Uber Studio Scale X-Wing (Hasbro Hero Series "Star Wars Rebels" Toy)

[Troy Downen]

This is another alignment check for the wings, with brass tubes representing the length of the wing cannons once they are built. Yes, this will be Red 6, which is Jek Porkins’ ride.

Yes, I know; this doesn’t look like much progress for a full-day’s work, but it’s a totally re-built strongback (wooden block inside the starfighter) with an astromech slot and super-careful alignment to ensure (I hope) that everything is parallel. I believe that it is at this point.



As I mentioned, I also cut an astromech slot into the strongback, including small divots for those newer astromechs (like R5-D8 shown in the first panel below) that have wheels on the bottom of their feet.

As I test fit some astromechs that I had handy, I noticed that the R2 unit sat a bit lower within the slot. Maybe a bit hard to see here, but look at where the shoulders are relative to the top of the x-wing fuselage. I thought all astromechs from Hasbro had legs of the same length, but it turns out that some legs are actually significantly longer (or shorter) than others. I wonder why Hasbro doesn’t have just one leg mold from which all are made? Oh well…



OH NO! My feet don’t fit. Please don’t chop them off – I’ll be Jawa fodder! :-)



Actually, R5, my plan is to make a hatch directly in front of the astromech slot and have a styrene panel that I can pull off to get the droids in and out. I’ll work on that later.

So here’s a close-up of how R5-D8 fits within the astromech slot. What do you think; does he sit too high within the slot?