Thanks for the support, let's have fun with this. Let's talk about the Firefly (in general), and what you want to do with your ship.
Check out these two ships. The neck and head of the box art ship on the series box set is....
Not like the original design, the box picture shows a shorter looking fuselage.
...off compared to the classic Firefly class ship.
If they did the rendering for the box all by themselves, as an artist they did a fantastic job.
I like the running lights and the bright yellow bulbous rear with the flaps open.
So, what I'm going to do with my ship, is light the heck out of it.
I'm going to try to even find little rotating beacons, and use those for effect.
I like the "Train Job" set up with a nice train set and mountains and stuff, and also the landing gear retracting up into the ship manually is important to me. I'll do a cam that mounts to the hull via the base ply that makes the cargo area floor and stiffens the ship and landing gear mounting possibilities..
Mounting the wings will be plug in, rods in tubes, and the side engines rotate the way I'm casting them.
Locking the engine vert or horiz will be by manual with a pin or catch.
It would be cool if the engines clicked into place, like a ball bearing catch.
The spinning core rides on the central cylinder like thorax that you can see in the pics.
I'll go into my plan on making that rotating lighted core later.
I invite creative and interesting comments, thanks,
Ron
