New to Eurobricks and some Y-wing 9495 mod

[Geebee]

Hi Falks,

I am Gilles, I am 41 and came out of my dark age only last year when one of my colleague offered me a planet series set (TIE interceptor and Death Star).

I stopped playing Lego a while ago when I was around 15 years old I think but always had a look at what Lego was doing and especially the star wars licence.

Giving my age, I am of course an OT fan :-) and started to purchase OT sets from March last year: Millenium Falcon 7965, X-wing, A-wing, Y-wing, TIE, some Endor battle set (x2). The only exception to the OT was getting the AT-TE (imperialized with black bricks to replace the dark red bricks) as a christmas present from my wife. Who thinks I am silly, but still loves me. Hopefully :-).

I purchased few days ago a MISB Tantive IV for 200€ which seems to be a descent price in here in old Europe. I love this ship, had very good time building it. I alredy added a retractable landing gear!

But my favorite ship is definitely the Y-wing. So I decided to customize it a bit. So let me share few pictures with you. Sorry for the low quality of the below pictures.

Cockpit (yes Luke in a Y-wing!)

Retractable Landing gear (front and rear but still not satisfy with rear):

Bottom view:

Removed flick fire missiles and thinner engine supports (please don't look at the diorama, this is a WIP)

And finally a side view:

Gil

Edited June 15, 2014 by Geebee

[Darth Nader]

Hello and welcome to Eurobricks. I really like all the little modifications you have done to the Y-Wing, you fixed the problems about the set. (Besides the curse of stickers, which I doubt anyone can) The pictures you have taken aren't bad at all, in fact they are pretty good. Hope you have a great time on Eurobricks and coming back out of your dark ages.

[Geebee]

Thanks Darth Nader!

[Only Sinner]

Good work with the mod, there Gilles. Looking forward to those Star Wars MOCs from you in the future.

[Geebee]

Thanks Only Sinner. Looking at the amazing Mocs I see on this forum, I will probably humbly focus first on modding the sets I have ;-).