The details begin to flow.
About this creation
part 9 is the beginning of the end. up until now I've only added the detail that couldn't wait till later. Now is that later. I begin with the interior of the engine room.
Putting the exit hatch at the back of the room was a mistake, I see now. the chief error being that i can't fill the room too full, because this is where they'd get ready for going outside. However, I don't want it too empty, because this is the engine room! it should be full of machinery!
well, i've got the engine "wings", and after some back and forth idea throwing, I came up with something i like!

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a good shot of the engine machinery. how it works? nobody knows.
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the hatch from the inside out, the cylinders will be attached to the sublight thrusters.
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another angle that really gets a good shot of how the is being held on: the ever-wonderful half-pin.
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looking back towards the ship, a good look at the hatch itself. the hatch is a working airlock.
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the hatch close up, using the 4x4 dish from the TIE fighter.
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open, head room is not bountiful, but enough to get you in and out.
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this shows that while being on an odd axis, it still has full range of motion. note, these are the same gun design as the Josef's guns.
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