Carter C
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Hello people of the RPF!
I have been a lurker for some time now and thought it was time to finally post a build thread (this will be more like a "built" thread but you get the idea). I will also be posting a couple other builds I've done as a sort of introduction for myself in this wonderful building place.
This first thread will show my build of a Gold 5 "Triangles" Y-Wing as briefly seen in Star Wars: A New Hope as a pyro model. You may have also seen it in a few BTS shots during the filming of ANH. My model was built off the wonderful files created by Dave G here on the RPF, and with many greeblies planted on curtesy of Studio Kitbash. I also had the fantastic Mike Andreadakis (otherwise known as Kokkari on the RPF) as an extremely helpful guide. Without these three this model would simply be a dream. Given that this was my first ever venture into studio scale modeling, I needed quite a bit of help.
First came the body and armature which of course came from Dave G's files. Some parts did not line up correctly which was easily fixed with a bit of styrene and elbow grease. Once the body was totally glued and seams were filled, it was time to cover this thing in the accurate cast and real styrene kit parts (Given that this was my first time building a studio scale model I wanted to try to include as many real kit parts as feasible for me).
Gold 5 does have some specific parts which needed to be included for accuracy specifically on the top of the model. Of course it's very important to be checking your reference as much as possible when doing a Y-Wing (or any other studio scale model) as there are slight variations between the specific ships. This whole process took much longer than expected as I'd run across a part I didn't have and would have to track down and buy kits of and whatnot. But you just keep working on it little by little and eventually some progress is made.
This even includes the cockpit/head, considering this ship has different chipping as compared to Red Jammer and Gold Leader.
This was a big checkpoint for me. I finally got the model mounted on a wooden dowel after working with it flat on the bench. It finally felt as if the Y-Wing was starting to fly. Please keep in mind that these 10 or so photos you’re seeing take place over about 4 months of time, it absolutely did not happen overnight. This project was learning experience after learning experience and not always fun (or cheap) ones lol. You can even see an example in my L’egg there (it collapsed under the heat of my vacuum former).
That will be all for now! Let me know what you guys think. I will be sharing more in the coming days.
I have been a lurker for some time now and thought it was time to finally post a build thread (this will be more like a "built" thread but you get the idea). I will also be posting a couple other builds I've done as a sort of introduction for myself in this wonderful building place.
This first thread will show my build of a Gold 5 "Triangles" Y-Wing as briefly seen in Star Wars: A New Hope as a pyro model. You may have also seen it in a few BTS shots during the filming of ANH. My model was built off the wonderful files created by Dave G here on the RPF, and with many greeblies planted on curtesy of Studio Kitbash. I also had the fantastic Mike Andreadakis (otherwise known as Kokkari on the RPF) as an extremely helpful guide. Without these three this model would simply be a dream. Given that this was my first ever venture into studio scale modeling, I needed quite a bit of help.
First came the body and armature which of course came from Dave G's files. Some parts did not line up correctly which was easily fixed with a bit of styrene and elbow grease. Once the body was totally glued and seams were filled, it was time to cover this thing in the accurate cast and real styrene kit parts (Given that this was my first time building a studio scale model I wanted to try to include as many real kit parts as feasible for me).
Gold 5 does have some specific parts which needed to be included for accuracy specifically on the top of the model. Of course it's very important to be checking your reference as much as possible when doing a Y-Wing (or any other studio scale model) as there are slight variations between the specific ships. This whole process took much longer than expected as I'd run across a part I didn't have and would have to track down and buy kits of and whatnot. But you just keep working on it little by little and eventually some progress is made.
This even includes the cockpit/head, considering this ship has different chipping as compared to Red Jammer and Gold Leader.
This was a big checkpoint for me. I finally got the model mounted on a wooden dowel after working with it flat on the bench. It finally felt as if the Y-Wing was starting to fly. Please keep in mind that these 10 or so photos you’re seeing take place over about 4 months of time, it absolutely did not happen overnight. This project was learning experience after learning experience and not always fun (or cheap) ones lol. You can even see an example in my L’egg there (it collapsed under the heat of my vacuum former).
That will be all for now! Let me know what you guys think. I will be sharing more in the coming days.
