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    Great idea! Also, I've restored the dropbox link.
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    At the threat of community scorn for necroing this thread: Yeah.. I've noticed the files no longer work. Thanks Dropbox for changing all the public links to private! It is now fixed.
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    For some reason, this creation makes me smile loads. Good job
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    Collecting shuttle parts ... tedious business

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    Looks intereseting. PM sent :)
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    9000 parts... yeah.. that would be expensive in gold bricks! It is a lovely bust though, so I think we can forgive you for painting bricks
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    Another excellent rendition. If you'd build all the aircraft you've posted here, you'd have serious kick-megablocks shelve to show of! Question: what is with the green front of the windshield?
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    That's an impressive render, Nachapon! It must've taken ages to parse, let alone render...
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    I concur with Eurotrash: I'm really digging the sub; it's as smooth as it should be. Would look great on a desk as well
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    Lovely Phantoms! Easily my favorite Cold War fighter and I think you've done it justice. Slight point of critique: maybe include some pictures in the topic you've started rather than just a hyperlink? Then we know what to expect.
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    I haven't seen the Hasbro model, but does the original even have landing gear? I've been googling a bit, but there's no reference or hint of the B-Wing having any landing gear other than resting on it's S-foils. There's no mention of it in the Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (= my bible) either.
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    I'm a little gutted... like 2 weeks ago a local toystore had two for the price of one on selected Star Wars lego sets. And this one was among them...
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    That's a clever idea! It would seem that the newer part (no. 10312) has the square cut-outs (at least according to Bricklink) It seems I'm gonna have a pretty long list of modifications to do on my model!
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    These look awesome indeed. We can start a B-Wing club if this keeps up! Sharing is caring! Post away. I'm curious to see what modifications you did
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    I love this... it made me giggle and that's a good thing.
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    That's a shame :) It looks really sleek. I love how you've incorporated the cockpit canopy.
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    I've been a little slow on this forum recently, but I just have to say: great mod! Looks like I'm gonna need to adjust my shelved one.
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    Great! This is precisely the feedback I was hoping for. I haven't been the most active builder recently (something to do with finishing up my master's thesis while having a regular job), but now that I have some more time, I'll update the model using your feedback. Thanks for sharing!
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    TIE DEFENDER

    krispy replied to CCOOK's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    Agreed, I never thought about using that small corner piece when framing the wings. And the fact that your pylons are rounded is especially nice. Well done! I might need to rebuild my defender using this
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    I agree! It looks totally awesome Havoc. Makes me happy to see other ppl are able to build it too
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    Awesome collection Bear!
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    I like it a lot! Especially the rear part is awesome. The front looks a little bulky to me as well, but as Bob said:
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    Hear hear! That's the difficulty of designing a model. But it really payoffs when you're building... I've added some studio shots to give you an impression of what it looks like when it's done. I've also updated the model file as I've found I had overlooked some things.
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    Too add a little to the discussion: I had some ideas regarding the little tail fins. Here's a comparison of them with the original as well. Comparision of wing modification ideas by Krispy's brick stuff, on Flickr Mod. A is fully LDD proof and has the wings mounted on headlights (pretty straight forward). Mod. B Is a far-out-there mod; replacing the rear rings and actually using the new ring to mount the fins on. Mod. C is like Mod. A, but assumes you press the 1x8 plate of the wings into the underlying 2x2 plate (illustrated here). This is an illegal connection in LDD, but in practice it works. All in all, I'm not sure I'm too fond of the plates. They are thinner, but do lack in shape (the radius of the rear upper corner is actually too big) and overal smoothness. I am a little partial to Mod. C but I'll probably build the original. What do you guys think?
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    Not sure, but I can do a guesstimate. I usually split up my components in rares and commons. For the Y-Wing the major crux is this: I've found a shop in Germany that literally has hundreds of them, but you can only buy them in sets of 10. As they cost about $1.5 each, that's $15 for just those copper hoses (I'll probably end up buying them, but right now the A-Wing has taken up this months lego budget)! So that basicly takes care of the rare parts; for the Y-Wing I'd say about $20. To get a rough estimate the cost (in euro's mind you) of the common parts I usually just multiply the number of parts by 12 euro cents. That's 10 cents for the part and 2 cents overhead (shipping, paypal costs, small order markup etc.). In my experience the initial estimate may seem high, but (unfortunately) it has always been close to the mark for me. The shipping costs are always higher than you expect as you'll have many orders for a model this size. This way you're not fooling yourself. In dollars I'd multiply the number of parts by $0.15. The Y-Wing has around 1250 parts (I believe the exact number is 1257 including the rare parts), so that would mean the common parts will cost you about $190 (or 150 euros). That means the total cost is about $210 or 165 euros if you Bricklink the entire model. Bear in mind that this is a pessimistic estimate and that the actual cost may be lower as a big portion of the parts are very common (like the gray headlights); provided you find them at a good price of course. But expect to pay this much: my B-Wing model has about 1000 parts and it ran me about $160 as I didn't have many parts to start with and had to Bricklink a lot of them.
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