astroboy
Master Member
I believe that the clone wars y-wing was not the same one from a new hope. The ANH version was released with full hull plating by f-toys
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Victor3
Sr Member
Me too! Hopefully the T-65 & TIE will be close, too.
For that matter, it seems like the Macross Delta Mecha Collection valkyries may be close to 1/144 as well.
C'mon, consistency!
TazMan2000
Master Member
Yes, that A-wing rocks...and so does the tiny eenie weenie Star Destroyer. I'm still upset they didn't make something larger.
I'm not too impressed about the turbo laser tower, though.
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I'm not too impressed about the turbo laser tower, though.
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Hunk a Junk
Sr Member
The A-wing itself looks great, but I think the pilot looks undersized. I'm no A-Wing expert, but based on the images of the studio model the pilot should be larger. Of course, at this scale, Bandai was likely forced to cheat a bit to take into account the thickness of the canopy bubble. The old AMT kit had the same issue -- undersized pilot. I hope it looks reasonable with the canopy on.
Richard Baker
Sr Member
That's what I remember
Jun Austria
Well-Known Member
Oversized.
Still, Bandai A-Wing pilot is way too undersized. Not a tad but its like having young Anakin inside the cockpit. I will try to get 1/72 military pilot figure just to check for the size. And if its undersized. I might replace the body and keep the head.
TazMan2000
Master Member
The pilot is undersized when compared to the studio model, but it doesn't look out of place when compared to present day fighter aircraft.
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Galactican
Sr Member
I guess the decision to make the pilot bigger than reality was intentional to make sure that the audience could recognize it better.
Hunk a Junk
Sr Member
It seems there are three scales: The ILM studio model pilot is too big, the Bandai pilot is too small, and the full-size cockpit set is somewhere in between. I'll likely just wait and see how the pilot looks in the kit in my hand. I prefer the look of the larger pilot, which would scale the ship up to larger that 1/72, but I'm not a huge stickler for scale and I don't make dioramas. If the pilot is too small, it'll bug me every time I look at it.
This kind of demonstrates the difference in scaling to the pilot in the studio model vs scaling to the "official" size
The A-wing on the right is how small the A-wing would appear compared to a similar scaled Y-wing and X-wing
The one on the right is an unaltered FFG A-wing that seems to be based on the 9.6 meter figure which I believed is ultimately derived from scaling based on the full size set piece
The one on the left is a photoshopped downsized version that is closer to the size it would be if it was scaled based on the studio model pilot and some other references from
ROTJ
Personally I prefer the relative size based on the smaller on on the left. Bandai is giving us one that is relatively sized more like the one on the right
In the end, it's not too big a deal, I'll take it.
The A-wing on the right is how small the A-wing would appear compared to a similar scaled Y-wing and X-wing
The one on the right is an unaltered FFG A-wing that seems to be based on the 9.6 meter figure which I believed is ultimately derived from scaling based on the full size set piece
The one on the left is a photoshopped downsized version that is closer to the size it would be if it was scaled based on the studio model pilot and some other references from
ROTJ
Personally I prefer the relative size based on the smaller on on the left. Bandai is giving us one that is relatively sized more like the one on the right
In the end, it's not too big a deal, I'll take it.
Hunk a Junk
Sr Member
The one on the right definitely looks too big to me. I'm looking at the size of the cockpit canopy relative to the Y-Wing cockpit, and the one on the left seems perfectly reasonable.
Kamui04
New Member
If we go by that painting for scale,. The Y Wing's front fuselage section's length is around the same as the A wing's width. which puts it closer to the left one on blakeh1's photo.
Also for reference the seated pilot in Bandai's X wings have a slightly undersized body compared to the standing figure included, the head is the same size, though.
The T-70's standing Poe figure is 2.6cm from bottom of feet to top of helmet x 72 = 187cm tall which seems good enough. The seated one measured with a flexible film ruler is 2.1cm x 72 = 151.2 cm
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Jaitea
Master Member
Thats the only scale reference we actually see in the film,....the A-Wings in flight move so quickly we don't see the size of the pilots inside them,......if Bandai & official (Star Wars.com) lists the A-Wing at 9.6m.......then.....thats the size of it then......the models as much as we love them were designed for a job.....snowspeeders with legless pilots.....Jedi Starfghters with droid compression.....
Heres a comparison with a scaled up A-Wing (9.6 m) & Y-Wing (23.4m) compared to the X-Wing (12.5m)
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Heres a comparison with a scaled up A-Wing (9.6 m) & Y-Wing (23.4m) compared to the X-Wing (12.5m)
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