A/SF-01 B Wing Starfighter

The rebel B-Wing is my favorite Star Wars ship, even though it gets only a few seconds of screen time in the original trilogy. The unusual shape is what makes it memorable to me, and it's also what makes it a challenge to render in LEGO form.My B-Wing MOC has evolved during the last 4 years, and it went through at least 3 significantly different iterations while I experimented with techniques to achieve what I thought were the essential details. I'm very proud of this model, as it was designed pretty much from scratch.With the B-Wing, as with most of my MOCs, I strived for a balance between fidelity to the original material and respect to the characteristics of a LEGO toy. This is not meant to be a "UCS" type of model, and is significantly smaller than most of the MOCs of the ship I've seen on the web. It's still "minifig scale", or maybe I should say it's "play scale", as it scales very well to my X-Wing MOC, which is almost the same size as set 75301.Features of this MOC include the