After working on it for more than a year, after at least three complete redesigns of every section individually (and multiple rebuilds), I’m finally able to present… my best moc ever.

Ever since I finished my Redscout, I’ve been annoyed that the best moc I’d made was based on somebody else’s design – so it’s an immense pleasure to finally dethrone it with something of my own design (in my book my three best mocs are the Razorback, Redscout, and the Z-Fighter 2).

I’m not completely satisfied with the colourscheme, so I decided to let anyone who wished have a go at it: You can either click the picture below to get a large “paintbook”-version for hand-colouring, or you can find the MLCad-file for it on the instructions page (I’ve spend a lot of time cleaning the file up and reducing it from 220 steps to 141, so it should be much easier to follow).

And yes, this is my entry for the “Show us what you got”-contest on Flickr/Starfighters :-)

For a long time, I’ve been using MLCad to design specific details on mocs I’ve been building, but since December, I’ve begun designing complete craft directly in the program.
So far I’ve only found two of these designs worth rendering in lego (this and the black fighter crashtested a while back).

But I can definitly recommend this approach: firstly because designing is much faster in MLCad (or on paper), so generally you’ll have many more designs to choose among, once you’ve finally got the time to pick up the bricks, and secondly, you’re sure it’ll actually work, unlike the ‘vague idea that might look good’ that is the usual starting point when we design directly in lego:

Concept art mocs almost always pwns anything we can design directly in lego, but more about that later, when I’ve finished my colourscheme-investigation