![]() I sprayed the tub flat black, picked out all the buttons and knobs in various colors, and then dry-brushed the seat and all the boxes silver to both highlight their outlines and to show wear and tear. This very simple and cheap modification improved the seat's looks immensely. A pair of seat sides were cut from styrene sheet plastic and glued to the sides of the seat. The kit seat is integral with the rear cockpit bulkhead, so the simplest and cheapest way to do this was to put sides on the seat like real seats have, to keep the pilot from sliding around. looked like a seat as opposed to the stack of rectangles in the kit cockpit tub. since I wasn't going to use the pilot blob, I needed something that actually. ![]() I had already decided to display the canopy in the open position and without the pilot. Sadly, I did not have a digital camera when I built this model, so I can't show you photos of the build in process, but I can show illustrations of most of the steps. I also cut the canopy shell off the cockpit pod so it could be displayed in the open position. All this cutting and sawing would allow me to build, paint, and detail the model as seven separate sub-assemblies, before final assembly (left main wing, right main wing, engine assembly, front cockpit pod, rear cockpit pod, folding wing cross assembly, and the double pod assembly that fits between the engine and cockpit pod). The main wing became two pieces, and the cockpit module, which would have been trapped between the two main wing halves during assembly, also became two pieces, having been cut in half between the cockpit and the aft end. I could see that it was going to be difficult to add detail and paint the model in one big integrated snapped-together piece, so at various points during the assembly, major components were cut in half with a razor saw to facilitate painting and detailing. The MPC 1/94 scale STAR WARS B-Wing Fighter is a snap-together kit, but I didn't let that keep me from providing my own entertainment. ![]() Illustrations by Hans Jenssen and Richard Chasemore. Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) - April 1, 2007 The Spacecraft and Vehicles of the Entire Star Wars Sagaīy David West Reynolds (Author) Hardcover The art work showing the B-Wing fighter sitting on the ground is (supposedly) on page 138 of this book (don't take my word for it - double-check that it's the correct book before picking up a copy!): If you would like to see it, you can probably find it on the internet, or you could support the artists who did the work by picking up a copy of their book. I would show you the art here, but it happens to be a copyrighted piece that was done for a STAR WARS book. That piece of art was the inspiration for this build, and it worked out rather well. So, I was most pleased, while looking on the internet for B-Wing color scheme information, to come across a piece of art work showing a B-Wing Starfighter sitting on the ground. One of the big problems with spaceship models is figuring out a realistic way to display them "in flight" in space, without resorting to some kind of cheesy-looking display stand that you know isn't supposed to be there, and you don't want to see it, but there it is, big as day, distracting from the model. The Museum of Flight science fiction display was the perfect excuse to drag it out and build it. The model is the old 1/94 scale MPC snap-together kit which I have had sitting in my stash of kits almost since the movie RotJ came out, but never quite got around to building. It was a great display, as there were a lot of models from other famous science fiction series and movies, and they were all well done. ( presented here ) from the old BBC marionette puppet show called "International Rescue". The other model a model I built for the display was Thunderbird No 2. This model was one of two models I built for the Northwest Scale Modelers Museum of Flight science fiction themed display called "FANTASTIC VOYAGES - The Hardware of Science Fiction", which was on display from November 5th, 2009 to February 4th, 2010. STAR WARS B-Wing Heavy Assault Starfighter
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