T-6 Jedi Shuttle (#7931)

Another great deal on Bricklink, less than half the shelf price because the minifigures weren't included. That's okay, I have extra Jedi just sitting around not doing anything. And while the Shaak Ti and Saesee Tiin minifigs are pretty cool and new to this set, Obiwan hasn't been in very many sets in the past, but another Anakin figure?? Good grief, he seems to be a standard filler in most of the sets.

Anyhow, this is another installment in the Clone Wars line. This one has a really good "swoosh factor" and was a fairly straight-forward build. It came in right before I was heading out of town for a few days so I actually put it together in my hotel room.

Here's the front view. I was very happy to see the canopy was printed as opposed to needing stickers. I also like how they used the white arch pieces for the engine housing on the back.

The profile view. There is a folding landing gear on the bottom which is surprisingly stable.

The cockpit is designed to serve as an escape pod and seats two Jedi (so long as they don't have their lightsabers in-hand). Mace Windu is riding shot-gun with Kit Fisto, but will most likely give up his seat to Aayla Secura once I open my Clone Turbo Tank.

Here are the wings in flight mode. The small gear wheel on the bottom does a great job of keeping the wings from flopping around while in flight. There are two flick-fire missiles which are fired when you pull back on the engine pods on the back. However, I thought this was annoying, so I secured the pods so they don't move and I don't have to go searching for the flick-fire missiles.

This one kept me entertained for the evenings I spent alone in the hotel room, although I'd recommend closing the curtains before you start flying around the room with your shuttle unless you want weird looks from people walking outside.

8037 - Y-Wing (modified)

Finally!! After weeks of delays that came after I'd get a Bricklink order in, only to realize I had missed a few critical pieces (ordered the wrong piece once too), it's finally done! I started working on the red Y-Wing variant back in November and got the final parts shipment today. I used some screen shots from Clone Wars as a basis for the coloring, but ran into a couple of glitches when Lego doesn't make the parts I needed in the right colors, so this is as close as I could get...

I didn't add any special features not found in the original, this one is the same as 8037, just with different colors. I wanted to go with dark red, but hardly any of the pieces were available in that color. I borrowed the Republic emblem stickers from the Clone Walker Battlepack set for the engine pods.

I used Commander Fox as the pilot (from #7681). He wasn't doing anything at the time, and he matches the color scheme.

Here's a crew photo... Commander Fox, a clone gunner, and a generic astromech droid (the body from the new V-Wing set, the head from the old V-Wing).

Weapon storage compartment... The white domes on the end of the engine pods are supposed to be red, but Lego doesn't make them in that color.

Rear-view... Feel free to oooh and aaaah.

Here are the two versions together... Missile launchers removed from both (well, technically the red one never had the launcher).

Now I just have to find a place to put it until I put up the new shelf. I'm quickly running out of parking spaces...