Dameronian Posted October 10, 2015 Posted October 10, 2015 (edited) Khatmorg, many thanks for your awesome efforts! You've inspired me to mock up a somewhat similar idea, with rachets assisted by some regular hinges for some extra friction, fully split yet completely sturdy wings, and nearly invisible retractable landing gear in its correct position. (I'm so OCD with landing gear, and this was the biggest single omission on the Poe X Wing IMO) With the added bonus that the wings and engine intakes close absolutely seamlessly. Just waiting for the grey ratchet plates to arrive for the build.(and then I'll make my own thread of course lol) Top: Bottom: Rear: Landing gear down: Edited October 10, 2015 by Dameronian Quote
Mercenary Fan Posted October 11, 2015 Posted October 11, 2015 are you able to show a detailed picture(s) of the retractable landing gear please ? I have the POE X-Wing but an rebuilding it because I find the black far too dark and don't like the rubber band Wing mechanism. This has come at just the right time. Quote
Dameronian Posted October 11, 2015 Posted October 11, 2015 (edited) are you able to show a detailed picture(s) of the retractable landing gear please ? I have the POE X-Wing but an rebuilding it because I find the black far too dark and don't like the rubber band Wing mechanism. This has come at just the right time. Sure, for reference, the three 2x3 plates alongside each other represent the black slopes of the engine cowling. These stay in place. The landing gear came of that truly horrible Plo Koon starfighter...so basically the landing gear sits below the curved engine cowl, and ends where the rubber band hook would sit, right alongside the engine outlet. Edited October 11, 2015 by Dameronian Quote
khatmorg Posted October 12, 2015 Author Posted October 12, 2015 (edited) are you able to show a detailed picture(s) of the retractable landing gear please ? Here's my version of the rear landing gear in case you're interested. Edited October 12, 2015 by khatmorg Quote
Dameronian Posted October 12, 2015 Posted October 12, 2015 Here's my version of the rear landing gear in case you're interested. Now thats a truly elegant solution! Quote
LegendaryArticuno Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 Looks good, I liked that you removed the Bionicle gear from the top of the ship... that always looked out of place to me. Quote
Veynom Posted October 19, 2015 Posted October 19, 2015 Being a fan of color swapping myself (see my A-wings and Y-wings), I can only applaud your job here. Very nice and wonderful result. Quote
ArchieNov Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) Thanks for the comments, much appreciated. The wings are mounted on the mechanism pictured below. It's based on psiaki's design. You could probably just copy his design brick for brick and it would still work great, I've personally never had problems with it in his T-65 design. In my real life version I used clips instead of ratcheted joints, since I don't have enough of those. Ratcheted joints are probably better though. I did keep the clips on the front thingymabobs as they wont fit 1x2 with the wings attached. The clips look pretty weird but the clutch power on those were greater than the other solution I had before. The red rocker plate is to illustrate the gap between the upper and lower wings. I didn't actually mount one exactly there, but I did put one beneath each of the top engines so they would rest on them (the flat bit) in closed mode. As for how much it cost me. Well I only had to bricklink the parts specific to 75102 (the silver bits and canopy) and most of the blue parts. The rest I already had on hand. It ended up costing me around 15 euro's altogether to build it (excluding whatever I paid for the parts I already had). Hi. Is there a chance that someone can help explain in more detail how to modify Poe's X-Wing in order to implement this wing mechanism? Like many others, I'm not a fan of the rubber band system and want to use an alternative. But I'm not an experienced modder and it seems that there's more involved to the process of actually replacing the existing parts in order to fit this into the X-Wing. For example, what parts need to me removed and where do these parts go? Edited October 26, 2015 by ArchieNov Quote
Ramses25 Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 Hello ! This blue T-70 X-Wing just look awesome ! I'm not a huge fan of the black/orange Poe's X-Wing, but I'll definitely build one of your blue X-Wing if I could ! Can you give us a part-list + instructions or a LDD build model to allow us to brickbuild it from nothing ? It would be very cool ! :D Thanks ! Ramses25 Quote
Cyanide-Tipped Posted November 24, 2015 Posted November 24, 2015 Not sure if the user is still around on the forums but a LDD would be great to have of the wing mechanism... Quote
khatmorg Posted November 24, 2015 Author Posted November 24, 2015 Can you give us a part-list + instructions or a LDD build model to allow us to brickbuild it from nothing ? Ramses25 I will not be doing that, I'm sorry. It's 90% TLG's design anyhow so you could take the LDD file here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=41226&st=4400#entry2349087, and paint it a different color as a starting point. Quote
Martinthegringo Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 its cool but i wish the driod area was not a BB unit but a R2 unit Quote
kisper Posted December 31, 2015 Posted December 31, 2015 I just saw that they might axtually do this release of ypur MOD in the summer sets of 2016 :) Quote
marvinblue Posted July 19, 2017 Posted July 19, 2017 On 11/10/2015 at 1:50 AM, Dameronian said: Khatmorg, many thanks for your awesome efforts! You've inspired me to mock up a somewhat similar idea, with rachets assisted by some regular hinges for some extra friction, fully split yet completely sturdy wings, and nearly invisible retractable landing gear in its correct position. (I'm so OCD with landing gear, and this was the biggest single omission on the Poe X Wing IMO) With the added bonus that the wings and engine intakes close absolutely seamlessly. Just waiting for the grey ratchet plates to arrive for the build.(and then I'll make my own thread of course lol) Top: Bottom: Rear: Landing gear down: Hi there! Just saw this thread. Any chance you could re-load these photos? I'm looking to do the same to my 75102. Thanks! Quote
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