for Trek and Wars where so unbelievably cool its a shame we never saw them.

Falconfire

The question is does this guy have enough mediclorines to pull this thing off the ground?

bsmknight

FP Furious_Liver, lacks independence

(p.s. i'm liking the new profile thumbnails i see here - a new trend?)

huygir

Vagabum

Vagabum

That's like almost every non-Slave Girl Leia Star Wars fantasy I've ever had coming to fruition.

May The Force be with you, intelligent and resourceful Star Wars nerds!

combolation

but hoping to get four solid rocket engines to produce the same amount of thrust over the burn
is like asking for this thing to fly like a sycamore seed.

Spaceboy

mandarin

Michai

novacthall

SSRPaulO

Dr.Danger, Shogun of Jalopnik

ninjatales

nightsky

I salute these heroes.

Windhawk

schrosa

I give it an A for effort, and it if blows up, even better. Good work.

Oh, and the scortch marks... c'mon, that added to the realism in the movies, gives this one an air of authenticity. Part of the reason the new ones sucked so bad (for me) was that none of the stuff look liked it'd been into/out of space (scortches) or seen any action.

Evil J

*sigh*

My kingdom for a hobby.

92BuickLeSabre

Yes, I know that it is not comparable, but you get the idea. To me, if it goes into the air, it's a flying machine.

Jesus Diaz

Except for the cruddy paint job, that's bogus

MENDOZA!!!!!

cjc

Mayfield

Except me of course. He's my cousin.

It works on magic.

skeeveAGAIN

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

I don't think any X-wing in history has ever looked pristine. Every model I ever made had burn marks, hell even the toy I had that had a blue button in the back that made the light on the front fire had stickers to look like scorch marks.

I am totally split whether I want this to be a stunning success or an udder failure. Not because I wish them ill-will... this project is AMAZING, but explosions are just cool.

dirtybacon

SpeneyG

jetexas

Other interesting concepts that went from one to the other

1) The original Vipers McQuarrie designed but was tossed out became Buck Rogers ship in the 80's series.

2) The Star Destroyer actaully came out of a design for the never produced Star Trek movie "Planet of the Titans" Take a Star Destroyer, shrink it, cut off the bridge, and add a saucer and two engines to it and you will get what the original redesigned ship was to look like before the original Enterprise designer Matt Jefferies stepped in and gave us a design much closer to the movie version of the Enterprise as we know it. Jafferies version of the refit can be seen at a Planet Hollywood further redesigned to look closer ot the movie version for distance shots (though the two have much differences in them)

3) Much of Ralph McQuarrie's stuff for the Star Trek movie that never was eventually turned up in Star Wars.

Falconfire

A couple of canards wouldn't hurt for atmospheric flight though.

I hope the video is posted either way.

strider_mt2k

It just amazes me how easily anyone can dismiss the hard work of other people sitting on their lazy ass, flicking through sites on the Web. Geezuss.

Jesus Diaz

for making this out from scratch they are doing a great job

Angus

halloweenjack

Also, why's the paint job so terribly done?

lafond66

(As if a Viper could compare to an X-Wing anyway.)

Maybe a better option would have been an Y-Wing or A-Wing.

No, they wouldn't.

strider_mt2k

Iggy

gary_slamson

LoganSix

schrosa