1:06: The fact is, the Y-Wings didn’t _lose_ their paneling, so to speak. They had sleek cowlings on them, as seen in the Clone Wars and Rebels. However, when the Rebel Alliance got their hands on them, they quickly learned that these starfighters were particularly unstable crafts. After every battle, their mechanics had to open up the Y-Wings to make sure nothing was wrong. *They had to.* Often, there would be issues with the upper gun, which was often an ion cannon (although it could be replaced with a regular laser cannon), because such weapons are very fragile and easy to misalign. So easy, that sometimes the minimal stress that general space travel put on them was enough to mandate maintenance in order for them to regain their functionality. Now, none of these issues would normally be very large, except for those blasted cowlings. They were difficult to remove and replace, and were the topic of many a Rebel mechanic’s afternoon gripe. After a while, the Alliance heard their men’s complaints, and ordered that the cowlings be permanently removed on every part of the ship except the cockpit. They left the cowlings on the cockpit because they also served as a sort of armor plating. So you see, the Y-Wings didn’t lose their paneling, but merely had them removed to dramatically simplify maintenance.
that's one awesome Y-Wing On a sidenote: R2-D2 enters a Y-Wing from the top. I'm pretty sure I seen a Droid get loaded in a ship from the bottom, but can't remember where, when or what ship. Nerd facts: Besides plating (armor), they removed the bubble turret on top and replaced it with ion canons. While doing so they shortened the nacelle extensions making the Y-Wings 7,16 meters shorter (resulting in cheaper LEGO sets :D)
Yeah, the astromech legs actually poke out of the top of the astromech socket; I have no idea why he chose to have the astromech come in from the bottom
Now we need a clone wars variant of the y-wing by this designer, specifically the blue variant from S7E12 of The Clone Wars, and with a rotating turret
The y wings panels weren't lost or destroyed, they were taken off by the men who created them, as they found that is was easier for repairs and it made it lighter faster and more agile.
okay I see you guys saying this often and finally decided to speak up: the Y-wing you see in A New Hope etc is the BTL-A Y-wing. The version in the Clone Wars is the BTL-B. The original version is older both in our universe and in the Star Wars universe. The rebels were using ships that were that old. They didn't lose their plating; it's a completely different, older model with a different setup. They made improvements to the newer model to have this plating and everything.
@@BrickVault Yeah it is a bit ugly in my opinion too :D but MTT is still one of my favorites. Maybe because I'm a big fan of the droid army. Yep it is difficult but it is awesome to hear that you guys are thinking about making it :)
Finally it is here and man is this awesome! Thanks guys for bringing this out together with Jerac (man everytime your models are more perfect than the last one) I will sure get this beauty build soon!
I'd like to add few things, as the author. - Please don't try to lift the ship by the head. It will snap off. It is designed to do so, otherwise something would break in the head and would be difficult to fix. As it is now, the head will snap more or less cleanly and should be easy to reattach. - The droid comes from the bottom because I wanted that square box around the head... yeah, not sure if it should go from the top or bottom, but this way it was easier. Also - to eject the droid all you need is to press on its head, it will push down the droid arms and actually lock on these, so you can extract the droid from half-hanging position. Thanks for great video, I am always waiting for these eagerly. I hope other viewers also like it. Cheers!
4:28 to answer your curiosity in the Clone Wars episode Nomad Droids R2 boards a Y-Wing from the top, and I think it holds true for chopper in the Rebels episode Steps Into Shadow
This Y-Wing is really awesome! My second favorite ship in Star Wars, I remember when I got the very first Lego Y-Wing in 1999, it was cool by those days standards, but after all the others that have been built in later years, it's really evolved since then! Nice new model, guys!
Last I checked, the astromechs are top loaded in Y-Wings, just like in X-Wings. The only bottom loading ships I can think of are the N-1 Starfighter, and possibly the E-Wing (although I'm not sure about that)
To keep my UCS Y-Wing, or source it to build this one? *Sigh*, such a tough decision! Excellent work as always Jerac! Have already built 3 of your designs (TIE Fighter, Advanced, and Bomber) and plan to do even more! Love your incredible detail while maintaining good model stability for MOC's. Personally like the brown pipes but feel like there wouldn't be enough color variation in the body to "de-saturate" the brown, if that makes sense. Maybe a different color? Pearl gold maybe? At least for most of the piping minus the parts that don't come in that color, then you could use brown for those. What in the world could you possibly do next?! A TIE Droid perhaps? A V-Wing (airspeeder, not the Clone Wars era one)? Personally I would be incredibly excited to see a TIE Hunter, though that might not be possible at that wing size with how small the pivots for the S-Foils would have to be. Maybe a TIE Silencer? Now that would be sick. Always excited to see you next creation, and I'm sure I'll end up buying the instructions as well. :)
Iirc, originally the Y-Wing squadron was intended to be Red Squadron while the X-Wing squadron was Blue Squadron. This changed after ILM realized that the blue color scheme wouldn’t work for the scene given that the special effects were done using blue screens. Hence why the life-size mockup was originally painted red, with the change to gold happening after construction.
There is gonna be a day when I save up enough money to buy about half of the brickvault catalog. I hope all of the views me and everyone else give to yall gets you a bit of that sweet youtube money to keep making these awesome mocs!
If I ever find the spare change for this I think I'd go for a mix between the piping colors. Maybe introduce a few more colors into the greebling as well. As is it feels a bit too polarizing to properly appear "dirty" in my eyes
Looks awesome Jack! Still have the UCS Y-wing in my back log so I may have to build that before sourcing the parts for this bad boy!. Tell Ramone to keep up the good work!!😉
I don't think I could call this minifig scale, it's actually overscaled by quite a sizable margin. First we must establish how long an in-universe BTL A4 is, which is 16.4 meters. Looking it up on google provides the incorrect 23.4 meters, which is the length of the BTL B, or the clone wars Y-Wing. From what I can see it looks like this model is within the realm of 50-60 studs long, so for the purpose of precision I'll guestimate a 55 stud length. A bare bones minifig is roughly five studs tall, which means this Y-Wing has a ratio of 55/5 or 11 to minifigs. Applying the same ratio to the Y-Wing's true length puts a minifig's height in relation to the model at 1.5 meters tall or 4 foot 10 inches, which is a full foot shorter than the US national average height. This means that this Y-Wing model has actually been upscaled by 20%. If we are after true minifig scale we can reverse the process starting with setting a minifig's height; 5.9 feet is the average so we'll go with that. The ratio between a Y-Wing and this height is 16.4/7.8 or 9.1. 9.1 times 5 studs gives us a final stud length for a true minifig scale A4 of 46 studs long. Surprisingly this is actually shorter than the 2017 lego set, which has a length of 49 studs. So even the official lego set has been overscaled by a bit! Funny enough, it is actually the 1999 Y-Wing that comes the closest at 45 studs long. Applying the same logic to the other three OT fighters, we get these lengths: A-Wing RZ-1 - 19 studs B-Wing SF-01 - 48 studs X-Wing T-65B - 34 studs (ironically also the exact length of 1999 X-Wing) Now, of course, this doesn't mean this is a bad model. It's so far from a bad model the measuring tape ran out 10 miles ago. The detail and proportionalities are absolutely immaculate. All I'm saying is that it's a bit big, which is a fine substitue for detail.
Tie fighters were originally blue and black but the blue screen just mad them look grey and black. The original Lego tie fighter sets were blue and black.
Damnn do I get the Ghost or these four? Also would love to see a Clone Wars Y-wing maybe customizing this to a Scum color scheme will do.A V-19, V-wing And Z-95 could be cool too in Black Sun colors of course. Also the smaller A5 Juggernaut.
I got to say, at 5:5, I largely prefer this Y wing cokpit to the actual cokpit of their Y wing. I think its way more accurate and integrated to the entire build.
Nice model, though I felt from the beginning that somegint looked strange. The detailing around the main body and cockpit is amazing as always, but the nacelles look off. After comparing with some blueprints, I think both the nacelles themselves, as well as the pylons to the aft engine rings, are way too short to be proportionate. They also seem to be slightly too big in terms of diameter.
Nacelles are okay but now when I think of that, they could be moved one stud back. Pylons indeed are too short - this is because of available options for them being really, really wrong. Hm hmm hmmm.... Thanks for input!
That is amazing but guys it would be so cool to make a t 70/75 x wing the y wing engines at the end of the ship would be good for the quad engines you could make it in several colors plus Poe's orange and black with a extra build to make his make shift sunlight engine
Uuh I maybe wrong about this but I think the rebellion intentionally removed the panels near the engines to be fixed faster and I think the caused a lot of drag for the engines
Just realized I missed out on the opportunity to call it the DIY-wing in the video. Sincere apologies to everyone
Is he done with the at te dropship
@@tchallawakanda5889 Sorry, didn't even start.
@@Scharnvirk what did you didn t start
Im stil waiting for minifiguri scale starkiler base
Oof
Cant wait to see the progress on the minifig scale death star you guys are making!
lol
Would be about 100 meters wide
"The target area is only two centimeters wide..."
That would be a minimum 3.11 km in diameter.
That would be the size of Time Square
1:06: The fact is, the Y-Wings didn’t _lose_ their paneling, so to speak.
They had sleek cowlings on them, as seen in the Clone Wars and Rebels.
However, when the Rebel Alliance got their hands on them, they quickly learned that these starfighters were particularly unstable crafts. After every battle, their mechanics had to open up the Y-Wings to make sure nothing was wrong. *They had to.*
Often, there would be issues with the upper gun, which was often an ion cannon (although it could be replaced with a regular laser cannon), because such weapons are very fragile and easy to misalign. So easy, that sometimes the minimal stress that general space travel put on them was enough to mandate maintenance in order for them to regain their functionality.
Now, none of these issues would normally be very large, except for those blasted cowlings. They were difficult to remove and replace, and were the topic of many a Rebel mechanic’s afternoon gripe.
After a while, the Alliance heard their men’s complaints, and ordered that the cowlings be permanently removed on every part of the ship except the cockpit. They left the cowlings on the cockpit because they also served as a sort of armor plating.
So you see, the Y-Wings didn’t lose their paneling, but merely had them removed to dramatically simplify maintenance.
You really know your sw ships
@@Tubular_DudeMan Thanks! I really like the Y-Wing. I know it better than most other Star Wars craft.
You belong in Gold Squadron
@@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming Thanks!
If you play Squadrons, I wouldn't mind being your X-Wing backup in attacking a Star Destroyer
I'm still waiting for the minifig scale star destroyer
It would new 40m long
Yeah I know
Super star destroyer 😂
Tanner Death Star would be better
They’re working on a Minifig scale Tantive IV
that's one awesome Y-Wing
On a sidenote: R2-D2 enters a Y-Wing from the top. I'm pretty sure I seen a Droid get loaded in a ship from the bottom, but can't remember where, when or what ship.
Nerd facts: Besides plating (armor), they removed the bubble turret on top and replaced it with ion canons.
While doing so they shortened the nacelle extensions making the Y-Wings 7,16 meters shorter (resulting in cheaper LEGO sets :D)
Yeah, the astromech legs actually poke out of the top of the astromech socket; I have no idea why he chose to have the astromech come in from the bottom
I’d like to see a Z-95 (classic, not clone), Droid Gunship, Tie Silencer, Tie Striker, Tie Brute... and release that Phantom II!
A Z-95 in Black Sun Syndicate colors?
I would love a custom AT-ST to go along with the other walkers in the shop
Now we need a clone wars variant of the y-wing by this designer, specifically the blue variant from S7E12 of The Clone Wars, and with a rotating turret
One day I'll buy all of those instructions and parts and build every one of this ships !
Dang l know right
Sadly I'm poor and wish I was rich
Not until i do first
The y wings panels weren't lost or destroyed, they were taken off by the men who created them, as they found that is was easier for repairs and it made it lighter faster and more agile.
Any progress on the Republic Dropship for the AT-TE?
Your write dropship im buying it when its in the store
I believe it's out of the digital phase and David is currently building it IRL to test its strength :)
@@BrickVault thanks for saying
I didn't even realize the tan feeling more realistic until you mentioned it, you rock
I am really impressed about all the detail in the cockpit and the slope of the front of the ship
okay I see you guys saying this often and finally decided to speak up: the Y-wing you see in A New Hope etc is the BTL-A Y-wing. The version in the Clone Wars is the BTL-B. The original version is older both in our universe and in the Star Wars universe. The rebels were using ships that were that old. They didn't lose their plating; it's a completely different, older model with a different setup. They made improvements to the newer model to have this plating and everything.
This custom build definitely the best LEGO Y-wing I have ever seen
Nice work!! Can we have MTT? I started to make my own.... but i think you guys Can make even better version of it.
personally I like the MTT and my brother thinks it's ugly. It's a difficult one to get right, but I think it would be awesome to try
@@BrickVault Yeah it is a bit ugly in my opinion too :D but MTT is still one of my favorites. Maybe because I'm a big fan of the droid army.
Yep it is difficult but it is awesome to hear that you guys are thinking about making it :)
BrickVault you could start out with the support craft that carry droids into the field.
Honestly this is my favorite of the rebel fighters. Both Brickvault and Star Wars!
This y wing is definitely next level 😍👍👌
WoW this is one of your best Mocs so far
It is beautiful! The building technices, the angles the builder managed to capture.... everything!
Very nice set-glad to see ppl stepping in and making alternatives Incase LEGO misses the mark.
A full-paneled version would be awesome
Great looking y-wing, it’s the best one I’ve ever seen. Also, I would like to see an at-ap and at-st in the web store.
Oh my I just finished building this. What a design!!! It looks absolutely amazing.
The gray minifigure arm greebling is genius
Finally it is here and man is this awesome!
Thanks guys for bringing this out together with Jerac (man everytime your models are more perfect than the last one)
I will sure get this beauty build soon!
I'd like to add few things, as the author.
- Please don't try to lift the ship by the head. It will snap off. It is designed to do so, otherwise something would break in the head and would be difficult to fix. As it is now, the head will snap more or less cleanly and should be easy to reattach.
- The droid comes from the bottom because I wanted that square box around the head... yeah, not sure if it should go from the top or bottom, but this way it was easier. Also - to eject the droid all you need is to press on its head, it will push down the droid arms and actually lock on these, so you can extract the droid from half-hanging position.
Thanks for great video, I am always waiting for these eagerly. I hope other viewers also like it.
Cheers!
Looks absolutely amazing!
4:28 to answer your curiosity in the Clone Wars episode Nomad Droids R2 boards a Y-Wing from the top, and I think it holds true for chopper in the Rebels episode Steps Into Shadow
This Y-Wing is really awesome! My second favorite ship in Star Wars, I remember when I got the very first Lego Y-Wing in 1999, it was cool by those days standards, but after all the others that have been built in later years, it's really evolved since then! Nice new model, guys!
Whats your first?
Impressive. Most impressive.
Awesome! Definitely prefer the tan pipes!
:)
holy, there a lot of illegal building techniques... damn i love it
I think a Tie Silencer would be really great from you guys!
I have a quick suggestion, please make a clone wars y-wing. Thank you! I hope you see this
Last I checked, the astromechs are top loaded in Y-Wings, just like in X-Wings. The only bottom loading ships I can think of are the N-1 Starfighter, and possibly the E-Wing (although I'm not sure about that)
i would love to see a BTL-B Y wing/Clone Wars Y wing
Great. Waited for so long to build this. Great work 👍👍👍👍
please you HAVE to make the republic y-wing and the republic z-95
Beautiful
Id love to see an attempt at a minifig scale clone wars y-wing
You just made me regret buying the UCS y wing last year.
I could have used that money to buy this, damn it
Should be able to transfer a good chunk of the parts
Amazing work as usual !
This is the last piece of the rebel fleet I’ve been waiting for
The only y wing that I would love to see would be the republic y wing.
You should make a Clone Wars Y-wing
You should make an armored/clone wars version
To keep my UCS Y-Wing, or source it to build this one? *Sigh*, such a tough decision!
Excellent work as always Jerac! Have already built 3 of your designs (TIE Fighter, Advanced, and Bomber) and plan to do even more! Love your incredible detail while maintaining good model stability for MOC's. Personally like the brown pipes but feel like there wouldn't be enough color variation in the body to "de-saturate" the brown, if that makes sense. Maybe a different color? Pearl gold maybe? At least for most of the piping minus the parts that don't come in that color, then you could use brown for those.
What in the world could you possibly do next?! A TIE Droid perhaps? A V-Wing (airspeeder, not the Clone Wars era one)? Personally I would be incredibly excited to see a TIE Hunter, though that might not be possible at that wing size with how small the pivots for the S-Foils would have to be. Maybe a TIE Silencer? Now that would be sick.
Always excited to see you next creation, and I'm sure I'll end up buying the instructions as well. :)
yo i love it but to truly make this epic make the clone wars one 👌🏻 id love to see how the bubble turret would look
Lovely lovely models. Think I’ll be investing. Oh, and by the by, it’s one FELL swoop, sir, not one foul swoop 😉
4:26 The astromechs come in through the bottom in the Naboo N-1s, so that's not unheard of
So do they in T-70s, i doubt in Y-wings since they used to be armored so if they did have the feature it would probably be gone
That looks dope.
Iirc, originally the Y-Wing squadron was intended to be Red Squadron while the X-Wing squadron was Blue Squadron. This changed after ILM realized that the blue color scheme wouldn’t work for the scene given that the special effects were done using blue screens. Hence why the life-size mockup was originally painted red, with the change to gold happening after construction.
This is also why R2’s paint seems like it’s black in the trench run in ANH.
@@Slender_Man_186 Only in the real versions
There is gonna be a day when I save up enough money to buy about half of the brickvault catalog. I hope all of the views me and everyone else give to yall gets you a bit of that sweet youtube money to keep making these awesome mocs!
A T2-B repulsor Tank or T4-B would be nice to see.
If I ever find the spare change for this I think I'd go for a mix between the piping colors. Maybe introduce a few more colors into the greebling as well. As is it feels a bit too polarizing to properly appear "dirty" in my eyes
Can you please make a clone wars y-wing that would be awesome with the clone wars series + it will look good on shelves
I'm saving up for this y wing, maybe next month, I wana see if it's possible to modify it so the astromech sticks out a little farther
Looks awesome Jack! Still have the UCS Y-wing in my back log so I may have to build that before sourcing the parts for this bad boy!. Tell Ramone to keep up the good work!!😉
I don't think I could call this minifig scale, it's actually overscaled by quite a sizable margin.
First we must establish how long an in-universe BTL A4 is, which is 16.4 meters. Looking it up on google provides the incorrect 23.4 meters, which is the length of the BTL B, or the clone wars Y-Wing.
From what I can see it looks like this model is within the realm of 50-60 studs long, so for the purpose of precision I'll guestimate a 55 stud length. A bare bones minifig is roughly five studs tall, which means this Y-Wing has a ratio of 55/5 or 11 to minifigs. Applying the same ratio to the Y-Wing's true length puts a minifig's height in relation to the model at 1.5 meters tall or 4 foot 10 inches, which is a full foot shorter than the US national average height. This means that this Y-Wing model has actually been upscaled by 20%.
If we are after true minifig scale we can reverse the process starting with setting a minifig's height; 5.9 feet is the average so we'll go with that. The ratio between a Y-Wing and this height is 16.4/7.8 or 9.1. 9.1 times 5 studs gives us a final stud length for a true minifig scale A4 of 46 studs long. Surprisingly this is actually shorter than the 2017 lego set, which has a length of 49 studs. So even the official lego set has been overscaled by a bit! Funny enough, it is actually the 1999 Y-Wing that comes the closest at 45 studs long.
Applying the same logic to the other three OT fighters, we get these lengths:
A-Wing RZ-1 - 19 studs
B-Wing SF-01 - 48 studs
X-Wing T-65B - 34 studs (ironically also the exact length of 1999 X-Wing)
Now, of course, this doesn't mean this is a bad model. It's so far from a bad model the measuring tape ran out 10 miles ago. The detail and proportionalities are absolutely immaculate. All I'm saying is that it's a bit big, which is a fine substitue for detail.
You guys could make a rebel fleet out of the Y-wing A-wings and the ghost
I like the tan
this is epic
Beautiful, you guys should do an outrider ship next
figscale one would be my dream build. We've talked w designers and done some baseline measurements. Outside of that the big one is still just an idea
I worded that wrong, I mean Dash Rendars Outrider, outriders ship from marvel in fig scale would also be amazing though too
12:02 every now and then I fall apart
If you buy the thing on your store, does it come with the bricks, or just the instructions?
Amazing as always can't wait to build
7:34: Is the “Something out of place” the flag pieces clipped to tiles?
Tie fighters were originally blue and black but the blue screen just mad them look grey and black. The original Lego tie fighter sets were blue and black.
I´d like to see a T-70 in that build quality but I just can´t think of a canopy piece that would fit
Damnn do I get the Ghost or these four? Also would love to see a Clone Wars Y-wing maybe customizing this to a Scum color scheme will do.A V-19, V-wing And Z-95 could be cool too in Black Sun colors of course. Also the smaller A5 Juggernaut.
I honestly like the dark brown pipes.
That looks amazing!
To answer your questions, the yellow Y-wing is gold squadron...different squadrons had different colorings ..
I vaguely remember the y wing being a two seater and the cockpit detached from the thrusters
I think you should make a prequel era one
I got to say, at 5:5, I largely prefer this Y wing cokpit to the actual cokpit of their Y wing. I think its way more accurate and integrated to the entire build.
you should build historic vehicles so basically brick mania but better i’m so many ways
U guys should make a republic y wing
Swooshable
Hello brickvault,do you interesting to add light kit for Y-Wing Starfighter?
Also can you sell the rare pieces that normal people normally are less likely to have, I am thinking about getting instructions
Awesome
Please do Jedi starfighters!
I’m still waiting for y’all to do a Mandalorian Fang fighter (Protectorate Fang Fighter)
Dang that would be amazing!!!
I’m sorry if I’m asking for too much. Take care and stay healthy!
Nice model, though I felt from the beginning that somegint looked strange. The detailing around the main body and cockpit is amazing as always, but the nacelles look off. After comparing with some blueprints, I think both the nacelles themselves, as well as the pylons to the aft engine rings, are way too short to be proportionate. They also seem to be slightly too big in terms of diameter.
Nacelles are okay but now when I think of that, they could be moved one stud back. Pylons indeed are too short - this is because of available options for them being really, really wrong. Hm hmm hmmm.... Thanks for input!
I need to figure out how to build this on a college student budget I need like 3 of these for my home one moc
Is your Home Run moc going to be the length of home base to first base on a football field, or is it just going to be the hangar?
They should make a clone wars variant to go with their ark-1-70
Arc-170
That is amazing but guys it would be so cool to make a t 70/75 x wing the y wing engines at the end of the ship would be good for the quad engines you could make it in several colors plus Poe's orange and black with a extra build to make his make shift sunlight engine
Sick
It would be massive, but a close-to-mini-figure scale Sith Infiltrator from the Phantom Menace would be an awesome build!
Ok, fine i'll buy it. You're very good at selling stuff.
(brown pipe are better, the contrast is more interesting to the eyes.)
We need x wing t70 custom lego, lego's x wing t70 s-foils are inaccurate its disappointing
My favorite ot vehicle 😍
a suggestion is to make a minifig scale custom Halo pelican
Uuh I maybe wrong about this but I think the rebellion intentionally removed the panels near the engines to be fixed faster and I think the caused a lot of drag for the engines
They did. The ship was also lighter, meaning better acceleration in space.
What about a V-wing, eta-2 jedi starfighter, delta 7 starfighter, kom’rk class fighter.
R8ERN8TION52 I would love to see a minifig scaled eta 2, the play set doesn’t do it justice
"I've been looking forward to this"
Also tantive 5 update?
Was that Lonestar’s Eagle 5??? 😂