Star Wars A-Wing revised - Building Thread

[starbuck]

Saw the pictures of the revised A-Wing of (Thread of Cybergrider)
Shunichi Makino - Thank you for so many great models.
and I could not resist in making it too.

I also did the "old" version (without cockpit) and it was great fun to build.
Enclosed my first steps - following the instruction.

 

[starbuck]

Perfect Match of all parts.....but I did not follow instruction step by step.
1. mistake placing the seat - have to remove it, as the background is not yet put in -
2. mistake I did not glue part 4 into place - so I have to do it later on which will be a little more difficult :Computer:

Therefore my strong advice: FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY!

By the way: there a 2 parts named "4" - easy to distinguish - therefore no problem for the model or the building process.

 

[starbuck]

Back again - new pics and correction of mistake no 1. Unfortunately not a perfect correction, but I hope I will be able to minimize the "correction effect" in the end when finalizing the model.

Also these parts match perfectly. Nothing to complain about.
Tip: the sideparts (first picture right upper corner). When placing to the model make sure that the flaps are inside the hull.

 

[blake7]

Looks Great! Will be watching your progress.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Looking good Starbuck! (I also didn't follow the instructions at first....)

I think we get a bit over-confident when it's a model we've built before

 

[micahrogers]

Nice clean work, and straight too.

 

[starbuck]

Looking good Starbuck! (I also didn't follow the instructions at first....)

I think we get a bit over-confident when it's a model we've built before

I think you are right - the former build helps to understand the structure and how parts fit together.
Thanks to all for the cheerful words.

So next pics and correction of my second mistake - had to remove the seat - and after glueing the background I put it in again.
Next parts will be a little bit more tricky, I think. Especially the cockpit and the tiny parts of the gun.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Looking great, and where did you get the pilot!??!? He's perfect!

 

[starbuck]

I do not know exactly where I got them, but I think it was on E-bay long time ago.
I like it if my fighters have pilots - this one is a little bit to small for the model, but better than nothing.

So next steps: First picture - parts (do not know what they are named) - I decided to enforce them by taking a second layer of the paper to stabilize them.

The cockpit.....oh yes the cockpit.....
What you see is my third attempt - I only managed to form it by cutting the cockpit in plastic as it was designed for the paper version. Hard thing was to bring it in shape. - Not perfect as you can see the cuts in the final version of the cockpit.
Maybe there is a better way to do it - if anybody found - please let me know for future projects.

And some greebeling.......

The not perfect edges I will try to cover at the end by colouring and/or weathering.

 

[zathros]

Did I miss this thread somehow? You're doing an excellent job! Nice to see a great build thread.

 

[starbuck]

THX Zathros.

Enclosed the next parts.

Starting the guns....oh some parts have small diameter, but.....as the paper version of the parts were not in a perfect shape
I started cheating. As can bee seen at the pictures 2 and 4, I used toothpicks to replace paper parts. This works fine, as the diameter of
the paper parts and the toothpicks is the same.

 

[Gandolf50]

Hey .. wad-ya mean "Cheating", someone said in a thread a while back ( probably Zathros) that wood is only pre-processed paper! ( not an exact quote BTW)...

 

[zathros]

I believe (getting old so I forget) "Wood is unrealized paper".

Chopsticks, wooden skewers, all of these ready made shapes are great for paper modeling. I think every paper plane should have a wooden main spar. It's sad to see a model lose it's over all critical shape to moisture, where wood would have arrested the problem.

 

[blake7]

I use tooth picks for the guns of ninjatoe's MK II Viper. Of course on those the parts wrap around the tooth pick, so you don't see it.

 

[bigpetr]

It is not cheating, it is caled creativity

 

[Cybergrinder]

I agree with all the above

 

[starbuck]

I am glad to hear that the use of wood
is seen as useful, sometimes upgrading but not cheating.

I believe (getting old so I forget) "Wood is unrealized paper".

Chopsticks, wooden skewers, all of these ready made shapes are great for paper modeling. I think every paper plane should have a wooden main spar. It's sad to see a model lose it's over all critical shape to moisture, where wood would have arrested the problem.

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So now the final pics. (The plastic model is the version of Bandai - do not know whether other exist - just to mention.)

Summary: really a fun build with an great outcome.
THANKS AGAIN TO Shunichi Makino FOR THIS EXCELLENT MODEL. :Bravo:

Follow the instruction and everything will come together perfectly.
The difficulty in my personal scale is 7/10 (mostly based on the transparent cockpit and the small diameter parts of the canons).

 

[zathros]

Excellent job!

 

[blake7]

Fantastic build! Great job Starbuck!

 

[micahrogers]

Looks great...