Now this is what I have been working on the last couple of days, first I went into the past with the Nimbus V-wing, this time I have gone into the future with this design. Yes it's not the design I said a few posts ago that I was going to work on, motivation is to blame here.
I'll admit, I have never been a fan of the E-wing, from the Expanded Universe. I have always felt it was a brick with wings. It was horrible and a poor replacement to the highly popular and beloved X-wing in my opinion. Well fans who thought as I do have re-designed the E-wing into something that deserves respect and fills the role of the X-wing successor and does it justice. Being rather fond of the design I decided to have a crack at it and here is the result.
Unlike the official size of 11 meters this one turned out to be about 2 meters longer than the X-wing, so with the X-wing being 16 meters, that makes the E-wing 18 meters.
With the texturing I tried to incorporate as much X-wing as I could get away with, plus my own artistic licence for parts. Being that the E-wing was built by the X-wing designers, having founded their own company after the Battle of Endor, and that the E-wing is the X-wing successor I felt it made sense. I am also unsure if I should keep the Droid above like it is in the images below or have the cockpit section for it like the original design. I welcome opinions on this. Feels a bit exposed up there, much like on the Y-wing.
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