Dameronian

Thanks JPN and atlas, Some pics with more blacked out engines and fuselage midsection, flared torpedo launchers, and cockpit with headrest and side consoles:

Beautiful! Best rendition of the engines I've seen!

Now look what you made me do...

I like this! Will mod mine in a similar way. So far I've only closed that gap in front of the cockpit by attaching the sloped piece under the cockpit in front of it on a 1x1brick with studs on the sides:

Thank you atlas, for the excellent suggestion! This is how the landing gear looks after that mod, it is now indeed truly flush when retracted:

Yesterday's ABC's FA tv trailer shows Poe's X Wing, aka Black Leader, for the first time in action, AFAIK:

I love this build! Keep it up!

Oh My God.. That is truly a thing of beauty!!!! Maybe slighty more taper on the front lower wings and thicker engine outlets, but its breathtaking, overall!

Final mods, and I'm 99% certain I'm not fiddling with this set anymore, I'm satisfied. - color pattern on wings and from the rear more accurate, with closer match top and bottom; -front landing gear recessed (flush when retracted); -engine intake cowling now uniform all around the circumference, without the original straight black slopes on the lower insides.

Final tweak to wing alignment. Wings almost perfectly flush, and therefore beautifully thin in closed position . Underside: Edit: added pic: canons now close as tight as physically possible on top of each other

Latest mod, after looking at some stills from the trailers as well as the Hasbro toys, I realize that the wing underside has more or less the same orange pattern as up top. Some swapping of internal invisible orange parts yielded enough extra orange plates to do this to the under side of the black upper wings: The top:

The two modded fighters discussed here, side by side

I've done the small mod to make the four fixed landing struts retractable, a mod many had already done on the older 7965. I've added a fifth central strut at the front for a bit more accuracy.

Back to the 75102, inspired by Billyamy, plates added in front of the cockpit to add the illusion of the slope on top of the nose

Sure. First off, this fighter is supposedly a version of the E-wing, and I moved the engines and wing canons to positions more in keeping with the E wing design. Also, the astromech is carried internally on an E wing, so I removed the droid compartment on top. Here we have a beautiful ship, a special forces E Wing of sorts, marred by a lot of bulky and unsightly technic pieces under the wings. With regards to the landing gear mods, I basically removed all the technic and axle parts below the wing, only retaining the wing hinges. To gain more friction in the wing hinges for manual adjustment, I substituted axles with pins. The wings now have to stay in the landing position on friction alone. Look closely at the rear landing gear: in its retracted postition it acts as a bump stop at the forward hinge for the downward movement of the wings to attack position. The bottom of the fighter is now also very flat. Very accurate to the original design and devoid of the cumbersome and bulky mechanism required for the move from landed to attack wing positions. So the landing gear is basically what locks the wings in attack position by not allowing downward movement any further than an E-wing like angle. This rear landing gear isn't the most elegant in its landing position. But it is nearly invisible when retracted. Ps: I moved the front landing gear forward, and basically put the taller front of the Poe X wing on this fighter and vice versa (for better allignment on both fighters) Landed wing and landing gear position: Landing gear retracted (and acting as a bump stop for the forward wing hinge): Gear retracted, wings up: Wings moved to attack position, a beautiful E wing fighter, which we'll probably never actually get from LEGO, and in a spectular color scheme to boot: These are the E wing proportions I tried to approximate:

Personally, i cant get over the scale conflict within this set, particularly the Tie fighters vs Minifigures in the main ship. I think Lego should take the route of the Avengers aircraft carrier on these types of sets

Last few tiny mods to make me happier. -Minor mods to cockpit, with side consoles and seat with headrest (forgot to take a pic) -shorter front landing strut for better alignment with the retractable rears -bb8 sits lower -pattern of orange on the wings a tiny bit more movie accurate -removed the engine intake grills again...(it adds texture but removes the effect of depth in the intake) Ps: you may have noticed that I moved lower wings forward one stud, and the uppers backward, for a more movie accurate overall wing profile

Very nice!

Wow Tyrell and all others in the "Pimp my T70" group (lol), who would have ever thought that the 75102 would undergo more mods than the Kylo shuttle! One day in the near future, i foresee that there will be no 75102s out there that are still in Lego factory condition Hahahaha! Keep the mod ideas coming! Oh, I just had to recreate that family picture of yours:

Last mod: I don't quite like the silver flat surface in the inlets (space air....) and put some black grating in

Thanks guys. The practical thing about these hinge plates is that the open wing configuration is the first click from the closed position, making adjustments really quick and easy. Last one, group pic with Jek 14s E Wing and a 75105 MF with just light grey plates and thickened mandibles. All have retractable landing gear mods of course, I'm so OCD about that hahaha

Hi all, I mocked up a full split wing mechanism earlier with conventional ratcheted hinge plates and retractable rear landing gear, and here's how things turned out. I love the look of the Psiaki wing mods but that's just too fragile for me. This thing is fully swooshable and doesn't go flappy in either open or closed wing configuration. Closed wing position is nice and gapless and doesn't bend when sitting on the landing gear. Previous mock up with hinges and landing gear, made with spare parts: And here's how it turned out: Landing gear retracted: Landing gear deployed:

There is also a second short teaser on StarWars Instagram (uploaded a day before the new main trailer above)

Full trailer is up! (and yes, the Kylo Ren shuttle mods seem correct...) Oh...and where is that Disney logo....

Here's a quick comparison of both sets mentioned: Like others, i like the older/current model better...