Something smells fishy here...

[IVhorseman]

wonder if that cockpit can be made with legos?

i've wondered that before too. i recognize every piece except for that big red circle, and the blue things that make up what i believe to be the windows.

[Almighty Benny]

I'm pretty sure the windows are made up of and but I've never seen that red circle before either.

[IVhorseman]

I'm pretty sure the windows are made up of and but I've never seen that red circle before either.

wow, that they are! i totally never would have seen that before, either. as a side note, mike, you did an excellent job showing how those would look from a minifig's perspective (since we're too huge to fit in a lego cockpit and wouldn't be able to catch those angles and interior detail at ALL).

[Rayhawk]

That's how I paid the bills for five years. You'd be surprised how fast you learn stuff like that when you need to do it in order to eat.

I'm almost sure I based that red circle on an actual element, but I'm not sure that it's one I actually have myself. I saw it in somebody else's model and thought "I could totally use that in a cockpit."

[Captain Nomouth]

I haven't seen that piece before either, I don't think it exists...

EDIT: unless it's based on this piece:

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Znap Beam 1/2 Circle Radius

[IVhorseman]

I'm almost sure I based that red circle on an actual element, but I'm not sure that it's one I actually have myself.

to be honest, the circle DID always look like a lego piece I'd seen, but can't for the life of me place where it's from. maybe one of the odd technic bionicle predecessors had something along these lines.

[Rayhawk]

Aha, I bet it was this piece from the basketball and Quidditch sets:



Since I didn't have one myself at the time I got the interior detailing wrong. But I saw somebody use them as propeller casings on a steampunk ship and that's what gave me the idea.

[piltogg]

huh, I sparked a whole page hehehe

now I'm wondering what the outside of this ship looks like

(I smell a mini-contest)

[MicVash]

I never noticed this but he's actually flying on his side in the air. The landscape out of his window is at a different angle. Genious.

[IVhorseman]

if you'll notice, he's also got a burning engine and he's got a spinning smoke trail. the story is obvious.

[Rayhawk]

In art school they call that "second read." The stuff you notice right off the bat, like the fact that he's flying a plane and the steering wheel's come off, is "first read." I like to hide funny stuff in the parts of the picture you only notice after staring at the first-read stuff for a while.

[IVhorseman]

so in this case, random sushi is third or fourth read, correct?

[MicVash]

so in this case, random sushi is third or fourth read, correct?

Lol.

But I think he's got sushi because it alludes to the japanese and their planes back in WWII were called Zeroes and he's about to go to zero alltitude.

[doodstormer]

Psh, he obviously has sushi because the ninja secretly swapped out his repair tools with fish and shrimp, thus screwing the pilot. Unless the pilot performs a heroic feat and fixes the steering wheel with chopsticks and sushi.

[Rody]

which he obviously will, that rice is surprisingly sticky.