Some progress on my Dune Fremen Ornithopter

Extended the wings to a size that looks better(thought still not movie accurate). designed for the new ornithopter wings to replace the helicopter rotors currently in place.

Finally found a good way to make the doors open like in the movie, rather than going the easy route and using the yellow bubble piece's hinge and them oopening outward.

Currently in the process of figuring out how to elegantly add a grey flex tube around the front of the canopy.

Still haven't decided how i want to do the tail or even more importantly, the core and wing attachment mechanism. no space for a flapping mechanism, but i have hope for a synchonized folding mechanism similar to the Atreides orni set.
This will probably require some physical testing, which requires me to sort my technic pieces. So this MOC won't be finished anytime soon, but i try to make progress where i can.

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Inspired by concept art by artist OzArt212. I loved the shape and color blocking. Obviously I took some liberties with the design, but I still hope I did it proud.

Massive thanks to Nick Trotta for his help with the nose section. Specifically making the tapered side 'supports' flush with the fuselage.

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Hey there!

Some of you might have seen this build already at Legoworld Utrecht last month, but now I finally found the time and energy to take the photo's.

This one was quite an interesting build as the composition is quite different compared to the usual 'buildings' stuff I make. This time the center is 'empty' but still the main focus of the build where it all started.

It was quite tricky to really capture the colours in the digital edit, but I am quite pleased how this one turned out :)

Oh, and no, this doesn't resemble a specific DnD area, but I have played some Baldur's Gate 3, so there sure is a lot of inspiration from that world.

Anyway, that's is for this one; I will be back for some Brickscalibur stuff soon!

~Jaap

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Might try and do a twin-seater “Sparka” variant next

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Quickly assembled frontier forts trolls throw up on newly 'acquired' territories to ensue their holdings stay held XD

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