We all saw it in our Empire Strikes Back Sketchbook and thought it was super cool: Joe Johnston's vision of a Rebel snowspeeder made out of a spare Y-Wing cockpit pod.
Well, I had TWO SMT resin Y-wings at the time, and there was no way I was going to do THAT again (it's a huge chunk of resin) so...
I think it's a true statement to say that the only kit pieces I used were the pod itself and the cockpit piece. And the little round "this was where the turret was" round thingie on the back roof of the canopy. Everything else was snipped from styrene, and maybe some solder for small pipes.
I remember using naughty words when I realized I had glued the canopy framing together without painting the interior edges.
As often typical for me, I went straight from "can I do this?" fooling around to "holy crap, I'm doing it." midway through, so very little measurement. Most everything is by eye.
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