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Instructions
Build the hull of the ship, a flat base with a large square plate. Make the base of the vehicle at least 10 studs wide and about 20 studs long. This becomes the platform on which troops stand for the dropship.
Build a troop carrying interior on this platform. Make space and seats for 12 soldiers on the platform, leaving at least a one-stud border around the edge of the base. Build a centered interior wall about four bricks tall.
Attach a curved nose to the front of the vehicle. The vehicle's cockpit should be around 10 studs long, and curve from around six studs down to about two at the tip.
Assemble a back door using hinged plates. The back door should attach to the back of the ship and be about eight studs long.
Build up the walls of the vehicle using bricks around the edge of the hull and base. Make the walls of the vehicle up to three bricks high and attach curved bricks around the cockpit. At the front corners of the vehicle, use some upward-angled bricks.
Build a seat for the pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit and attach a cockpit canopy to the front of the vehicle.
Connect two one-by-six-stud bricks with Technic holes together using pairs of Technic pins. Insert a black double-connector pin into the center of the piece. Make two of these units and attach them to the shoulders of the plane, just behind the cockpit, so they hang over the walls of the plane below.
Build up the walls of the vehicle around the corners you have just installed, then build a flat roof over the top of the troop transport bay.
Build a wing roughly eight studs long by eight studs wide, with about a 45-degree angle. Place a one-by-two-stud brick about three studs from the front tip of the vehicle. Build an engine around the bottom and side of the brick. Clip a flag piece to a two-by-one-stud with a side-mounted bar. Make two of these units and attach them to the rear outside edge of the wing with a one-stud gap between them.
Repeat to make a mirror image of the first wing. Attach these both to the exposed pin on the shoulders of the plane. The black pins should hold the wings fairly rigid, but allow you to tilt and rotate them.
Place a row of two-by-two or two-by-four-stud angled bricks around the left and right edges of the vehicle. Place some three-by-two bricks behind the cockpit.
Extend the back of the vehicle by another eight to 10 studs at the center using bricks with Technic holes on the sides. Place six-stud-long extensions on either side of this, then four-stud, then three-, two-, and one-studs to make a curved rear of the vehicle.
Build two large round canisters to act as the rear engines. These should be shorter than the engines at the front of the vehicle, but about as wide. Include at least one Technic hole near (about three studs from) the front of both engines on the sides. The engines should be around four studs wide by eight studs long.
Attach the two rear engines to the tail of the vehicle using black Technic pins.
Cover the top of the vehicle in plates to make a solid top of the vehicle. Attach two more 45-degree wings to the back of the vehicle ahead of the tail-mounted engines. They should be about four studs wide.
Build a nose-mounted gun to attach just under the front of the cockpit. Attach it to some type of pivot point so that it can swing around.
Build two long pieces of landing gear which you can attach so that they flip down to below the vehicle, and fold up when in flight. Attach them to the rear of the vehicle. Attach a single wheel to the bottom of the cockpit.