nothing big or clever here. just made the yellow on the Y wings deeper put a bit of colour on the astomechs and made the cockpits more like the shade of my A wings. Also painted the turret black to define it more... the factory paint job makes it look like ski's on the roof.

Repostioned the B wing totally for a more 'in flight' look and I much prefer it. Changed the post mount from the rear to under the wing and sawed the cockpit off an put it back on at an angle more fitting.

B wing position is as near as i could get it copy of the pic of them flying away from the executor as it blows up...only problem is the pic in the stills is 'flipped' but this is a mirror image model of the flipped still.

Very nice. Clean and simple. Good work.

Its going to sound wierd but the way my B wing used to look i just never wanted to use it, now it looks like it might be dogfighting it's going in my next list

Very nice. Clean and simple. Good work.

Agreed.

cheers guys, about 30 mins work max. In fact probably exactly that as i watched a youtube show of 30 minutes duration and they were done by the time it ended. Hardest bit was getting the cockpit front off cleanly as i could only find one craft knife and the blade on it was a bit dull... couldnt find my razor/jewelery saw and a hacksaw would have made too much mess.

Nice! I've done a similar modification to my B-wings. Removed the ship from the peg, added magnets, cut the cockpit off and added magnets to that as well. It allows the whole ship to spin independently from its peg and for the cockpit to rotate with it.

There is some reason behind why FFG modeled the B-wings the way they did, though. When they lock S-foils in RotJ, they're all in a 'standing' orientation. It's a legitimate flight orientation for them.

I just assumed it was so they could fly side by side... if you reposition them then its a nightmare to be close up unless you're on vastly different peg heights

The position of the B-wing is mostly due to practical reasons. After all it takes up a lot more area when it positioned sideways.

Amazing what a difference just the deeper yellow on the Y-Wings makes. They look great.

Amazing what a difference just the deeper yellow on the Y-Wings makes. They look great.

Indeed. Looks like he painted white around the cockpit as well as the orangey-yellow "V" around the canopy which makes the "V" pop out more.

Freakin' awesome. There are a lot of cool, more complex mods/repaints on here. But the simplicity of these, pulled off so perfectly, really makes them stand out. I love 'em.

nicely done gives the feeling of flight much more.

thansk for the kind comments

I did indeed paint the 'domes' on the engines and cockpits up to the same 'off white' they are in the films (and a matching shade to my A wings)

The yellow is foundry 'yellow shade' IIRC with a little citadel griffon sepia in the creases. The offwhite/grey is foundry 'arctic grey' from the shade, through the base tone to the highlight (which is really white).

As i've said before the stock paint on the Y is really underwhelming and made them look 'flattened'

somehow increasing the contrast makes them look a bit more substantial.

Its simple and clean i like it.