Hasbro B-Wing Conversion

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Archive&Future

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As I earned a fair bit of money over the past couple of months I've decided that I'm going to stockpile my projects at the beginning of the year.
Some of you may have noticed that I've got an MPC Falcon conversion, Hasbro Slave I and Thunderbird 2 conversions going on. They'll all be done at different rates and times rather than all at once, in theory.

Anyway I picked this toy up from evilbay, it's the 'dagger squadron' version. 'What's that?' you say? No idea

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It's just under 2ft long. Can anybody tell me the length of the studio model? I need to work out what donor kits I need

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Disassembly for this was a doddle compared with Slave I

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The default guns are just manky, they look they should be chewy dog toys

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Also the entire thing is covered in raised panel lines. Geeeezz I thought this kind of stuff was limited to AMT, not recent Hasbro toys. SIGH

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This is going to need more work than I'd anticipated. The cockpit and gun hub are oversized and misproportioned respectively but I think I can live with that. Any advice or ideas are gladly welcome
 
Junk Pilot said:
You've only just started but I'm loving this already. Guess where this is going?

http://www.therpf.com/f11/star-wars-hasbro-appreciation-thread-v2-177385/

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Even though the Dagger Squadron and the VC B-Wings are recent releases they are still using the original old molds. It was only the cockpit dashboards they updated so it could do with a new fuselage to bring it up to date.
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Thanks JP! The cockpit interior is actually beautiful, it's like a resin casting the detail is so fine. It's just a real bummer that the panel lines are all raised, it's so much extra work.
Oh also, any idea about size? Still trying to find out how big the studio model was
 
Lots more work on that one, but it's feasible for sure (more elbow grease, that's all;)) the possibilities are there to make it something ass-kicking! I'll follow it for sure as well as your other transfos.
 
There are several members in the Studio Scale section who have built, or are building, a resin SS B-Wing, including Guy Cowan, Ralphee and Monsieur Tox. They should be able to tell you exactly how long the "real" thing is.

Haystack Hair said:
I saw somewhere that the filming model was 740mm long? The Hasbro toy is 570mm so around 75% of the original, same story as Slave I or so I hear.
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I carved off a load of panel line from the main hull today, forgot to take photos. I also build up some of the new guns

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They're slightly too long I think and not entirely accurate but they're miles better than the original ones
 
Want to know something sad? I had one of the original B-wings back in the 80s and those guns you took off it look just as bad as they did back then. Same warpage and such. I actually had one of them floating around here in a box of crap for years. They used the worst plastic.
 
Wow. I'd totally forgotten about this thread. I was even set to ask if anyone had taken this beast apart because I just bought this very ship yesterday. No need to ask now. Haystack Hair's already done it.

How's this going now, HH?
 
Junk Pilot said:
Wow. I'd totally forgotten about this thread. I was even set to ask if anyone had taken this beast apart because I just bought this very ship yesterday. No need to ask now. Haystack Hair's already done it.

How's this going now, HH?
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Not enough to warrant a thread update, but I've been re-scribing more accurate panel lines. I need access to a dremel to cut away the cockpit gun area really. Toy conversions are more strenuous than I'd imagined!!
 
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