ESB Studioscale Snowspeeder Rogue Leader

Hi guys, I have been working on this model and will soon post my progress to this thread. However I need your help. I am incredibly stuck with a part on the main guns. On the pic attached, the red part is giving me grief, I am thinking that it may be multiple parts glued together. The ribbed part is what eludes me. An idea is that it is possibly part of the forks of a motorbike kit. I am not familiar with any bike kits that were in the ILM stash and used on ESB models. Another thought was a heatsink of some sort. If anybody has any further ideas please share them. As stated, I will post my progress to this thread very soon.
Thanks.

Sorry cant help but looking forward to this!

Again no clue on the part, havent even tried to ID much of this prop TBH, but i look forward to your progress, if your building Rogue Leader from scratch, using all accurate donors, your my new hero.
I did manage to get mine in matt black today, so ill be painting my resin 'Leader very soon.

lee

Hi Michael, it's good to see see you in this thread. I have been wanting to thank you for awhile as you were my inspiration for building a snowspeeder in the first place. I always wanted to build one and then I came across the build album of your speeder and I started my first one soon after. Like you I based most of my measurements, with some adjustments, for that one off the MPC. That speeder also had a sprinkling of actual kit parts but most were homegrown. My new speeder is more accurate, as I have ID'd approximately 90% of the parts on the snowspeeder. I intend to add animatronics so that the flaps open and close by radio control. I am attaching a pic but it is not very good as I am getting accustomed to this camera. I think the flash is washing out the detail on the white styrene and I still don't know how to turn it off. Also thanks for responding Lee as I know this subject is also pretty close to you. I don't think I'll show my progress constantly as that will slow me down but I will post from time to time with something new. If any of you guys have any suggestions on how to get better pics, I'm all ears. The camera is a Canon PowerShot SD1000.

I know NOTHING about cameras, but i do know this, you have a gift working with styrene bud, this is already looking pretty special!

lee

As for the camera, I don't what you're using but if you have the ablility to put a white card stock at an angle in front of it, it will defuse the light some and not wash out the pic. As for the ribbed part? I say they may have scratched built that. Don't know

Thin white card not the heavy stuff. Maybe couple layers of scotch type might work to. Again you just want to diffuse the light, not block it.

Hi again guys, I am posting pics of the snowspeeder. Photo taking skills are still lacking but thanks for the tips Retep1701a. I tried using the white card. The pics are better than before but still not great. Hey Ralphee, I've looked at a lot of your work, it's awesome, coming from you, I'm flattered. Anyway here's the pics. Looking forward to hearing what you guys think.

Good job... Well done mate.

Excellent work. Your mystery red part looks just like a pump shotgun fore end. It also looks like a fork boot, which seems more likely. Maybe even a CV joint boot. Do tanks or artillery or likely donor kits have rubber boots?

Thats awesome makes mine look like a mess!

I think, (dont know your name) it looks top drawer buddy, i love the new pics, and i know how hard a task it is doing this.

I have an upper hull in styrene, and it tortured me getting it right, even my studio resin build is off to the prop.

Ill take this route one day im betting, not for a while though, but it really is a blast to see you building this the old fashioned way.
Cant wait to see more, you have a fan lol.

bests........lee

Looking great. love it in Styrene

Very nice! Love the looks of this. Keep the pics coming.

If your photography was as good as your scratch building you'd be another David Bailey

Welcome and WOW, thats some tidy work and super sharp.

Super nice work!!!

Excellant work! I can't wait to see how you paint it!

Hi guys. It's been awhile since I've updated my progress but I have been stuck on the guns for awhile. I started building the main bodies of the guns and have gotten pretty close but I am starting to believe that the ILM'ers did not scratch-build these at all. I am guessing they came from a kit. I've looked around and haven't made an ID yet. I think it could be part of the superstructure of a large scale ship or part of the body or engines from an aircraft kit. What do you guys think? Scratch built or kit bashed.

Looks like an aircraft engine cover. I'll check my stash but I don't recognize the pattern.

To me it looks to annoying to scratch build ......and then put that
detail on.

Telepathic, this is really great! Nothing compares to a clean styrene build. And, one with kit parts is even better. Thanks again for all your help with mine. Looking forward to seeing yours progress...

Allan