Midi-Scale Y-Wing • Rear View - a photo on Flickriver

♦ Instructions available at BrickVault ♦

Introducing you to my latest Midi-Scale spaceship, the timeless Y-Wing from Episode IV - A New Hope! At 546 pieces, this compact and intricate model is barely wider than your average smartphone's height, but keeps a dense, detailed look and accurate proportions.

I initially made a first prototype more than a year ago but was unhappy with the half-baked, almost playset-ish scale. I took on the challenge again and recreated it entirely from scratch: it's now smaller, more accurate, and just better in every aspect.

Despite the small size, I did my best to capture the essence of the original ILM prop: tilted cockpit section, engines off-center relative to the thin support struts, asymmetrical greebles from top to bottom, cockpit turret...

Believe it or not, the deceptively simple shape of the body was not easy to capture at this scale: with such a tiny surface to work with, a subtle balance had to be struck between incorporating complex greebling and "drawing" an accurate body outline.

The cockpit section was a whole other beast, but once I figured out how to create the tapering, things clicked pretty fast. I managed to reproduce the slight downwards tilt, the yellow stripes on the fuselage, and the more discreet gray stripes on each side as well. I believe it's about as small as you can go when creating a Y-Wing cockpit without sacrificing crucial features and proportions!

This model comes with a removable stand. Although it being purely a display piece, its swooshability is very good. In addition to being cost-effective, I think it makes a nice desk model for anyone loving that ILM prop look, with a small space footprint.

► Instructions for the Y-Wing are available at BrickVault!

Taken on: January 24, 2024

Tags:

lego

lego star wars

my own creation

build

minifig

microfig

Y-Wing

A New Hope

Episode 4

original trilogy

trilogy

SNOT

instructions

BrickVault

Midi-Scale

ILM

prop

model

toy

toys

design

miniature

replica

Luke Skywalker

collector

UCS

legospace

legoworld

lego moc

BTL-A4

BTL Y-Wing

Death Star

starfighter

jet

spaceship

ship

spacecraft

toy photography

bricks

photography

modeling « less

Sets appears in: • Y-Wing • Midi-Scale

Groups appears in: • I Made it Myself • LEGO more » • Star Wars • Science Fiction Unleashed • Lego Adventure • Star wars stuff • Star Wars Lego • Star Wars Fans United • LEGO Microspacetopia • Eurobricks • LEGO Art • Lego!Lego!Lego! • LEGO Star Wars • Lego Sci-fi • SCI-LUG • Star Wars Lego Group • Lego System (SPACE) • Lego MOC • Wants To be Blogged on The Brothers Brick • LEGO-MANIA • LEGO STAR WARS™ • Eurobricks Star Wars Forum • LEGO S.W • Lego Creations And Vignettes • The LEGO Flickr Community! • Lego: Anything and Everything • only LEGO STAR WARS • BeyondtheBrick • LEGO. • Recognition Of Great MOCs • LEGO without limits • Awesome Lego Stuff! • A LEGO Life • EiA LEGO! • Brickzlab « less

Stats: 3,761 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder