Andrew Harrell’s Y Wing

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Which came first, Y-wing or the Egg?

This project started with two plastic Easter eggs. I cut them down to be the domes and steering assemblies. All other materials were Evergreen sheet styrene, tubes, and halfrounds. I also used some T-bar from Plastruct and two short pieces of 1 1/4 PVC pipe. Final piping was done with some 20 ga. electrical wire.

Painting consisted of a base coat of Testor’s Camo Grey, with Dark Ghost Grey and some yellow Detail. Weathering was dry brushed flat black.  The pilot is an X-wing pilot from an MPC/ERTL X-wing kit, and the R5 astromech was scratch built.

Total cost was about $15.00 and the build time was about 10 hours. The finished model is about 16″ long

Andrew Harrell