Super Detailing an AMT Star Wars Snowspeeder

Division 6 wrote:

Look at what I just found.   Eric...

Oh SWEET love the speeder cross sections....

I have a lot of detailing to do on the inside with the engines, but i did a lot of work done on the cannon and tow cable. I re-did the port where the cable goes in through the heat fins....I built a square tube to fit the panel, and wound wire around piano wire for the coils and inserted the piano wire thru the tube, then inserted that into the heat sink part.

This probably will be all I can do for this weekend. Will give updates however if I get time to work on it at all this week, have a very heavy work week so may not be able to touch it...

Side note: The project will take even longer now as I have decided tonight that I need to rebuild both sets of supports that hold the long guns on either side of the t-47. I am not happy with the detail and to hinge the air brakes it just wouldnt look right from the kit parts, so all of that has to be scratch built.

As well as a complete compartment where I put the engines at. Its too void with out any bracing and I want to make it match the front two panels.

PetarB wrote:

Amazing work, keep it up!!!

Thank you, I won't be stopping on this anytime soon. I have become obsessed with this one!!!

A little update, didn't get much time to work on it this weekend but opened up the foot hold holes, devised hinges for the airbrakes, begun to work on a plan for inside that same compartment,  and made a compartment where the fuel tank goes on the front of the speeder. Im thinking of adding resistors and calling them fuel cells....

Of course would have a lot of piping and wires and things in there as well...

Had a little time this afternoon before going into work tonight and attached the hinge for the other airbrake and finalized the layout for the fuel cells on the front compartment.

Aussie Muscle wrote:

That some beaut scratchbuilding in there.

I cant get too close with my camera (i apologize for the crappy photos) , but this is a basic layout for the inside of the air brake compartment. Ill add a ton of wiring to all the components...

Looking good my friend.

I sealed mine, didn't want to deal with re-detailing them.

At first I was going to have the covers removed than just decided on the easy way out.

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

Looking good my friend. I sealed mine, didn't want to deal with re-detailing them. At first I was going to have the covers removed than just decided on the easy way out.   Eric...

What about having it up on some sort of lift so you can see underneath.

Don't know what your diorama idea is but you could do it like a show car with mirrors under it.

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

What about having it up on some sort of lift so you can see underneath. Don't know what your diorama idea is but you could do it like a show car with mirrors under it.   Eric...

Haven't gotten to the base ideas yet, althought now would be a good timet to start. The mirror thing is good, as soon as I read your suggestion a futuristic type of fork lift came to mind, but then again i would have to build that thing 100% from scracth and thats way beyond my caliber. Mirrors just might do it.

For a lift I was thinking of something like auto shops put your car up on with to runners that the body would sit on.

Could even put a pit under it with a mechanic or droid. 

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

For a lift I was thinking of something like auto shops put your car up on with to runners that the body would sit on. Could even put a pit under it with a mechanic or droid.    Eric...

Hey that would work. Yeah I know what your talking about as far as the lifts go. That all could be built real easy out of square and round tube. There you go I like that idea. Will throw ideas around on that one.

Quick sketch

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

Quick sketch   Eric...

 Love the sketch your an excellant artist as well. I LIKE IT. That will probably be the way I go with the dio. That will solve the whole bottom view of the speeder. Do you know off hand what scale this speeder is? I looked all over the box and instructions and couldnt find a reference to scale. As the droids may have to be built from scracth...

Most references I have seen say it's 1/25 scale althought no one knows for sure, one even said 1/35.

I scaled it at 1/22 off a measurment I found and the figures I got are 1/20, compared to photos of the set ships they look close.

The only diffirence is maybe a 1/16 to 1/8 inch.

The action figures are to big by about 1/4 inch. 

There are 1/25 scale mechanics for race car dioramas available since it's a common car model scale.

Eric... 

Ok got a little done yesterday afternoon. Almost done with this part of the speeder, now just to make this side match the other side....

Division 6 wrote:

Most references I have seen say it's 1/25 scale althought no one knows for sure, one even said 1/35. I scaled it at 1/22 off a measurment I found and the figures I got are 1/20, compared to photos of the set ships they look close. The only diffirence is maybe a 1/16 to 1/8 inch. The action figures are to big by about 1/4 inch.    There are 1/25 scale mechanics for race car dioramas available since it's a common car model scale.   Eric...

Figures probably not as I suck at painting figures, I like the droid idea or I could just in a pinch leave it on the lift as if everyone was on a break, could even name the dio "break time" and that would explain why no one was there....

Don't back out now. lol

Make a bunch of droids doing the work and or some aliens.

Eric... 

Division 6 wrote:

Don't back out now. lol Make a bunch of droids doing the work and or some aliens.   Eric...

Yeah I was thinking today about building some droids, kinda like the pit droids or the droid that solo had on his falcon that he said "check it on the other end", that was mostly a "stick" shape droid that would be easy to build several of those...

It's called a Treadwell.

Division 6 wrote:

It's called a Treadwell.

Treadwell, would be easy to make them in plastic. I may go that route.

Body of the Astromech (R4) is 18" dia. 

Division 6 wrote:

Body of the Astromech (R4) is 18" dia.

I like the treadwell for ease of building. It would be nice if the speeder was a scale to match the action figures but oh well.

No real updates except i finished matching the detail in the airbrake cavity, so those parts are done. Now to concentrate on the engine bay and the front feul cell area...Then time to engineer some seat belts, scribe lines, and start think about a paint scheme......

WIPS = TEASE

Boy I can't wait to see this baby complete.

TD4438 wrote:

WIPS = TEASE Boy I can't wait to see this baby complete.

Thank you, and everyone else who is following me on this build. I am getting very anxious as well to see this thing thru, and finished. I got more done last night and will post pics of the progress this afternoon or evening...