Y-WING 'Gold Leader' Studio Scale Build by dtssyst

[jcoffman99]

One side printed. I need to print 4 more.
Printed on an original Anycubic. I upgraded it to a duel rail. Works beautifully.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you pick up the files for those? Are they your own design? I could use those for my Falcon build.
Thanks,
John

 

[dtssyst]

Files were from someone on FB. Whose name I no longer can recall.

 

[dtssyst]

The front eight 3D printed engine parts are installed.
Hopeful to get more done this week as I have a few extra days to work on it.

 

[Studio Kitbash]

Looks great.

 

[dtssyst]

Today's progress so far...
Backplate almost done. Needs to be thinner. It is magnetic so the 9v battery compartment can be accessed.

 

[dtssyst]

I worked on the Port side today.

 

[Studio Kitbash]

It's stupid how gorgeous all these exposed guts look, but they really do have an almost sublime aesthetic about them. I keep wanting to build one in all originals and never paint it just so I can admire its raw beauty.

 

[dtssyst]

I would love to see one built with all original parts and not painted. It would be a piece of art.

 

[joberg]

I would love to see one built with all original parts and not painted. It would be a piece of art.

Well, there's your next project As for the "exposed parts"; like the MF in "Solo" (without the wear & tear + exposed parts), I wondered how a YWing would look like without all of the details/pipes, etc

 

[dtssyst]

Head is in progress.

 

[dtssyst]

Guns made and installed. I tried to make them exactly the same as seen on my red jammer build.
Took a lot longer to do than I originally anticipated.

 

[Studio Kitbash]

Those are GORGEOUS guns, the likes of which I've never seen! You're not sharing your specs or measurements, by chance?

 

[dtssyst]

I would say they are a few mm to long. However, I made them the same as my first build so each build would match each other.
K&S 5130, 5129, 9834 brass tube. Sorry, I don't recall the other two tubes used or the K&S #.

 

[dtssyst]

Head is attached. Cockpit tub and canopy are just set in place.

 

[Studio Kitbash]

Head is attached. Cockpit tub and canopy are just set in place.

DANG!!!

If were a rich man, I'd hire Dtssyst to build all my Y-Wings. That is one CRISP-looking ship! A lot of Y-Wings look pretty muddy and thrown-together at this stage, like someone dipped the armature in CA and then sprinkled greeblies all over it and let them stick whereever they landed.
This looks like the "real thing" even though it's a fictional vehicle from a fictional world.

Can't wait to see it painted! And at the same time: Never want to see it painted!

Also, previous post -- Thank You for sharing the gun dimensions. How did I miss the meeting where the guns Go Down from 7/32nds to 3/16ths and then Back Up again to 7/32nds before beginning the final step-down in tube diameters? I never knew that - and it looks so good!

 

[Jamesfett]

Guns made and installed. I tried to make them exactly the same as seen on my red jammer build.
Took a lot longer to do than I originally anticipated.

After Blue Thunder's cannon I never thought I could love again.

Amazing work!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[3DImpact]

Can't wait to see it painted! And at the same time: Never want to see it painted!

I had the same thought - of course you're going to paint and weather this thing in wonderful fashion, but it'd make a really nice display as a this-is-how-they-were-made, studio-scale-model-in-progress example if left unpainted.

Looking great!

Dan

 

[dtssyst]

Wow, I have no words other than thank you all for the compliments.

Yes I will paint it. If it was all original greeblies, then I would absolutely leave it unpainted.

The guns step down, up then down come from a photo of red jammer...

 

[Studio Kitbash]

If I recall correctly, that original "step down" is from the Revell 1/32 F-4J Phantom rear wheel leg struts.

 

[mjhenks]

Very nice. Wish your images were available when i built mine. Looking forward to the next update.