The Y-Wing "Green Leader" Project - NOW OPEN SOURCE!
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Hammer3246
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How's the neck update coming Dave? I'm home for an extra week and my printer is bored.[emoji4]
Sorry, not done yet.
It's that time of year where all my free time gets gobbled up.
Hammer3246
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I hear ya.Sorry, not done yet.
So yesterday was my 48th Birthday, and it was a blow-out and a lot of fun, especially with nine kids helping their old man out. But by far the best present I received, bar none, was from my six-year-old who built me his own Y-Wing Fighter out of kindling wood for the fireplace. "Dad, your Y-Wing is taking so long to build. I made this in ONE DAY."
Totally amazed. Totally humbled. Look at how he even got the Fibonacci proportions just right. "Be careful with the canopy Dad, because it's very delicate -- I made it out of bark."
Cheers!
Totally amazed. Totally humbled. Look at how he even got the Fibonacci proportions just right. "Be careful with the canopy Dad, because it's very delicate -- I made it out of bark."
Cheers!
Great story! I'm sure you'll treasure that Y-wing forever. It made me think of all the time I neglect my kids because I'm working on mine. Haha
After some very careful photo analysis I've come up with the following dimension for the length of the sections of 8Rad chassis on either side of the neck. Unfortunately each piece is well over half the length of the chassis so you'll need two kits, or castings, to chop up. The drawing of the length with the angled cut to match up to the main fuselage is based on one of Steve Niesen's photographs of the Gold Leader model. The one with the straight cut is based on the Alan Ladd model. Each length was independently "reverse engineered" from separate photos and they turned out to measure within .002" of each other.
IMPORTANT - I haven't check this against my old 3D printed neck parts. As I've mentioned, there's a good chance the neck shells are a little bit too short. I'm trying to get those updated, holidays and such are slowing down the process.
IMPORTANT - I haven't check this against my old 3D printed neck parts. As I've mentioned, there's a good chance the neck shells are a little bit too short. I'm trying to get those updated, holidays and such are slowing down the process.
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Hammer3246
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Dave, is there any chance you could model these parts for printing? I can't find them.
Cheers!
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Cheers!
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Hammer3246
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Dave, do you have a version of the forward fuselage without the recessed panel lines? Figured it would be easier to build the panels manually for those of us equipped with only a humble FDM-printer.
No, I'm sorry I don't.
So i've been noodling away fitting nernie castings here and there. As you can see from the pix some of the parts are accurate, many are not. I'm having great deal of fun changing things up. The top, which I've always felt was a bit weakly detailed on the originals has a droid strip chopped up and set up down the center. I figured that some of the same tech and mech might be used on more than one ship. That and the Apollo LEM part used to cover the mounting hole is just dumb! (IMHO). Some of the parts have been glued down, many are held in place with double stick tape, either because I'm not 100% decided on the placement or because I want to be able to paint some of the parts separately, then glue them down.
The 3D printed neck section parts are the old ones that I had assembled before Scott's note about fit issues with the kit parts. So on this model I'm just going with what I already had done, modifying the castings to fit. I did add .060" styrene to each side to add some width the the droid socket section.
The 3D printed neck section parts are the old ones that I had assembled before Scott's note about fit issues with the kit parts. So on this model I'm just going with what I already had done, modifying the castings to fit. I did add .060" styrene to each side to add some width the the droid socket section.
