I was lucky enough to get a hold of one the Nice-N/Salzo Gold Leader kits a few months back. I already have a Tie Killer so I'm going for my next love the MOM Y. I've loved its paint scheme and unique pipes ever since I laid eyes on it in the Lucas Archive book. I love the dual racing stripes on the canopy and pure dinginess of the brown tones. I'm also pretty excited because I'm not sure I've seen a competed MOM yet.
One thing is for sure is that she has seen some definite changes and wear over the years. I can't confirm, but I heard that she may have started as a pyro and then was retrofitted with more detail around Empire. Other speculation is to whether or not it saw any screen time. One thing for sure is that it was around during the original filming of ANH. Here she is in her original state with no forward guns with John Dykstra.
No extra forward guns or Ferrari 312T4 pipes, It has the Bf-109 guns, and has the same M23 McLaren top mounting plug as Tie Killer. One thing I can't figure out is why the torpedo exhaust doesn't extend over the yellow markings. the streaks on the top of the forward fuselage don't stretch across the yellow markings either. Maybe the yellow was repainted later on???
Here she is later on after she was refit with the Ferrari Pipes and a different top mounting plug, but appears to be another part from the MCLaren kit. then back to an unmodified version of the McLaren plug. At some point the rear mounting plug was changed also, but it started off with the one that all the other Y's seem to have.
Here are some rough part maps from my notes. These are only meant to illustrate how the parts are different or configured different from other Y's, namely Gold Leader and Red Jammer. Yes, there are more differences along the top and bottom and nacelles, but thought I'd share these basic ones.
So when converting the Nice-N kit I started by removing some of the molded on detail along the neck and sidewalls. It was pretty hard and sad to actually remove detail.:cry From what I can tell the Ladd and MOM are pretty much configured the same with their detail along the top and bottom. The sidewalls are also configured almost identically. So it has been easy to find hi-res reference. I got real lucky and found just the one Ferrari 312T4 sprue with the additional pipes on ebay real cheap. I sanded off all the little tire block tabs along the rear edge of the nacelles and replaced them because I felt they were a little over-sized. The left Nacelle was a beast to put together as the two halves did not line up correctly. Anyone else have this issue on this kit?
I also sanded all the little raised detail on the cockpit and put on the corrected ones in there position. I am in the process of re-scribing the panel lines.
One thing is for sure is that she has seen some definite changes and wear over the years. I can't confirm, but I heard that she may have started as a pyro and then was retrofitted with more detail around Empire. Other speculation is to whether or not it saw any screen time. One thing for sure is that it was around during the original filming of ANH. Here she is in her original state with no forward guns with John Dykstra.
No extra forward guns or Ferrari 312T4 pipes, It has the Bf-109 guns, and has the same M23 McLaren top mounting plug as Tie Killer. One thing I can't figure out is why the torpedo exhaust doesn't extend over the yellow markings. the streaks on the top of the forward fuselage don't stretch across the yellow markings either. Maybe the yellow was repainted later on???
Here she is later on after she was refit with the Ferrari Pipes and a different top mounting plug, but appears to be another part from the MCLaren kit. then back to an unmodified version of the McLaren plug. At some point the rear mounting plug was changed also, but it started off with the one that all the other Y's seem to have.
Here are some rough part maps from my notes. These are only meant to illustrate how the parts are different or configured different from other Y's, namely Gold Leader and Red Jammer. Yes, there are more differences along the top and bottom and nacelles, but thought I'd share these basic ones.
So when converting the Nice-N kit I started by removing some of the molded on detail along the neck and sidewalls. It was pretty hard and sad to actually remove detail.:cry From what I can tell the Ladd and MOM are pretty much configured the same with their detail along the top and bottom. The sidewalls are also configured almost identically. So it has been easy to find hi-res reference. I got real lucky and found just the one Ferrari 312T4 sprue with the additional pipes on ebay real cheap. I sanded off all the little tire block tabs along the rear edge of the nacelles and replaced them because I felt they were a little over-sized. The left Nacelle was a beast to put together as the two halves did not line up correctly. Anyone else have this issue on this kit?
I also sanded all the little raised detail on the cockpit and put on the corrected ones in there position. I am in the process of re-scribing the panel lines.
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