Wednesday, January 16, 2013

F-toys B-wing

This came in recently, seems harder to find now, but they'll probably release another version of it!


The kit is like all the other Starfighters in the F-toys range is in 1/144 scale, it comes in two parts with a stand included; would have preferred a stand like that of the y-wing, but hey, you take what they give you! Out of the box, a basic paint job is applied, but really too clean.


It has lesser fine details than the Y-wing, but a larger surface area to cover. Lots of curved areas too. Too bad the S-foils don't close!


The stand included allows for 2 poses, the attack postion, or down on it's side. Oh, the cockpit does rotate, in many ways, it reminds me of the ERTL kit, just a scaled down version.


"The B-wing starfighter was one of the largest and most heavily armed starfighters/bombers in the Rebel Alliance's fleet. The name B-wing came from the craft's remote similarity in appearance to the lowercase letter "b", although its swordlike shape in attack mode has earned it the nickname "blade-wing", which may be another reason for the "b" prefix."

I LOVED flying the B-wing in the classic X-wing expansion, slightly faster than the Y-wing, agility sucks but man, can the shields take some damage! Used to use the B-wing to take out Star Destroyers and Nebulon B frigates Muahahahahah!

1 comment:

  1. Wow, did you do the paint job on this B-Wing? Looks amazing!

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