Teladi Kea (X3 AP, X-Universe) - low poly edition

[zathros]

I love the little dude you had next to the model. If there was some way you could show his silhouette in a window, that would be so awesome. That little guy gave such a great sense of scale. I felt sorry that he and his ship was captured by the huge hand monster that appeared a few pictures later.

 

[ElMäx]

I love the little dude you had next to the model. If there was some way you could show his silhouette in a window, that would be so awesome. That little guy gave such a great sense of scale. I felt sorry that he and his ship was captured by the huge hand monster that appeared a few pictures later.

you are talking about the picture from the open boarding ramp? yeah, I was playing with the thought of a cockpit, to be able to open the front and reveal a cockpit. but that is crazy on that scale First I have to design a functioning boarding ramp and that elevator. that would be cool. AND before that I need the landing legs.

But I can try to draw silhouette on the cockpit windows. Unfortunately the illusion will break down as soon as you move relative to the model

 

[ElMäx]

Struggling with the landing gear. I am a layman here. Just guessing and looking up landing gear in aeronautics and sf spaceship.

I have come up with this idea but can somebody here on this forum help me or give me hints about that matter?

As you can see I need in front of the front leg (that is situated under the mid point of the whole ship length) at least 2m space to fit the cargo elevator underneath.
I came up with the use of a large piston that rotates up to 45° (or more, depending on the ground) down, the piston extends. It is also pushed and stabilized by a second piston that is situated above the landing leg as you can see in the concept sketch in the lower right corner.

Does that make sense?
For clarification: Of course I will model a static leg that can be attached to the belly of the model. No actual working gear

EDIT:
tested the first prototype of front leg with toothpick and my small magnets

first test. humans are fitting underneath, wookies not. but it is x-universe, not star wars and it is a teladi ship. Teladi are bit smaller than humans. And if need the landig legs probably could extent a bit more, also to compensate uneven terrain

EDIT#2:

hind legs have to be approximatly 1mm shorter. my small magnets are still big for that scale. hard to model pistons and stuff with them attached. I will design a variant with a paper tab to plug it into the belly, like @Revell-Fan did with the colonial viper

 

[mijob]

I like your idea to attach the landing gear with the magnets under the belly.

 

[ElMäx]

I like your idea to attach the landing gear with the magnets under the belly.

The magnet method has one flaw (aside from the size):
They rotate. Even with two magnets in a row they still rotate a bit and therefore you have to be careful while putting the model on the floor and still keep the alignment.

 

[ElMäx]

Still test model #3.
I ripped off the metal sheets for the magnetic landing legs and designed "plug-in" legs as @Revell-Fan did with his Viper mk1.

I have just hand drawn the shapes and textures here to try out. And did the cuts in the hull not measuring but more eyeballing

Printed out and cut precisely it will look much better on that scale than the method with the magnets.

 

[mijob]

Yes this is the way....

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

I really like how this project is progressing.