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i need to know, how did you attatch the front at that angle

the one thing i think would make it better is to give it dropship functionality. I see the best place for that in the tail

THATS COOL

Well I'm glad you like it, but instructions will be difficult due to the fact that I have already disassembled it, and even then instructions are hard to make. But you are more than welcome to build your own and use it for your story :)

Hi Zane I really like your SAPPHIRE and Dusk Dragon, and so I'd like to ask if you could post instructions for the Sapphire because I would like to use it in a sci-fi trilogy story that I will post soon. Thanks

Great shape and design! I love your ships!

I have looked at most of your creations and they are all awesome

I don't know what dusk dragon is... but alas who cares... again nice attention to detail, especially the weapons.

OK after seeing your Dusk Dragon I had to come and see the Sapphire. This is a really nice looking ship. I really like all the features on it. The weapon systems look great.

Your creations are inspirational. 5/5

Certainly has that vulture feel to it. The Blue accent really works well with the dark bley. I always like how you use those wheel well pieces.

Awesome ships, looks really simple but obviosuly isn't! Keep it up!

Awesome. I like the side mortars.

I love this model. I like the design very much.

Amazing! Simply amazing! Smooth and studless, yet with a rough power that can't be beaten.

Isn't this the second motd? The same ship? congrats.

Awesome! Congrats!

Congrats on MOTD!

Hmmm...It looks like a Halo pelican kind of:)

Very nice ship. Good shape, and design.

awesome ship, i feel sorry for those poor mantainence men.

Wow, this is like the third or fourth MOC that's gotten MOTD that I've already commented on! Congrats again on a build well done, and congrats on MOTD this time around too!

I love it and really like the grayscale mixed with blue. Ace. Keep up the good work!!!!!

Excellent job mate, good looking ship. That last pic and comment is funny :)

wow..... great job!!!!

Great shape and colour work! I'm impressed!

Amazing! This is spectacular!

Nice little blue line on the sides it gives the ship a good look.

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This is great! I love all the angles, and especially the little mortar tubes on the sides!

This is slick. Yo, but where is everyone getting the dark grey bricks?

Wow, this is great. Let those trapped maintenance men rest in peace.

Yeah... most of my MOCs lack color entirely so i wanted to have a little bit of non grey scale in there

Great work! It's very smooth and cool with distinct Dawn Forge styling. I can't help but feel that the blue stripes should have been light bley, though.

Very sleek design, almost to where you can't tell it's lego.

Wow, very nice, clean design.

Love the detail great job

Sleek dude... xD

I think your buddy icon does a good enough job of that... haha

Awesome build! :D i cant express how cool i think this is

Indeed, the inspiration is apparent. Another beautiful work. Completely different from your others, yet your styling is unmistakable. Excellent piece.

That is really cool, I just love those black turrets that are there, i suggest that you make a ship with the same features like the blue, and the weapons, that can carry those ships, like the pelican can carry a warthog, but u might not have enough grey

WOW WOW WOW THIS IS AMAZING ITS JUST SO CREATIVE

its a lego marvle

Nice and beefy. but with some slick angles and nice color striping.~H

Zane, this is really a beautiful build. You have gone to great lengths to make sure it looks like all of the detail is well integrated as a whole. Nice simple backstory rather than a novel. Your color scheme is sweet too. Regards, Eric.

Amazing! The front of this really caught my eye.

Wow!

Now that is impressive!

Nice build here! Those blue stripes are a great touch. Awesome!

Go for it! the more, the merrier :)

Nice design with great details. The color scheme with blue areas makes it even more interesting.

Excellent design and grebbling!

I like this. It's a very compact design, but not in a way that's lacking anything; if anything, the awesome attention to detail ensures that this ship has more to it than many ships I've seen twice its size. Good job.

Amazing work. An absolutely beautiful moc. Great job! Would you mind if I used this general design for a smaller, similar platform, like as an escort/ accompaniment to your ship? Because I'm about to make a dawn forge moc anyway, and this is really cool. So is that ok?

I like how you made it studless. check this out and tell me if you like it. http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/244435

it,s awsome

wow.....this is .....AMAZING 5 stars!!!!

Can you please make instructions?

yeah it's definitely my favorite theme, you can always start small though :)

That is a fine ship!

Well you know what they say about maintenance men. You can't kill them and then stuff their caracsses in a hold to just one! Anyway this is a death dealing work of art. I would love to do some Dawn Forge myself but I don't have nearly the amount of grey to pull it off. I guess I'll have to stick to other genres for the time being.

awesome

WOW! Its perfect! I like the thrusters on the bottom. Great job!

All the angles are done very nicely, and I especially like the bottom thrusters.

Awesome man. Really Cool

Thanks for the comments everyone! I'm happy you enjoy it. To be honest, I really wanted to have a second pilot, and I could have included him but I only had one of those blue visors... haha

Beautiful ship here. Detailing with blue was a good choice and the weapons are wonderfully designed. Though it seeme to me that this craft would benefit from having a copilot/gunner.

nicely designed and nice combonation of ideas.

Best. Ship. Ever. Period.

This is totally the kind of assault ship that I adore - I like it a lot, nice work.

to cool for school

Yeah, NICE! This really has that blocky "plated" kind of feel that BK's Dawn Forge series has - you've definitely done justice to the theme with this one. Good design, clean build, nice color placement - well done!

Incredible build, looks fantastic.

This is awesome!!

The only word that can describe this is "pristine"! Exceptional work!

Another AWESOME Dawn Forge creation from Mr. Zane Housten!

Thanks for the comments everyone! umm long story short i attached some studs into a pair of technic bricks and just rotated it, I barely had room to pull that off but it works :)

Very nice shape. Great mileage out of minimal greebling. And, again, liking the visuals of those colored bands. They are well placed to accent the shaping.

I like those blue stripes

Great Design, love the colors.Great MOC overall.

Great looking gunship man! Beautiful execution, my favorite details are the rear turrets and the variable angled VTOL thruster. Bravo sir!

Now THAT is legit. I'll add you as a favorite builder now. I love the c-ckpit area, and those turrets on the rear wings are awesome, reminds me of those turrets on that big shuttle from Avatar. PLEASE keep building stuff like this!

Nice ship. >Eric

Love the turrets. How did you get the rings around the base of the turrets to go on a slant with the shape of the wing?

Hot Dam! That is one sexy looking craft there!

This one feels genuinely real, which is pretty hard to cultivate in plastic. Well done.

the guns,the color and everything in it is just beautiful!great work

Incredible...kinda nice someone is tackling this amazing them by the air!

beautiful i love everything about it nice trim color

wow those details are incredible!