Upsilon Mod Ideas?

By Knave Squawk, in X-Wing Painting and Modification

I have an extra Upsilon Shuttle with a broken wing (broken at the pivot point) and want to see what I can do with it from a mod perspective. Any ideas?

One thought is to glue the wing back on and repaint it with seagulls and make some sort of Bad Lip Reading joke.

Google yielded little so my assumption is this isn't modded very often. Thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

You could get some acrylic sheeting from ePlastics and create another wing for it in the right shape, and etch/scratch/paint the First Order logo onto it. That could look pretty cool.

Or hammer it all and build a nice debris field.

14 hours ago, Knave Squawk said:

I have an extra Upsilon Shuttle with a broken wing (broken at the pivot point) and want to see what I can do with it from a mod perspective. Any ideas?

One thought is to glue the wing back on and repaint it with seagulls and make some sort of Bad Lip Reading joke.

Google yielded little so my assumption is this isn't modded very often. Thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Saw a tie interceptor-esque cutout from the both wings, break off the unbroken wing and mount facing forward so it looks like a giant interceptor

I wonder if it's about the right size for TIE Punisher panels to go on the side.

You could give it giant Striker-esque wings facing forward or give solar panels like a TIE Reaper.

Oh! Or you could give it a Batman mod! :ph34r:

Could you make some kind of extra engine pods? Or maybe shear off the wings where they have that step (about 1/2 way down the wing) and use the wing-tips as two fins on it's back.

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I might try to combine these ideas - I have several Tie Punishers and could make look like some sort of heavy bomber with the wings swept forward, larger engines and bomb pods from the punisher.

Flip it over

chop the ends of the wings at the middle panel seem.

put one of the two on the bottom ( now the top )

put the template joint on the top ( used to be the bottom )

now its a big scary lamda

13 hours ago, Knave Squawk said:

I might try to combine these ideas - I have several Tie Punishers and could make look like some sort of heavy bomber with the wings swept forward, larger engines and bomb pods from the punisher.

I think if you took the TIE Punisher panels and flipped them around (maybe even fitted them inside out) they'd fit pretty nicely.

Like, this is a TIE Bomber version somebody has mocked up... if you can imagine that this is your view from the back of the Upsilon as it flies away from you?

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On 6.10.2017 at 0:38 PM, Stay On The Leader said:

I think if you took the TIE Punisher panels and flipped them around (maybe even fitted them inside out) they'd fit pretty nicely.

Like, this is a TIE Bomber version somebody has mocked up... if you can imagine that this is your view from the back of the Upsilon as it flies away from you?

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Thats the TIE Shuttle as seen in Episode V ;)

I've thought about the Batman option myself.. almost thinking of Bat-fleck batwing style. .

Has there been a reason given as to why bat wing needs them?

It looks like about the right size to slap some Raider wings on.