Doug Chang, a long time Star Wars art designer, revealed at Star Wars Celebration Orlando 2017 a sketch that Ralph McQuarrie had done as part of the sketches for the Rebel Base and ships within for A New Hope.
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It was apparently a new publically displayed sketch.
Here it is:
Here it is:
And I thought that seems cool and it triggered a memory. I think it eventually became this concept design:
It seems to be some kind of prototype design of the Y-wing?
I also found this early design as well:
I'm sure I've said it before but without McQuarrie's key influence on Star Wars, Lucas would have made a totally different movie!
And that's all I wanted to say.