1/89 MPC Y-Wing

[Ventsislav Gramatski]

Hello everyone!

 

MPC's vintage 1/89 Y-Wing from the distant 1980's. I decided to build it as a generic Gold Squadron Y-Wing and not representing one of the movie studio models.

 

This poor model stayed in my stash for nearly 20 years. Originally a gift from my uncle who travelled abroad (Star Wars kits in my country in the '90s were like those mythical creatures you only hear about), it quickly went into my cousins' possession in the distant 1998ish due to kids being childish and, once there, it promptly ended broken and forgotten in an unpainted state. I found it literally lying in a stash several years later but it was missing parts of the canopy (including the clear piece) and parts of the port engine nacelle; many other parts were broken or damaged. At the time I lacked the skills to deal with that but I've been recently dabbling into 3d modelling and I have a 3d printer, so I decided to give it a try.

 

The canopy clear parts were scratch built from thin clear plastic sheet sourced from a sandwich wrapping. 🤣 There's a noticeable seam between the top and bottom sections of the cockpit area; I had to leave it disassembled until I completed the painting, so I could then glue the clear canopy parts from the inside. The raised panel lines were sanded down and rescribed. Other minor additions are some added greebles to the sparsely detailed areas and changing the plastic gun barrels to new ones made from several diameters of hypodermic needles. Overall, a pretty fun build for such an old kit, the only really problematic area was the fitting of the engine vanes. 

 

Stand still unpainted but otherwise it's finished.

 

 

 

The business end

 

 

 

 

Next to Revell's 1/90 TIE-Interceptor.

 

 

WIP shots showing the 3d printed parts.

 

Edited April 6, 2021 by Ventsislav Gramatski

[europapete]

well done, and a very nice recovery. Regards, Pete in RI