SS X-Wing Question Re: Heatsinks

[TridCloudwalker]

I finally got a hold of a bunch of heatsinks from Allied Electronics, and it dawned on me that I have no idea how many go onto the laser cannons. With the hundreds of photos I have of X-Wing studio models, none of them have a perfect profile of the cannons.

So, dear modelers, do two or three heatsinks go onto a single wing mounted laser cannon?

 

[vaderdarth]

two per cannon and two per engine pod. That is what was said in one of the SS Xwing threads. I wrote that one down. Good info. There were even pix to prove the necessity of the number of heatsinks.

Dave

 

[Treadwell]

You can get away with one in the pods...Red 2 seems to be the only one with two. (That Red 2 just has to be different in a multitude of ways, that one!)

 

[vaderdarth]

I stand corrected Tread, it was Red 2 with the doubles in the pods.

Dave

 

[TridCloudwalker]

Most excellent. Thanks, guys!

 

[Apophis]

All of my laser cannons use three each and one in the engine pod, with the exception of red 2,
They are 1/4" tall, the ones that come in the SS kit are 3/4" tall.

 

[Treadwell]

On the cannons, there is one heatsink exposed, then a ring, then a heatsink partially poking out the front of the ring. In that configuration there would be a gap between the heatsinks hidden by the ring, but it isn't wide enough for another heatsink. Either way, the heatsink would be completely hidden by the ring anyhow.

 

[Apophis]

Is this only on the red 2 or on all of them?
So, the hero kits are wrong? My resin heatsinks on my kits have 3. I thought that they only had 2 but stacked next to each other, the resin one is higher.
But obviously your picture proves otherwise.
I sure would like to know.

 

[Treadwell]

Looking quickly through my reference, the configuration in the above pic (Red 3 in the Art Of book) is the same on Red 1, Red 2 and Red 4/Red 5.

 

[Miniaturizer Ray]

On the cannons, there is one heatsink exposed, then a ring, then a heatsink partially poking out the front of the ring. In that configuration there would be a gap between the heatsinks hidden by the ring, but it isn't wide enough for another heatsink. Either way, the heatsink would be completely hidden by the ring anyhow.

The "ring" should actually be closed at the back end, like http://www.plastruct.com/Pages/OnlineProductDetail.lasso?-op='eq'&CCode=BTC-16, which is possibly - but by no means definitely - what was used on the original miniatures.

 

[mslz22]

What i have for reference shows that the height of the heatsinks that come with the kit are correct, at least for the x wing that I have reference from, it is possible some had 2 or some had 3, but the effect with what comes with the kit and the ring is equal in height to what i have here.

Miniaturizer Ray is right about the cap instead of the ring, I may change this on the kit...
mike