Here’s my AMT/ERTL Star Wars Y-Wing starfighter, finally finished. I painted it in “Green Squadron” colours, for a change from the usual “Gold Squadron” Y-Wings (was Gold the Y-Wing squadron in the first SW film? - can’t remember, but I presume so), and weathered it heavily to bring out the surface detail.
The kit is intended as a “snap-together” one and so the fit and detail accuracy of some of the components leaves a lot to be desired. However, it still makes a nice model once assembled and painted (needed a lot of filler putty though for the gaps on the fuselage joins). Scale seems to be about 1/72 based on the size of the pilot figure, maybe a bit smaller.
Other than the colour scheme, and the fact that I didn’t use the decal sheet, the kit is built “out of the box”, though glued rather than “snapped” together!
The “flying base” is a bit useless, as the ship is so tail-heavy it tends to fall over unless balanced very carefully! However I managed to get it to stand up long enough to photograph it.
This is the exact same kit as mine, even the same box art.
Whilst it’s good value for £5, IMHO this kit is definitely -not- worth £23, from the point of view of size, detail level, and fit/quality - I’d rather put the money towards a SMT kit (assuming I could find one) than pay that much for it.
I have the A-wing Fighter and have the B-wing coming in pretty soon. Any ideas on how to do the A-wing it was sealed when I got it but when I opened it it was missing the decals. and do you have any opinions on paint schemes.
Great job on this kit… I also agree it is one of the better looking designs… The colours are a nice change also… I would suggest doing away with the base and building your own, those bases are rubbish hey… But again, nice job… If you have built a Fine Molds X-Wing, you can use the spare astro droid decals for the droid on the Y-Wing… Nice little effect without having to paint it…
This thread is well over a year old and Drawde hasn’t logged on since October 2005 (hope he’s OK), so I doubt he’s going to respond. Of course, plenty of other folks here can probably help you with your questions.
Btw what scale are the AMT star wars kits anyways I still have the Star Destroyer I built years ago plus the Star Destroyer with the Fiber Optic kit. And does anyone have extra decals for the AMT A-wing as I stated earlier it was missing from the kit and the kit was mint in the box.
