Pyro X-Wing kit WIP

**kh39** · Dec 19, 2011

wizardofthenorth,

Sorry for the delay in my response.It is about 15mm.The trench of the R2 strip is about 25mm wide on the pyro kit.So if the original master was 25.4mm(1 inch),the pyro kit fuselage woud be 2% of shrinkage as the rear plate is 2% smaller than the donor part(Sherman).So if you don't want to use the rear plate of the kit Maybe it would be more than 15mm.Well,accually I'm still losing my way if I should use it or not

To degress a little.I've also measured the canopy a little bit.Since the canopy was too big.I cut in half and glued them back together to fit on the fuselage.I think it is 1% smaller than the pyro kit canoy.So in my opinion the hero X-wing is 1% smaller than the master.Pyro kit is 2% from the master which is awesome if I'm correct.

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**wizardofthenorth** · Dec 20, 2011

I will be using the kit plate for sure. I am thinking to take the back wall back even farther based on your analysis, as the backplate is fairly thick. Then adjust the depth with a shim.

**kh39** · Dec 20, 2011

Yes,the rear plate is thick,but I wonder it is thicker than the original and what we see in the recess is back wall or not.

**wizardofthenorth** · Dec 20, 2011

To my eye, the back plate definitely seems thicker to picks I have seen...at least on the casting I have. Although I haven't trimmed it down to see it's final fitting. I am still in scribing and cleaning up phase. And I am sooooper slow.

I would think that is the back wall, as from the pics I have seen, the back wall I think is part of the base molded fuselage.

**kh39** · Dec 20, 2011

Thanks for your advice.But the lower fuselage shouldn't have a back wall right?And thank you for the rear plate picture.It is a first time for me to see it.It is very interesting.

I'm working on the lower fuselage.I don't like scribing panel lines on resin.

**kh39** · Jan 9, 2012

I 've molded an armature cap.(I don't know what to call.)It doesn't look good,but
sitill okay to use.I also did the brick pattern sheet briefly.
The condistion wasn't good.The resin was almost cured,so I didn't have much time to do,but even that it's difficult to make the thickness equally.If you have one more mold on the back of the brick patten sheet,it will work better I think.
By the way,if you want a SS looking pilot in 1/72 scale,buy a takara X-wing!

**kh39** · Jan 15, 2012

These are the inside of the fuselage before and after.

**kh39** · Apr 8, 2012

Hello,

Well,this is difficult to explain.

I've just put my fuselage on an armature.But then I've run into a problem.
When the wings are closed,the center line(horizontal)in between of upper and lower(armature)is lower than I expected. Do you guys think this is correct?
I'd like to know your opinions.Any opinion will be wellcomed.

**kh39** · May 27, 2012

Hello,

Well,this is difficult to explain.

I've just put my fuselage on an armature.But then I've run into a problem.
When the wings are closed,the center line(horizontal)in between of upper and lower(armature)is lower than I expected. Do you guys think this is correct?
I'd like to know your opinions.Any opinion will be wellcomed.

**TheRealMcFly** · May 28, 2012

I don't think we can exactly trust the straight lines of the fuselage. The history of the reassembly of this Pyro by John Eaves includes the reattachment of the nose cone. My guess is he did this to hide the twist/bend of the fuselage he had reconstructed. I noticed a lot of the straight lines are not quite. Also if you cut one of these on the vertical axis as it was originally configured your resulting halves would not lay flat.

That all said, the Pyros were not made for an armature so the issue your facing may have been a trait of the original Pyro master. I'm not yet to the point of fitting an armature but it would be my opinion to keep the wing mounts as parallel to the flat top of the fuselage as possible.

**kh39** · Jun 1, 2012

Thank you for your reply.
In my opinion,John Eaves didn't try to hide or idearize the pyro fuselage that he got.
Because there are cracks here and there on the pyro kit fuselge.

And I didn't know the nosecone was added by John Eaves.I thought there was a big hole for the suport rod,so the big hole was filled for molding.

By the way,here is a pic of the full scale X-Wing measured based on RED 2 studio model.
Still this is not the answere,but I think this is interesting.

**kh39** · Sep 29, 2012

Hello,the armature has been modified.Thanks for watching.

**jedimaster** · Sep 29, 2012

Wow.... That geared armature looks sweet.

**moffeaton** · Sep 29, 2012

VERY cool. Nice to see that someone has finally added motors the way they more or less did it originally.

**-... . .- --..** · Sep 29, 2012

WOW, definitely cool Kaoru. I really love what you've done with the hero armature for this model.

What kind of motor did you use?

**kh39** · Sep 29, 2012

Thanks everyone!

The motors I use are 12mm geard motor.I want to use this size because the
inside of the lower fuselage is very small space.If you use a vac-formed fuselage,you'll get no problem to use lager size of motors like studio model,but as for a resin casting fuselage,I think you'll need small diameter motors.

It took a lot of time to add the moving wings device.I can image how hard it was to design the armature and accomplish it.I really thank Jason for this and reasonable price.

**moffeaton** · Sep 29, 2012

I was just happy to help everyone get them for their X-Wings!

**kh39** · Oct 2, 2012

This is a video of my armature.

X Wing Red 2 Armature - YouTube

Thanks for watching!

**wizardofthenorth** · Oct 2, 2012

Awesome!!!

**ralphee** · Oct 2, 2012

Amazing Kaoru!

Lee

**moffeaton** · Oct 2, 2012

WOW, it even SOUNDS cool!

**MonsieurTox** · Oct 2, 2012

Incredible ! Mine looks like crap now lol

**jedimaster** · Oct 2, 2012

Lock S foils in attack position.... Love it!

**kh39** · Oct 4, 2012

Thanks for the replies everyone.I'm honored.

If you do once,you'll find that it will not that difficult.Now I feel anything is possible.
Next step is controling the motor.Let's do it!

**prop-fighter** · Nov 14, 2012

Hi everybody !

I would like to know where i can find the brass tube rod ?
have you a link for me

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