Creating the A Wing

The A Wing is a simple shaped ship consisting of a cuboid with stretched out sides that is thinner at the front with a slight split in the middle. The simple shape of the ship wasn't actually easy to create as I had to make each of the pieces from different shapes that were cut either using cut tools or using booleans to cut shapes.

I thought to create the front of the ship first, cutting the split was easy work as was splitting a cylinder and separating the two objects that had come from the separation.

Adding a few smaller shapes and cutting some cylinders to create the exhaust design that is unique to the A Wing as it has a separation that is held together by fins.

Adding the fins was made easy by cutting into a rectangle several times to create an arc shape that could be cut out and faces reapplied and filled to make a smooth curve close to that of the A Wing's fin.

Canons for the A Wing are very simple in the use that they are just made of a single cylinder that is thicker in different areas and is held onto the ship by another cylinder, this is probably the easiest canon out of the Star Wars ships that I have made so far and it doesn't look too bad on the ship.

The cockpit was created by cutting a cylinder, bending the cuts to create an arched shape and cutting out the bottom of the cylinder so that it wouldn't show through the bottom of the ship, this finishes the basic design of the A Wing.

For the colours of the A Wing, I decided to go with a blue instead of the standard red that is shown on most images related to the ship.