Here's my AMT/ERTL Star Wars Y-Wing starfighter, finally finished. I painted it in "Green Squadron" colours, for a change from the usual "Gold Squadron" Y-Wings (was Gold the Y-Wing squadron in the first SW film? - can't remember, but I presume so), and weathered it heavily to bring out the surface detail.
The kit is intended as a "snap-together" one and so the fit and detail accuracy of some of the components leaves a lot to be desired. However, it still makes a nice model once assembled and painted (needed a lot of filler putty though for the gaps on the fuselage joins). Scale seems to be about 1/72 based on the size of the pilot figure, maybe a bit smaller.
Other than the colour scheme, and the fact that I didn't use the decal sheet, the kit is built "out of the box", though glued rather than "snapped" together!
The "flying base" is a bit useless, as the ship is so tail-heavy it tends to fall over unless balanced very carefully! However I managed to get it to stand up long enough to photograph it.
