ANH Red Y... kit

joewhite

Wow, it almost felt like I should have paid to view those instructions...thats how good they are!

There is no second-class anywhere to be seen with this whole project! Well done, fellas, top of the line!!!

Joe

Jedi Dade

Me too... My Kit arrived a couple of days ago. I waited to post since i was unsure about the delivery of this kit until the backlog was cleared...

I gotta say its beautiful... well packed and not a bubble to be found... I've gotten a lot of awesome kits over the years... this one just feel special - its probably as close as we're likely to get to being at ILM in 1976 when they were building the rest of the y's for filming. tons of little parts to go onto a well cast base. I can see them doing it almost exactly like this after they built the first master. AWESOME

do be careful unpacking though... a couple of those pieces of newspaper had items inside it'd be easy to accidentally toss them in the zeal to get at the resin you can see

the only donwside is I'm traveling for work in the DC area... and can't get to really get into the kit until probably christmas week... if I'm lucky

Jedi Dade

mslz22

Glad it got there in good condition...and good point about the newspaper with some of the parts.....and i can take the opportunity to mention that i use the paper for some parts because i found over the years that wrapping certain parts in paper works better than bubble wrap, it has a little more "give" than bubble wrap for some parts, avoiding crushing......plus it is a type of recycling.....right?
mike

swpropmaker

Awesome news guys! Glad you liked em! All backlogged Y's are complete n shipped... Thanks Mike! great partnership! (Im gonna keep you busy with new projects for several years I think!)

Guys please post pics of your builds! John and I want to see these babies come to life!!

Steve

79 DAYTONA

Will do Steve i hope to start on my real soon.

Jedi Dade

unfortunately I'm traveling on business for at least the next two weeks... I can't even think of starting it until then. Plus I need to pick up all the mounting gear since I'm pretty sure I want to mount it from the engines... I can rig it up no doubt but I do need to get supplies and think about it for a few seconds... altough the side mounts that Jason shows in the instructions are pretty good I have to say.

Jedi Dade

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Inspired by Jason's mounting instructions, have drilled and tapped the rod and ordered a few different standoffs from McMaster-Carr:

moffeaton

OOo - flat sided. I found something similar at Home Depot a week ago - easier to use than the round part from Smith Victor! SWEET!!

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Well, I was going to use 3/8 Smith Victor studs but I could only score one of them after two weeks of searching. I ordered the hex standoffs yesterday and they arrived today.

Wheee, off to the drill press...

darth_daniel

That looks so cool... The engine mount is a must.

How many red Ys are you away from starting Gold Leader Steve?

Darth Milo

I spoke to Steve yesterday and he told me that there were only 8 kits remaining, but now it's 7

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Oh yeah, that's going to hold up nicely:

jedimaster

Sweet!!

ralphee

Love that Kevin, very clean, very strong, Merry Christmas Y wing heads, going to carve open my box in a bit, when i can get away from the Peppa Pig toys lol.

lee

ralphee

Wow, just got through decanting this bird into safer sorter boxes, its AWESOME......sooo many parts, but its so well cast, and well implemented, KUDOS to the TEAM!

lee

swpropmaker

Sweet music to my ears!!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Bigturc

Red Jammer landed safely in Montreal 3 days ago!!! IT .. IS .. ENORMOUS!!!

Thanks to Steve and Mike for doing this at this time of the year!! You guys are ace all around!!! I didn't even know the list was getting their Y-Wing shipped!!!

Colin Droidmilk

Got my shipping confirmation. I add my hearty thanks to Mike and Steve for getting these kits out over the holiday season like this. Absolutely fantastic.

Blue 5

I've been reading through this thread to learn as much as I can on the Y-Wing models. I actually decided to do a shot by shot analysis of the battle of Yavin using my 2006 theatrical cut DVD and my 2011 BluRay. There are very few shots of the Y-Wings in the battle, so I made up a shot list to summarize what we see:

Flight heading to Death Star - one Y-Wing with black dome droid in socket
Flight flying with Yavin above - 3 Y-Wings in mass of 14 X-Wings
Red 10 cockpit shot - 2 Y-Wings flying behind
2x Wedge cockpit shots - 1 Y-Wing flying behind
2x Luke cockpit shots - 2 Y-Wings flying behind
2x Dutch cockpit shots from side - TIE Killer to his side and blue/gray with droid on other side
shot of 4 X-Wings peeling off in barrel roll - 2 Y-wings behind them (great shot! how do they make those models do that?)
3 Y-Wings diving down to Death Star - to much blur to see, but it should be all 3
Head on shot of Y-Wings in trench - this shot is reused 3 times
side shot of 2 Y-Wings in trench - TIE Killer in foreground, blue/gray underneath, no droids
TIE cockpit view ahead - 3 Y-Wings seen from behind with engine glow on
Gold 2 explodes - pyro shot
Y-Wings fly at camera with TIEs behind - 2 Y-Wings from front
Gold Leader explodes - 2nd pyro shot
Gold 5 (Leader?) explodes - 3rd pyro shot
Falcon with 2 X-Wings fly from Death Star - Y-Wing is either triangles or TIE Killer
Ships fly toward Yavin's moon - Y-Wing shot from behind

I know that TIE Killer is traditionally assigned to Gold Leader, but since it is visible to the side of Dutch in his cockpit shots I don't know if maybe he's flying triangles instead? Are there reference pics of the Gold (Red originally) with a piece of paper next to it listing the pilot, like the "blue" X-Wings (4 John D, 12, 3 Biggs)? I saw no evidence of Red Jammer in any of those shots, all tho most of them the Y-Wings are too blurry to identify or from an angle that does not show identifying markings. Given that the maximum number of Y-Wings in a shot is three, they are probably the known Gold ships. Any thoughts?

swpropmaker

TIE Killer aka Glod Leader was not destroyed as a pyro.. it lives! in the shot gold leader was killed in... they blew up Triangles.... I think it was Tiger wheel, Blue grey that was used in the trench.. As no shots of it have been seen since the release... then again who knows really.

achilles266

I wish I had my kit so jealous

Blue 5

I don't think they did blow up the hero Y-Wings. I think they had at least 4 pyros built for exploding (3 blow'd up, and one left over to be refurbed for ESB). It doesn't make sense to blow up the heros as they have armatures and engine lighting inside. With all that work and prep going into them to make them good looking an functional, blowing it up seems ridiculous and the might be dangerous with the armament inside being turned into a missile. The pyro models were generally basically painted empty shells, with pre-scored sections to break away and the ones I've seen were suspended by monofilament and not on armatures. The triangles ship may not be around today, but that doesn't mean it was blow'd up. It could have just as easily ended up in private hands or was damaged during storage or moving.

ralphee

Take it from us, "Triangles" as a Hero, was detonated, think the proof is in fact in this thread of another here on the board, and backed up by the Profiles in History images from a while back.

lee

ralphee

Id even bet my farm ( if i had one lol ) that the twisted mangled mess under the bench in the Lucas Soundstage photo is also, "Triangles" too.

lee

Blue 5

I'm going to have to look around some more to see where that information and pics were listed. I'm assuming Profiles auctioned off the blow'd-up parts from your response.

But I'm also finding two sets of pics that I can't match up to the 4 known original Y-Wings:


This one is under the reference page for "Gold Leader", but although the other two pics on that page are the TIE Killer, this one is most certainly not. It is not blue/gray or triangles either. Anyone seen this one before? (Interestingly they have pics of blue/gray and they label it as Gold 5.)


There's also this pic that was staring me in the face for awhile as I was referencing triangles on it, and then realized the model next to it was neither blue/gray or TIE Killer. With no canons on it and different patterns on it, I don't know what Y-Wing this is. But looking at the following table shots of models, I think it is a match for the farthest Y-Wing:



The Y-Wing closest to the edge of the table is definitely triangles, the next Y-Wing looks like it matches up with TIE Killer, and the last one looks like it is a pretty close match to the canon-less model from the pic above. Anyone agree with that analysis?