Star Wars GB Episode II CLOSED

Thanks Porkbits, they are sitting proudly on the top of my bookshelf in my sci-fi room. I am looking forward to the finish of your y-wing.

I'm making a final push this week. 13 more pipes to install (ugh), then have to attach the nose/cockpit to the fuselage, guns to canopy turret, and then a final flat coat. 

BrandonK

decals are a PITA to work with as they stick almost insantly and won't slide around

Did you lay them on matt paint? it came out fabulous anyway.

I've continued on the pod racer. Having four parts to the basic engine made a pain as the locator tabs don't allow it to sit at the correct angle, making them somewhat oblong. i re-set them a couple of times to try and make them rounder.

I got the base paint on the engines and did some weathering and detail before adding the rest of the parts that cover it up.

Anakin pilot got a few paint details too

Yep, those engines look the part.

Yes, they do! Good stuff. The podracers were one of the few vehicles I liked from the prequels.

Come on now Porkbits, I thought the prequels had some very nice ship designs. The problem for me was the story line and character portrayal.

Har--yeah,

NucMedTech

Come on now Porkbits, I thought the prequels had some very nice ship designs. The problem for me was the story line and character portrayal.

 

Yeah, those were big problems, too. :-)

I will admit there were some nice designs, but I think overall the verhicles were way over-designed. Lots of art-school-graduate stuff--I could almost hear the admonishment to "find organic shapes, go out and be inspired nature!" 

Although I do admit I'm a cranky old Orginial Trilogy fan, so my opinion is skewed. That fate was sealed long ago when I first saw ANH in a drive-in at age 7. :-) Rotten kids, get off my lawn!

In any event, I'm pretty much at the finish line with the Y. Just need to find some time to take pics and I'll post them.

Hah! You and I are about the same age. I first saw it when my family was stationed in Germany back in '77 when I was 8. You can't compete with the original, but the prequel ships were not bad. They just did not have the cinematic impact the original had. The closest they came was in episode three when they opened up in the middle of the battle over Coruscant.

Hee--yeah, I suspect most of us here are SW fans of a certain age, as they say. :-)

The opening Coruscant scene was indeed breathtaking--the kind of massive, sprawling, cinematic space battle Lucas probably had in his mind when he made the OT, but obviously couldn't do because the tech wasn't there yet. But I'll always have a soft spot for the dirty-tech look of the Alliance ships, especially because they weren't CGI-ed. ;-)

OO, That pod racer is looking stunning. I can't wait to see how it looks finished.

BK

Thanks. i've done a bit more, the engines i now consider finished. The instructions for these are a mess, as it interchangably uses 2x to refer to both sides of one engine and one on each engine. One of the half circle energy link pieces was missing from the sprue, so i improvised a replacement from an engine pulley in my spares.

As i was getting ready to cut off the side vent hinge piece, one fell off the sprue and i was on my knees searching for an hour. These are tiny indistinct blob, so hard to see.

1. before vanes installed

2 & 3: engines complete

That is looking great!

Double post

Nice, OO!! Looking forward to seeing the finished product. 

Well, the lighting in my basement workshop is horrible, so I'm going to have to wait until next week for sunlight and then take some shots of the Y outside. Ah, well.

Hi guys, here is something I started on today.

I am on a staycation  this up coming week, so I figuring on a marathon build. I am going to try and finish five models by next Saturday. TIE fighter, TIE interceptor, TIE advanced, TIE bomber and this the Chiss clawcraft.

I'm sure i'm not the only one who's thought this:

I found a good photo online that shows both dish greebles are located on the Left, so i stuck the rhs one on the left as well and covered the hole on the left with a greeblie from my spares (a piece of a distributor)

some completed pix. i will do some better outdoor photos next fine day. Overall a nice kit that builds up into a fine replica of the movie prop. there are some issues with the pod-cockpit, which need forethought to resolve ahead of time. For one, the way AMT made the top and bottom cockpit leaves a terrible seam along the top of the 'door' area, unless you blended and painted it after adding the driver and masking him somehow. The instructions show putting the 'hood' decal too far backward, over the top of the dashboard. i put it far forward as it would go.

Looks really good! Like I said earlier, those engines are works of art. And I agree with Bish, the stand looks great. Is that the one that comes with the kit? How did you paint it?

I've made a small start on my AT-AT, but there's a lot of clean up to do. I'll post some pics when I've finished building the head.

Octaneorange, that came out great! I might have to reconsider getting one of those kits.

Bish, since there seems to be a lack of Empire involvement here let us put the clawcraft on the list and I will update on the other ones. I plan on the marathon but we will see how it goes.

Now, hold everything! Did I read something about another GB?

The base is the kit supplied styrene piece. after a base coat of vinyl spray paint, i used acrylic paint from lifecolor. rather than paint it on, i stippled it with a ruined brush.

Bish

Do you want me to use one of those pics or wait till you get some others.

yeah, my outdoor pics weren't any better.

Klik, I find your lack of pictures ... disturbing. (Mechanical breathing ensues)