BANDAI Hobby Star Wars 1/72 Y-Wing Starfighter Building Kit

The media could not be loaded. Took a while to get here but my God what a fantastic Scale Model. Absolutely worth the wait.This is the first scale Model I've ever built and Painted. I'm absolutely blown away by it's detail, ease of assembly, instructions and the outcome. I've uploaded a full video of the build (on my channel) which you can find by searching for TheThorpester. I'm looking forward to doing the X-Wing and would love to get the Falcon!

Went together with no major issues. I had to sand down some parts as the fit was so tight i risked breaking the model. The pipe work on the back of the model was fiddly but I kept the sprues warm and none broke, however, be carefully when handling the model after affixing the pipes as they are fragile. A nice touch having the choice of two pilots and two astromech droids to choose from. A fantastic kit!

Excellent model kit very well detailed the fine moulds/revell model is also a very good model but the Bandai has more detail and has sharper moulding detail it is also cheaper than the fine mould/revell kit. delivery was also well ahead of proposed date.direct from Japan,recommended

Fantastic kit, well fiddly and tiny parts, had to replace to broken bits of piping but that was my fault. Handy hint, don't fit the side pod engine on until you have placed all piping on the support wings, ignore what the planes say about this. For a kit only being 1:72 I was surprised by the size of the kit, with laser beams inserted its 30 cm long, Nice! You also get three pilot figures and two tiny (amazingly detailed) R2 units, which was nice.

All Bandai model kits are easy to put together without any need to understand Japanese. I would recommend Bandai Star Wars kits to modelers, collectors and fans alike.This particular model is a little tricky and has a lot of small pieces. The detail is excellent and the finished model looks amazing. The kits are snap fit and you shouldn't need glue. Given the number of small and hard to fit pieces I would recommend having glue to hand just in case.

I knew this kit would be good but it blew me away with the detail. Definitely for an experienced maker with steady hands and good eyesight as you have to attach the pipes separately. Fantastic kit.

Amazing model but be careful if ordering within the UK as I was charged 50% customs which makes it cheaper to buy directly from UK seller.

Kit is perfect, snaps together so very little glue required, I chose to do mine as a very distressed "post deathstar run" look and obviously painted quite a lot but it came out very nicely, it's a huge shame however that this didn't come with a couple of ground crew and some proton torpedoes on a cart, that would have been great to have around the y-wing while it's down on its landing gear...