Good point! I "built" the Bandai Stormtrooper as well (no glue) and I'm very impressed with its range of "poseablility."Be careful in gluing the parts together and do things in the order the instructions give. Not sure about the Y-wing but the bandai Storm trooper kit was designed so that some parts, like the hands, can be pulled apart and the weapons changed out. I was building it in sub assemblies like a regular model kit only to find out it's more like a 3d puzzle than a regular model kit.
Hey, Monsieur Tox -nice to hear from you again! How is your SS Red Four doing? Do you still have it? Do the wing motors still work?Monsieur Tox said:The details are gorgeous and the shape and proportions of the cockpit/body/engines are perfect !
Excellent - I did not even notice that! May I ask which size plastruct T you used?Monsieur Tox said:... the only modification I made was using real plastruct Tees to replace the ones that have a triangular section in the kit.
Yes that's an awesome kit, the only modification I made was using real plastruct Tees to replace the ones that have a triangular section in the kit.
The details are gorgeous and the shape and proportions of the cockpit/body/engines are perfect !
Another mod should be shortening the "wings" so the engines are less far apart. Shouldn´t be a difficult mod since the Kettenrad parts on the wings are molded as seperate parts.
Well to be honest I've checked against several straight ortho pics and the the wings are the correct width, I'm not sure what you mean Dan ?
A contributing factor to the variation might be that Gold Leader and Gold 2 were the "hero" studio models, whereas Gold 3 was reported to be a Pyro (different construction methods & molds). Also, there is bound to be some dimensional variation due to different photographic lenses uses, and the reproduction/printing process (regardless of whether it was a color print or printed in a book, and then scanned).I mean the wingspan is too big. I stole a picture by Adam Johnson from modeler magic (source: LINK) to show this.
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Ok I did the same for tiger sprocket and gold leader and apparently there´s either some variation between the Ys, or the pictures are distorted or I´m incompetent at measuring. They indeed are better matches with ratios of 1.221 for tiger sprocket and 1.234 for gold leader, both just slightly higher than the Bandai model´s ratio. Still to my eye the Bandai model looks too wide, to me it´s clearly visible in the comparison picture to the MOM Y. I guess it comes down to personal taste and how picky you are, I´ll definately shorten the wings on my builds.
I won´t post the picture of gold leader because I was told better not to share it here since it´s a "secret" reference photo so I hope you believe my calculation.
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