[MOD/MOC] 75172 Y-Wing "Comet"

[The_Tinkerer]

I have always liked the design/layout of the rebel Y-wing, but never got over how decrepit they looked, so I fixed it. This is my though for a future YV class Y-wing, which are faster, just as maneuverable, but not quite as heavily armed.

 

 

 

Edited January 29, 2020 by The_Tinkerer
Fixed photographs

[BEAVeR]

Great job, The_Tinkerer! Personally I'm a big fan of how worn out the original Y-wing looks, but I'm glad you didn't because your redesign is an absolute treat! I love that you did way more than just cover up the naked bits and really made the design our own. You switched the proportions around, made it a dual person cockpit (finally someone to man those guns!) and made everything look a bit sharper, right up to the engine nozzles! I really love the diamond shape you managed to get in there which plays really well of the printing on the cockpit and carries through in the V-shape at the back of the ship. Maybe making the front of the cockpit pointed rather than flat as the original would emphasize this point even more. Also, using round bricks or plates rather than the high panels to make up the engine nacelles could allow you to continue the shape of the blue 2x4 double wedges in the back. You already carried their shape through beautifully with those cheese slopes leading downward, so if you could continue it into the nacelles themselves, that would really make that work stand out even more. Also, something fun to experiment with could be to replace the white domes with an one of those car hood elements to really glue them to the body of the ship. The domes work well in the original because they stick out, but because of the tapering of your main body, the inside part of the dome is squeezed in a tight space in your creation. Really having it transition into the main body therefore would make your ship look even sleeker without betraying the original design.

In the end, you made a great redesign of the Y-wing that easily outclasses the Resistance Y-wing we got in the end. It's a perfect blend of faithfullness to the original with the general iconic shape and precense of panels and details on one hand, and fresh and original shaping on the other hand. It's a new classic, and all of that without fancy parts or techniques. You really are a gifted designer!

As for the pictures, I helped you out. For more information, check the spoiler below!

Spoiler

The easiest way to embed pictures is to host them on a dedicated site like Flickr, Bricksafe, ... on those websites, it's easy to access a URL to your image of a particular size. When making a post here on Eurobricks, you can then go to the bottom right corner where it says "Insert other media". Click that and select "Insert image from URL". There you can paste the URL you copied on the website, and you're done. Make sure that the image size is conform the site guidelines. You can also add a hyperlink to the source if you want. You can find more information in the "Forum information and help" subforum and in the FAQ

If you want to keep using Google Drive, it is possible but tricky. What I did in your post above is to go to the links you shared, opened up my web page inspector (ctrl+shift+c on Firefox on Windows) and then hovered over the image, which results in a section of code being highlighted in the inspector window with the page HTML. It says <img class="..." src="LINK" ...>, and I just copied that LINK and pasted it in your post. It even allowed me to adjust the size of the picture slightly by playing with the w and h parameters at the end of the link address. So it's definitely a bit finnicky, but at least it's possible.

 

[gotoAndLego]

I remember Anakin’s Y-Wing from Clone Wars was modern and clean looking.

[The_Tinkerer]

Those Y-wings are neat, but I prefer the 'cage' style engines.

[Brick-Wombat]

I like your upgrade! TRoS could have used some extra creativity like this. 

[SteamSewnEmpire]

This is really, really cool. Would love to build one myself.