:) Cheers Oran, mate I think this is my personal fave of an of the fighters I have ever made. This thing just looked so cool. I still have the main body of it in tact in my cupboard so many years on, lol...

Very nice ship Parrington! Lots of interesting part usage!

This one is really amazing! Lots of engines lots of guns my kind of fighter. Excellent!

I do like this...a lot! The engines are the true gem of this MOC! Mmmm dog fight vs. the Raven?

totally, that's always a fun storyline for sure, thanx mate, this is my favorite fighter to be honest, it just seems to look cool from every angle if I dare say so myself ;) Cheers mate...

Wow... thats all I can say for the moment.

Always glad to see a company return from the ash heap of history and create a phoenix like this -- sweet!

Really cool build! I agree it looks like the SR-71 was a source of inspiration for this build :-)

Awesome! :D

Awesome! :D

This fighter is really great: I love the colour, makes it more agressive!

hehe, cheers mate, go for it, and if it is similar, do add it to the GAIA group, love to see it, cheers...

You have inspired me to build something like this for my female Metal Legion pilot. I will make some what of a version like this. Cheers mate!!!

I do have a bomber in the works which should be quite fun when finished, cheers mate...

hehe, nicely played mate, and no- I am no King by any stretch, but thankyou for taking the time with your expansive comments, and for your levity with your briefer fun comments.

Very "Sharp" looking , great shape to the fighter, looks like a blackbird from way back when truthfully. Great looking aricraft man, hope there's more to come, and soon!

will do mate, cheers for lookin...

I'm in.

Great fighter ! A little bit "too black" for my taste, but still very nice. You should take more pictures of the details you mentionned in a comment below (bomb bay, landing gears...).

Well, like you told me earlier, you've hit a home run with this one (or does a baseball cliche even make sense at this point)! First off I will build another fighter for you and GAIA at some point. Second, I have decided to torment myself again by joining the 2011 MocAthalon. Currently my group "The Leftovers" (cute name huh?) consists of myself and Sean Flynn. We need 5 members and can have one more AFOL as per the rules. So I was wondering if you consider being part of our motley bunch. If you don't have the time or care for this type of contest I fully understand. Officially the contest is in sign-up phase and hasn't started yet. Let me know what you think.

hehe, cheers dude!

Perfect!

Thanks mate. Yeh, I figure why let down a cool build with poor pres. Man, those long pieces were just made for air intakes if you ask me. I wonder why I haven't seen them much used as such? Cheers for the words of wisdom mate...

Certainly one of your best fighters mate. The shapes really work throughout - love the integration of those looooong black slopes into the engine intakes. Of course it's presented really well too - I've become used to seeing starfield backdrops but yours are always tight and interesting with engine flares and the heat effect in the overhead shot too. Good job.

Absolutely mate! If you enlarge the overhead pic, you'll see the hinging I have used. The landing gears retract also, and there is a bomb door underneath, and an engine boot style arrangement at the rear. I may get a chance to take some photos of these features sometime. Cheers for looking!

Nice plane and Nice photo! BTW, can the cockpit open?

hehe, such flattery... Well thanxs my good LEGO friend, I am very happy to hear such a thing. I believe the entire purpose of art, be it music, painting, or Mocs, is to connect with other people and stir a reaction. I am thrilled to have been of inspiration, and I sincerly look forwards to seeing this grand ship of yours to come. Like you, I just love this stuff...

better, and better, parr! this is so good looking, that it reminds me both the blackbird, and firefox! an excellent clint eastwood movie, that, unfortunately i can t find anywhere! BE THE FIRST TO KNOW; that as you where the one who inspired my first 5 wide, [the limo] you also inspired my next big creation, a spaceship with cargo, [vehicles] it s going to be made, and based upon 3 star destroyers midi-scale! as for your fighter, it s a masterpiece! excellent work parr!

Always have time for people who rate my work mate...cheers...

this is beast! check this out if you have the time http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/252073

Thanx chief. What are you up to these days...

Among your best so far :)

hehe, yeh I can see that mix in there now that you mention it. Obviously I am subconciously inspired by the Blackbird and WW2 planes. Good to hear from you buddy...

Thanx mate, yeh, problem is those chumps at TLG wouldn't know a good space set these days if it came down from the moon and landed on them! Cheers for looking buddy!

Parrington, this is a gorgeous build. It looks like a hybrid SR-71/F-22A kinda thing. It looks much bigger than it actually is too. Regards, Eric.

That is so good that they should make it as a set for LEGO.

cheers man, that angle is the beastiest for sure..

hehe, cheers, looks kind of like somthing the Germans might have come up with given afew more years in the big one... Note the still central cocpit, and blockish fuselage, but the inevitable move towards swept back wings for in greater speed. O.K, I'm getting carried away... But I love this look, wish it had been done!

Love the cockpit and your landing gear.

Very nice looking craft!

Yeh, I've been watching Suprnatural alot recently, perhaps I have been inspired by their 67 chevy, in my own lets build a plane/space fighter! lol... Cheers mate.

hehe, cheers mate, yeh thought I'd present Greek girl for a change!

This build is a beauty!! Love the lines of her!

It's a thing of beauty especially in black! Hot pilot, too!

wik this is amzing as

This looks so much like the SR-71, probably why I love it so much! Awesome job, so sleek! -Ultra

hehe, i'll add it sometime this week then, you've twisted my arm, lol... Long Live GAIA!

Hmmm, I see what you mean. All the SNOT fanatics would die immediately. I don´t care about the studs, since your Euro fighters look awesome, studs showing or not. Oh, and I don´have to click the links in order to compare the three fighters!

hehe, I was going to do just that, but then I realised the others were studs showing builds and figured it would look not so good? Glad you dig this thing, it's a personal best for me I'd say... Cheers!

Hehe, Chris, yup those wings just really worked, and the six cannons up front were just a pleasure to the eye. I was originally just gonna do 2, but then thankfully I got carried away!

Hehe, you got that right!

WOW incredible ! my favorite G.A.I.A. fighter ! very very very goooood creation . =D please check out my creation !

Well since Barto stole my joke... Great work man! I love the wing design and the big guns up front! A really solid and stylish piece of work. ~ Chris.

Got some good heft around the guns and the engines, while the wings give it a nice sleek predatory look, especially on the close-up with M.Demurtas. Killer design!

Black and racy! I guess you like your fighters just like your women, eh? Awesome!

cool!

Black and dangerous, excellent.

Parrington, that thing is a sleek, deadly, heavily armed, heavily armored, and super-fast, neo-retro BEAST! Sometimes, as was said in the movie called "Meet the Robinsons," it doesn't matter if you fail; all that matters is that you keep moving forward. Apparently, the people from that company that came back from being essentially dead took that message to heart and had a comeback story for the ages of space craft aviation. Perhaps this surprise will lead them to make even better space craft, hovertanks, and such in the future, too? Anyway, if there is a MOC of the Day award on MOC Pages, then your MOC build would definitely be a winner, sir. You deserve it, Parrington. This is your best MOC build ever!

Rad ship, rad photo editing.

Oooh, but that's a nice one. Ouch! Also kind of reminds me of an SR-71 Blackbird, sort of.

Now that's a thing of beauty. The entire engine assembly is top rate, and the overall feel screams "Bloody Murder" to anything that stands in its way. I would imagine the black colorscheme would make enemy pilots hard pressed to keep visual contact with this lethal opponent. Long Live GAIA!

look realy great i like the design ,,, is amazing

Nice Design. Would love to see it in a space battle. Great photoshop work!

I´m sorry for being absent so long. Dude, what a beautiful fighter! What an intimidating design. The Euros have taken their best design to absolute perfection. You should add a pic with all three versions together, so the evolutionary process could be seen more easily. Just a guess. Long live G.A.I.A.!

Bloody marvelous and I'm not even British! You've done a helluva job on this black beauty. I especially like how you snuck the landing gear pics in at the end. It's good to see at least one of us, namely you, can build a MOC that draws praise from the masses.

cheers...

sweet!

nice nacelles

I love it! It looks great.

hehe, cheers, I might just agree, between this and the Falcon I'd say...

Cheers John, I am always happy to see you comment on one of my fighters, as yours are always awesome...

Hou hou hou whota??!!! woow this is awesome, dark and dangerous, I think this is your best fighter I've seen so far. well done!!

Nice design and presentation : I like that.

Not only dust but also fingerprints, molecules, atoms, quarks ... I know the problem. But Dave is right: Especially pics like the one with the 5 engaged thrusters should be shot on black when later you want to put them on a black background again, because the bricks always reflects their ambiance. But hey, before I forget: Wonderful design.

Nicely done, my friend. Swoosh!!!~H

Cheers dude, yeh, it's real tricky, atleast this time I took the time to clean the dust away with a cloth. Black shows every bit of dust otherwise!

Hey Leda! It's a hot little number hey?

Sweet fighter! I love the sleek round shape, it looks like a neo-retro design. Black is tricky to photograph, but I find a bright light and light backdrop work good. Dave Kaleta told me shooting black on black works good aswell, but I've never tried that.

Sleek and saucy!

Thanx buddy, yeh this thing has a sweet shape to it...Black is tricky, but I hope these pics worked.

Nice! Looks wicked fast. Black was a good choice.