2011 Red Y-Wing: Build Thread™

I have an empty mount just waiting,but I wanna build the Texans ship. Argh,why must it be so pretty? Love the look of the instruction as well. Your painting this on Turkey day,yes?
 
I've been UN-boxing this thing myself. And I have to say WOW to those involved... The casts are 100% crisp and the details are awesome.
Can't wait for the following details.... :)
 
I hope to paint by Friday, yeah... at the moment, my sister-in-law is 5cm dilated and has an epidural in her back. Apparently "family member having a baby" trumps "working on a Y-Wing" on a Tuesday night? Sheesh, some people. :lol

So I think I'm not gonna get much model work done tonight or tomorrow during the day... we're waiting on A BABY! I hope he likes Y-Wings!
 
Talking of painting. That starboard engine looks like it was done with a brush by a ten-year-old! And half the plant-ons on the starboard underside look virtually untouched by paint...
 
The paint job in this pic looks much cleaner then I remember, I thought Y's were much more dirty then this, it seems too "clean" to me. Maybe its just me


Colin Droidmilk said:
Talking of painting. That starboard engine looks like it was done with a brush by a ten-year-old! And half the plant-ons on the starboard underside look virtually untouched by paint...
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The Red y's paint job wasn't as "dirty" as the others. Being the first one built it's starboard engine went unpainted for some time while it was in England. Upon it's return to the states it was finished to it's current day look. Also some if the plant on pieces. Ie the droid strip and messer parts on this side were also unpainted. The filming models were all more heavily weathered.
 
Thanks for the good insight, the history behind these kits is very interesting.

jedimaster said:
The Red y's paint job wasn't as "dirty" as the others. Being the first one built it's starboard engine went unpainted for some time while it was in England. Upon it's return to the states it was finished to it's current day look. Also some if the plant on pieces. Ie the droid strip and messer parts on this side were also unpainted. The filming models were all more heavily weathered.
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moffeaton said:
I hope to paint by Friday, yeah... at the moment, my sister-in-law is 5cm dilated and has an epidural in her back. Apparently "family member having a baby" trumps "working on a Y-Wing" on a Tuesday night? Sheesh, some people. :lol

So I think I'm not gonna get much model work done tonight or tomorrow during the day... we're waiting on A BABY! I hope he likes Y-Wings!
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Will it be "screen accurate"?

Gene
 
We just got home and I am BEAT. Poor sister-in-law was in labor for 26 hours, and at the last minute, they had to go C-section because his noggin was just too damn big, lol.

He is pretty accurate - all the parts seem to be correct!

:lol
 
Nice one Jason, best wishes to the Family and new born. Are you going to get him to paint the non hero side of the Red Jammer this week or wait till he's a bit Older? :lol
 
In the b/w Famous Spaceships photo taken in '77, the wall of the starboard fuse 'junction box' thing appears to have a different, somewhat more complicated set of plant-ons than the model in its current state. Or are my eyes deceiving me? How's this area on the kit? I'm pretty confused cos the b/w photos were taken after production (by Estes photographers visiting ILM), yet that area looks the same during production as it does decades later...what gives? The lower part of that area looks really different in the FS photo.
 
The Red Jammer had been built to the standards that it exists today no one can dispute that.

My opinion is that the model be represented in it's current state and its original state.For the collector to decide..

Colin Droidmilk said:
In the b/w Famous Spaceships photo taken in '77, the wall of the starboard fuse 'junction box' thing appears to have a different, somewhat more complicated set of plant-ons than the model in its current state. Or are my eyes deceiving me? How's this area on the kit? I'm pretty confused cos the b/w photos were taken after production (by Estes photographers visiting ILM), yet that area looks the same during production as it does decades later...what gives? The lower part of that area looks really different in the FS photo.
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Oh, I'm not disputing anything... I'm just wondering why that FS photo is such an odd fish.

The present-day, simpler plant-on arrangement is to be seen in the ILM shop in '77 with other half-built Ys lying around. Then comes the FS photo with what appear to be different plant-ons, taken just after production. Then come the contemporary photos and present state, all of which show the old, simpler plant-ons again. The question remains: how do we explain that FS photo? I can't satisfy myself that I'm reading the image wrong...
 
All remaining parts have been puttied, and will be sanded in the AM. This sucker will be done tomorrow - then on to painting!

Back mount cover held on with magnets. If you don't add batteries, you can easily add magnets with some putty.

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(if you do add batteries, you'll just have to dremel out a hollow for the magnets to rest in)
 
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