Vodnik

[MOD] Poe's X-Wing wing modification

Recommended Posts

The Poe's X-Wing is just beautiful in Lego form! :sweet:

But those wings are ugly... They barely resemble the real thing. The T-70 wings should close to a single thin wing surface with lower wing forming the front half and the rear half becoming the rear half. Well, actually they are not halves, as the rear / upper wings are wider than front / lower ones. Unfortunately TLG decided to only slightly modify the original T-65 design from their 9493, and as a result the upper and lower wings do not meet the way they should and there is actually an ugly see-through one plate wide gap between them!!! It just sucks... The spring shooters added to the wing tips also look ugly in my opinion.

TLG wing:

21568893099_1da175757e_o.jpg

Luckily the solution was quite simple. I used mostly parts from the set with just a few 1x2, 2x2, 2x4 and 2x6 black plates and a few grey Technic bushes added. Now my T-70 looks the way it should! Well, in my opinion of course :wink:

21729645506_c4f7cb7730_o.jpg

21133047394_403782c5d2_o.jpg

21765148791_2ac6c53c23_o.jpg

21744116682_bf91054183_o.jpg

21567891248_9e15e18511_o.jpg

21765155891_59cfee7e9c_o.jpg

21729644966_334b0c9a2c_o.jpg

21567763310_0e5db9b9fc_o.jpg

21567767310_cdba936037_c.jpg

21567763190_fe62440a24_c.jpg

21744124292_e2d35a020e_c.jpg

21765149001_4c784b6e93_c.jpg

21755758885_0af4b2fbdb_c.jpg

21568885149_7ce9aab940_c.jpg

21567891218_e37bd7b6f8_c.jpg

Edited by Vodnik

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Excellent, this looks really spot-on.

Thank you for the great pictures, good way to recreate the mod for others (like me)...

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Soooo much better! The difference between the wings was what I first noticed when the images were released. It's stopped me from picking up the set at this point, but now I just might and do your mod on it! So cool!

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Nice MOD, the whole wing thing bothered me from the beginning when I first saw the Lego images compared to the actual X-Wing. Nice that somebody figured out a way to MOD this. I'm sure more people will attempt this also. Pretty sure you can bet all that money burning a hole in our wallets that Lego will release a grey/blue version of the X-Wing as well that was in the trailer.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

It looks pretty nice. But the wings don't actually overlap on the real thing. They snap clean in half.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

It looks pretty nice. But the wings don't actually overlap on the real thing. They snap clean in half.

Yes, but in the Lego model the upper wing is based on a single 6 x 12 wedge plate. Making properly split wings would require replacing that part with a few smaller pieces and I wasn't interested in such change.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Hey, I did the same yesterday. Don't you mind if I open my own topic ?

Not at all, why would I? :)

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Nice. I guess most of the orange pieces you used come in the set right ?? I might try this

All orange parts are from the set.

Share this post


Link to post
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    No registered users viewing this page.