I found two trimmed parts on the Red, thank you again! I couldn't use either one for making a copy, though, this will do fine. I need to find the #3 and the side pontoons are done.You're right this is the opposite part used on Red Jammer (I flipped the pic of my Y to show you the part), however I remember this part is used on at least one other place (maybe 2, cant recall and I sont have time to check my ref pics) on Red Jammer, they're trimmed though.
Avanaut since you in no doubt have done quite a bit of research for the Tie-killer Y, I was wondering if you could chime in on droid colors for this ship. I know in the movie it was droidless, but I'v seen photos of it with a light grey droid and a black one. Is this correct and what you have seen also?I wanted to have a droid on the Y-wing. I do not know the donor kits of the little greeblies on the plate around the droid socket, so I did what Lee (ralphee) did in his build – I copied them from the original Lancaster turret part that came with the kit. I have only once before made silicone molds and this was my first time using this kind of resin. Like I said earlier, there is a steep learning curve. While I was at it, I made a resin copy of the droid also (sitting too tall at the moment), you never know if a spare droid is needed, right? In the photo there are also some additional parts from the 8Rad, not glued on yet.
My build is a general Y-wing, a blend of Gold Leader, Tiger Sprocket and the MOM (as they are often called here), so the need to determine the right astromech for the build is really not very important. Anything that looks good will suffice.Avanaut since you in no doubt have done quite a bit of research for the Tie-killer Y, I was wondering if you could chime in on droid colors for this ship. I know in the movie it was droidless, but I'v seen photos of it with a light grey droid and a black one. Is this correct and what you have seen also?
Hey Avanaut, This thread has been quite for a long time. Wondering how your progress is going? I've been looking through some kit scans and comparing to your parts map (which is very helpful BTW) and you have the part circled in red below as an 1/35 8Rad. I can't seem to find that part in this kit. Maybe I'm not matching the part I'm looking for with your map correctly, but it appears to be the right one. I read on a thread that it may belong to a howitzer. Do you know anymore on this?
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Thanks for your quick reply. It was just a matter of me getting wrong which pieces you were identifying in your parts map. You know how bad the resolution is in some of those old ILM photos. Thanks
While on the topic of clarification over your parts map image, would you mind providing the part # of the Hanomag piece you point toward directly behind the R2 unit on the Gold Leader. I've been trying to build up some parts maps of my own and couldn't determine which piece in the Hanomag set you believed it to be. Thanks.
I know this post is 2 years old but part #1 is also from the Centurion. It's from a larger piece that has been trimmed. I came across it last night.I did some castings of the Tamiya Centurion during the weekend and got a little work done on the Y-wing. Going throught the details using the reference I have. I found questions along with some answers.
http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums...ng/GoldLeaderFlankComparisonx_zps0ba7c63a.jpg
First the Gold Leader starboard side flank. Yup, I should've guessed it. First, it's different than the one on the MOM Tour Y-wing, and secondly there's a part (1), or parts, I had not really noticed before. As I can't find any better photoreference of that area, I will have to pass on this arrangement.
http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums...-Wing/MOMPortFlankComparisonx_zps1bef1f19.jpg
Ont the MOM Tour T-wing the starboard Centurion and 8Rad parts are arranged differently, the unknown parts on the bottom are missing but, alas, there's another new part (2) I can't identify. I will look for something close to it from the kits I have. It is time for some compromises.
http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q614/Avanaut/Project Y-Wing/MOMFlankComparisonx_zps3cb5bdf0.jpg
The port side on the MOM has the best reference available, yet there was another surprise. I had overlooked the part below the 8Rad (3), I have to try to find something similar. The part in the middle, in the place of the cut centurion part (4), wasn't a surprise but it is unknown to me. It's back to kit scans.
As you can see from these photos, the flank protrusions are all I am going to go for, the recessed areas behind them and areas under the wings are too difficut for me, they will remain in the Red Jammer configuration.
I know this post is 2 years old but part #1 is also from the Centurion. It's from a larger piece that has been trimmed. I came across it last night.