Y-Wing Building
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I bloody hope so!HAhahaHA!The Y deserves the full treatment..especialy after putting all that time in...a little extra efort to wire in some LED's for the engines and maybe light up the cocksckpit a bit with some fiber optics would'nt hurt...and make it that much more appealing...but either way..the birds are looking great!
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
Well first of all I saw no point in incorporating the many mounting points. Is it going to be fimed? No. So what good are they to me?
Now for a large project such as the falcon I can see the point. Ease of handeling while one builds it. Or something more delicate like the X-wing. But the Y is very strong and can be handeled quite easily.
Lights?? Well it's something to contemplate, but at the moment it's a waist of effort. I mean, when they are finnished they are just going to sit in a case and look pretty. How often are you going to "light" them up?
To light it just to impress a few individuals seems a bit silly.
I'm more concerned with building an accurate model and finding all the doner kit parts.
Jamie
Now for a large project such as the falcon I can see the point. Ease of handeling while one builds it. Or something more delicate like the X-wing. But the Y is very strong and can be handeled quite easily.
Lights?? Well it's something to contemplate, but at the moment it's a waist of effort. I mean, when they are finnished they are just going to sit in a case and look pretty. How often are you going to "light" them up?
To light it just to impress a few individuals seems a bit silly.
I'm more concerned with building an accurate model and finding all the doner kit parts.
Jamie
Agreed Jamie. Lighting can be impressive but for this kind of project I don't think it is that necessary. We are talking about 2 small LEDs. If I were to do a Falcon then I would look into having the engines light up simply because that is such a big part of the ship.
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
Nathan,
The cockpit as a whole, will basically be cast in one piece. The canopy separately. The firewall (and it's many parts),front guns,top guns,top turret, etc, will all be either the real parts or castings of the real parts.
You'll get to see it. When it's finnished
Jamie
The cockpit as a whole, will basically be cast in one piece. The canopy separately. The firewall (and it's many parts),front guns,top guns,top turret, etc, will all be either the real parts or castings of the real parts.
You'll get to see it. When it's finnished
Jamie
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
Yippie I added two parts to my Y!! See the two deals on the the 8rad? Geeze, 7 months, two parts..... I'll be building this for decades....
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
LOL
yup, Bandai 1/24 Messerschmitt back in production!
...or maybe it's a new one, but hopefully it'll still have the same landing gear struts used for the Y-Wing "dome struts".
It's a Bf109E-4, cat# BAN46781.
www.hobbylandinc.com has them available for pre-order at $34.99 (they claim the list price is $50).
Thanks again to Tim (IRRC) who tipped me off about the Bandai model ages ago.
...or maybe it's a new one, but hopefully it'll still have the same landing gear struts used for the Y-Wing "dome struts".
It's a Bf109E-4, cat# BAN46781.
www.hobbylandinc.com has them available for pre-order at $34.99 (they claim the list price is $50).
Thanks again to Tim (IRRC) who tipped me off about the Bandai model ages ago.
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
I guess you haven't read this entire thread, huh?
my eye's are getting blood shot though.
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
Welcome Trooper. It is quite a read.
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While this part from the Bandai 1/48 Elefant is not an exact match,
...1/48 does seem to be the right scale for this part--therefore we couldn't just use any old jack from our armor kits (as I previously suggested) since most of them are other scales.
Fortunately, there's one other 1/48 kit already being used for our Y's that has the same jack part as the Elefant: that would be the Bandai 1/48 PanzerkampfwagenV Panther-G.
So, if one deems this jack close enough to be used, you can still scratch the elefant from your list.
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Is anyone certain this is 1/48? Part #21 in the 8RAD kit seems to look right to me. It has all those rivets intact. I have yet to scale it though.
Nathan
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While this part from the Bandai 1/48 Elefant is not an exact match,
...1/48 does seem to be the right scale for this part--therefore we couldn't just use any old jack from our armor kits (as I previously suggested) since most of them are other scales.
Fortunately, there's one other 1/48 kit already being used for our Y's that has the same jack part as the Elefant: that would be the Bandai 1/48 PanzerkampfwagenV Panther-G.
So, if one deems this jack close enough to be used, you can still scratch the elefant from your list.
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Is anyone certain this is 1/48? Part #21 in the 8RAD kit seems to look right to me. It has all those rivets intact. I have yet to scale it though.
Nathan
nkhyber@aol.com
DARKSIDE72
Sr Member
It's NOT 1/48 guys.
Jamie
Jamie
I could have sworn the idea that that part was from any 1/48 tank was shot down a long time ago.
