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Re: #7191 UCS X-Wing brief review
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lugnet.starwars
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Sat, 2 Sep 2000 06:59:29 GMT
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> My X-Wing has been assembled for over a month now,
> and the slight upward angle has disappeared - presumably due to further
> settling. I bet the designers intended to leave that slight upward angle, • so
> that as the model settled, the wings would straighten out just right.
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> Jeff J
I can just see the header on the memo in the product development division,
"One month wait necessary for the wings to sag to their proper alignment.
Should the consumer be informed?"
What I can't figure out is why they didn't copy the method used in the ERTL
model, which was having opposing top and bottom wings attached through the
center of the model and rotating on a central cylinder. This made them
balance perfectly and, it seems to me, could have been easily accomplished
with Technic beams (has anyone tried this?). It would also have negated the
silly way the wings bounce up and down when you try to "swoosh" it around
the room. :-)
Dave
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| (...) Dave, your idea about the cylinders, yes I tried it in a minifig scale X-wing (I use the term minifig scale reluctantly) I built a couple of years ago. This ship was 4-studs wide for the entire length of the ship. I had built an X-wing with 1 (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Mine ended up angled slightly upwards, too. I think this is intentional. If you look closely at the instructions, when the mechanism is set to the position where the wings would be open, the top brackets are angled very high and the bottom (...) (24 years ago, 1-Sep-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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