monsterpartyhat Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 (edited) This was a fairly quick build - after musing that X-wing engines would make a good base for a speeder during my X/Y Junkfighter kitbash build, I naturally went and cannibalized another X-wing to do just that :). Mostly built this while waiting for replacement drill bits to arrive for my Millennium Falcon build (since I broke almost every tiny drill bit I had in my first attempt to drill out holes for fiber optics...). This is obviously heavily influenced by Jake Lunt Davies' Jakku speeder concept design from The Force Awakens, that ended up used in a 360 degree VR video on YouTube and a terrible Hasbro toy. While not attempting to actually build *that* speeder, I definitely used the overall layout as a plan for it. Here it is next to a Vehicle Model X-wing for scale: And I thought it was funny how much space all the paint that went onto it take up next to the model itself :): Lots more, including WIP photos, in the flickr album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aalpern/albums/72157689673841005 I used a combination of a couple of gauges of music wire, and aluminum tubing for the steering vanes and roll cage. The pilot's seat is one of TonyRR's Millennium Falcon seats from Shapeways (and now I need to order more of those....). The control stick and some piping I added to the back of the engine nacelles after re-locating the exhaust tubes is actually snippets of the docking ring piping from the Bandai TFA Millennium Falcon, and part of the underside is those little bits of sprue attached to the wings of the vehicle model X-wings... There's a lot more cockpit detail I would add in a larger scale, but this was stretching my abilities as it is. I've already got another variant in progress with the other engine pair from the donor X-wing model. I'm working on a much cleaner build of the tubing/wire portions, with less glue and paint buildup. Edited November 17, 2017 by monsterpartyhat 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 That looks great. And considerably faster and scarier than a speeder bike! You can take it around the block first. I'll watch from a safe position. (Maybe Kessel). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterpartyhat Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 Heh. Yeah, with two X-wing engines powering a single-person speeder, this thing must be *FAST*. Fast enough that a brave pilot can cross the Jundland Wastes while avoiding interception by sand people. Its owner is a washed-out fighter pilot who acts as a courier for stolen Holocrons for the Hutt crime family. The other one I'm building with the other 2 engines is going to be a bit larger, with more cargo space. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wasley Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 That's fired up the imagination,Super build,love the base it sits on,Wow that's hard to believe that much paint went onto such a small scale. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Excellent build, and the base really sets it off well. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterpartyhat Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 (edited) Here is Junk Speeder #2, made from the other pair of engines in the donor X-wing kit. It's not *quite* done, but it's reached a point where I'm happy with it so far, and I'm going to sit on it for a while to figure out the right final touches. I had planned, and attempted, a roll-cage/canopy very similar to #1, but was unable to get it to fit and stay in place after enough attempts that I said "screw it". I may attempt it again later, or try something entirely different. The sidecar cockpit was a particularly fun bit of scratch-building. Started with the nose-cone and cut-down lower front fuselage of the X-wing, then sanded out the channel a bit and cemented in a Falcon cockpit seat. Attached some styrene sheet to the back, then cut it down to serve as a guide for wrapping more thin styrene around to form a rear fuselage. Then I cut off a piece of leftover greeblie from my previous Y-wing kitbash to put in the back, then added still more pieces of styrene for panelling and bulk. Lots more WIP photos in the flickr album, as before. https://www.flickr.com/photos/aalpern/albums/72157689673841005 Edited November 20, 2017 by monsterpartyhat 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Vale Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Awesome stuff Adam, I think I like the asymmetrical one even more. I knew they were small from the Flickr photos but seeing them by the paint pots or that massive 4:1 scale model of a hand really brings it home Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterpartyhat Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Heh. Making these tiny things involves magnifying lenses, tweezers, and copious swearing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badder Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Great stuff. I would not like to ride the 'out-rigger' though, with the whole starboard view blocked by those engines. Well scary! Rearguards, Badder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterpartyhat Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 I wouldn't either, but it's completely in line with the Star Wars ship aesthetic :). Millennium Falcon -- one entire side of visibility blocked. TIE Fighter and most of its variants - wings block at least 1/2 of visibility. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badder Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 2 hours ago, monsterpartyhat said: I wouldn't either, but it's completely in line with the Star Wars ship aesthetic :). Millennium Falcon -- one entire side of visibility blocked. TIE Fighter and most of its variants - wings block at least 1/2 of visibility. Indeed. I first realised this in 1977, aged 12, while collecting the Topps bubble gum Star Wars Collectible Cards. Still, I'd rather fly something with radar, computer aids, heads up display, canopies/cockpits and airtight hull than a rocking chair strapped to the side of a rocket. Rearguards, Badder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterpartyhat Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Hey....when those salvaged-from-wreckage, repaired-with-salvaged-parts-and-duct-tape X-wing engines explode, being in the sidecar might be safer than being directly on top of them (maybe just 0.001% safer) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Rose Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Nice little builds! The asymmetric one is a very cool concept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 crikes - what brilliant and inventive stuff you keep popping out - a just so tiny too. You have a very vivid and creative mind top marks there - adding really believable shapes back into the world of Star Wars that ILM would most probably approve of (they just didn't think of it first ! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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