Hello Everyone!
Long-time EB member but admittedly I don’t make it over to the SW forum often.
So I have had this project on my mind for quite a while. Bought a second-hand UCS Imperial Shuttle many years ago and it just sat in my closet. Parts were donated for this guy here:
I just never got around to doing anything with the UCS model. Didn’t want to BL and build the original… too boring. However, with the remaining pieces I had a could easily do this:
Mounted it so as to appear as if it were coming out of the wall. Details are explained in the video below, but briefly I added a PF BB with two M PF motors to drive each wing. This replaced the manual operations of the wings that came out the rear of the model in the original. Used a 16L Technic brick as the main mounting point on the back, but also used one screw in the dorsal fin for a mount location as well. Works very well. Very firm.
I can have the display with the wings in any position. With the exception of taking out roughly the back quarter of the model, everything else remains the same.
Hope you enjoy!