Awesomeness.
Yeah, DaveG again, here you go again inspiring us to spend way more money than we earn on things we can't afford. But this is a real beauty, so clean and geometrically flawless as to look constructed in a weight-less environment. It's a sort of "science-fiction, fictional vehicle" if you will, so really a meta-commentary on the genre, but oh-so-classic and plausible looking. Love your paint skills, and love how you've perfectly masked and then painted each "off-color" dura-steel panel as an actual panel, and not simply blasted a "rectangle around and including the dura-steel panel" with a gray or red (the way the Millennium Falcon was painted, something that always bugged me). This way it looks like the junk-yard off-color panel was actually added to the ship in a repair/maintenance session, rather than "painted on" the ship as an afterthought by a rushed film crew.
Can't wait to see how it all comes together with your weathering, and scorch marks, etc. And I had no idea what a great second life so many of those Y-Wing nurnies have been put to -- it took a few glances before I recognized some of them and said, "Hey, wait, I've seen that greeblie/subassembly before!"
Can you tell us what keywords to use if we want to search on Ebay to find a used set-up of grip equipment? Can you give us the brand names (Norms?), widths, lengths, etc, that you're using here? I want them simply to hold my Y-Wings with a 5/8" opening for posing and/or photography, so the more details the better.
Yeah, DaveG again, here you go again inspiring us to spend way more money than we earn on things we can't afford. But this is a real beauty, so clean and geometrically flawless as to look constructed in a weight-less environment. It's a sort of "science-fiction, fictional vehicle" if you will, so really a meta-commentary on the genre, but oh-so-classic and plausible looking. Love your paint skills, and love how you've perfectly masked and then painted each "off-color" dura-steel panel as an actual panel, and not simply blasted a "rectangle around and including the dura-steel panel" with a gray or red (the way the Millennium Falcon was painted, something that always bugged me). This way it looks like the junk-yard off-color panel was actually added to the ship in a repair/maintenance session, rather than "painted on" the ship as an afterthought by a rushed film crew.
Can't wait to see how it all comes together with your weathering, and scorch marks, etc. And I had no idea what a great second life so many of those Y-Wing nurnies have been put to -- it took a few glances before I recognized some of them and said, "Hey, wait, I've seen that greeblie/subassembly before!"
Can you tell us what keywords to use if we want to search on Ebay to find a used set-up of grip equipment? Can you give us the brand names (Norms?), widths, lengths, etc, that you're using here? I want them simply to hold my Y-Wings with a 5/8" opening for posing and/or photography, so the more details the better.