The Advanced Naval Vessel for Intelligence and Logistics, or ANVIL line of seigebreaker craft produced by Rothana Heavy Engineering saw extremely limited use during the Clone Wars due to the tremendous expense of the onboard support systems and the complexity of the crafts revolutionary design philosophy. The systems onboard the ANVIL were operated via a pair of linked astromech droids that were hardwired permanently into the ANVILs droid sockets and shared their computational power with a further 3 onboard droid brains. These brains functioned in concert with the astromechs to provide the pilot and the squadron the ANVIL was supporting with unparalleled situational awareness on the battlefield and vital combat data interfaced directly into the pilots HUD's instantaneously throughout the battle. The ANVIL was designed to fulfill multiple roles at once, so as to better fit in with any squad in which the craft found itself, but the primary purpose of the ship was to serve as a seigebreker craft that could use the ships advanced computers and droid brains to concoct strategems for dismantling any prolonged enemy attacks and providing counter-options to enemy assets. The ship never saw wide use in the waning days of the war due primarily to the ANVIL's lack of speed if not incredible low-speed agility, but mostly due to an inherent issue in the use of multiple droids that would tend to argue incessantly over the pilots own inadequacies as observed by them during combat. The droids would regularly "borrow" the ANVILS controls and make adjustments to the ships heading and course that might save the pilot and the ship from harm without informing them and would contest if the pilot attempted to reassert control. The clone pilots to which these ships were assigned would rarely last longer than a dozen missions before they requested a transfer to a less "chatty" starship.

The Advanced Naval Vessel for Intelligence and Logistics, or ANVIL line of seigebreaker craft produced by Rothana Heavy Engineering saw extremely limited use during the Clone Wars due to the tremendous expense of the onboard support systems and the complexity of the crafts revolutionary design philosophy. The systems onboard the ANVIL were operated via a pair of linked astromech droids that were hardwired permanently into the ANVILs droid sockets and shared their computational power with a further 3 onboard droid brains. These brains functioned in concert with the astromechs to provide the pilot and the squadron the ANVIL was supporting with unparalleled situational awareness on the battlefield and vital combat data interfaced directly into the pilots HUD's instantaneously throughout the battle. The ANVIL was designed to fulfill multiple roles at once, so as to better fit in with any squad in which the craft found itself, but the primary purpose of the ship was to serve as a seigebreker craft that could use the ships advanced computers and droid brains to concoct strategems for dismantling any prolonged enemy attacks and providing counter-options to enemy assets. The ship never saw wide use in the waning days of the war due primarily to the ANVIL's lack of speed if not incredible low-speed agility, but mostly due to an inherent issue in the use of multiple droids that would tend to argue incessantly over the pilots own inadequacies as observed by them during combat. The droids would regularly "borrow" the ANVILS controls and make adjustments to the ships heading and course that might save the pilot and the ship from harm without informing them and would contest if the pilot attempted to reassert control. The clone pilots to which these ships were assigned would rarely last longer than a dozen missions before they requested a transfer to a less "chatty" starship.

The Alliance cell in the Aturi cluster known as the Irregulars was known to have discovered a single mothballed ANVIL seigebreaker in an Old Republic hangar and utilized the ship to great effect in their struggle against the Empire in that sector of space in spite of the ships quirkiness.

( I've got this beauty on the way from Alien Luxury Miniatures on shapeways, so I figured it was high time I got to stating it out. Did some table testing with it when I got home from work and tested the ability in conjunction with r2d2, r2 astromech, electronic baffle, advanced protons, ion bomb and HLC. Pretty gnarly combo to fly and a great support combo for helping out allies in higher level hotac missions where things can get hairy very quickly if you aren't careful. Hope some folks pick this thing up and give it a whirl!)

Look at the post by Barry Harker on posting unlicensed models.

Painted the ANVIL up with Tatooine Desert Squill inspired face art. Used Game Ink Almost exclusively except for the nuln oil weathering and ryza rust engine color.

The gang all together!

What is that Old Republic Fighter made of ?

if its 3D printed the surface finish is very good.....cant see any grain.

great looking collection.

All the best,

Barry.

What is that Old Republic Fighter made of ?

if its 3D printed the surface finish is very good.....cant see any grain.

great looking collection.

All the best,

Barry.

It's a 3d printed custom. I got it in the ultra-fine detail but it still had a fair bit of grain to it. Needed several layers of game ink on top of a white primer from a can then some ardcoat to smooth it out, then sanded through the ardcoat in places to give the surface that old, gritty look and applied some sepia.