75248 A-Wing MOD

[Per_SW]

Hello everyone.

Although I'm not a sequel collector, I recently purchased the new 75248 Resistance A-Wing, seeing in it much potential to join my rebel fleet, in addition to having a nice colour scheme and price point (further discounted by a promotion) compared to the last incarnation of the ship.

The new RZ-2 has some glaring differences compared to the RZ-1, such as a flatter "nose", but as far as I could tell on the LEGO version they mainly amounted to a slightly steeper angle of the hull and the lack of a cargo/engine compartment behind the cockpit. Liking the angle and not wanting to overhaul the entire ship, I just went through my spare parts bins and started working on the back of the model, and here's the result.

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As you can see I moved the cockpit ahead by one stud and unfortunately I had to remove the grilled 1x2 slopes for a couple of cheese slopes. The 1x2 slopes can be easily kept by removing the spring-loaded shooters mechanism, but I opted to keep it for the time being.

For the back of the ship I recreated the design from 75175 using the 1x3 wedges, managing to keep the two stickered tiles, but for the actual cargo space I had to remove the 2x6 brick, creating the wanted space, using two 2x2 bricks fill the gaps and added or reused some parts to get the needed height.

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The main visible difference is the back cover, a quite simple build similar to the one in 75175 for its use of the 4x4x1 curved wedge. Would that I had the piece in dark green, but then again I feel that white is still a good option.

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The last detail was adding a control panel in the cockpit, giving the pilot something to actually fly the ship with. I also seized the occasion to add a physical control yoke to my 75175, which was sitting next to the working area for reference.

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Finally, here's a couple of shots of the two ships togetheer for comparison

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As always any feedback is much appreciated, I hope you enojyed.

 

[Glassjaw]

I think you’ve done a really good job and you’ve shown it well with some pictures! If I get my hands on this model I’ll probably do something similar, good work!