You Can Build It: V-Wing Fighter MINI

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You Can Build It:
V-Wing Fighter MINI

by Christopher Deck

Hello! I am certainly glad we meet again in this issue. Today I want to present to you another vessel from the new Star Wars movie – Revenge of the Sith. Although the V-Wing has only a short appearance, it nevertheless is a nice starfighter to build. And we all know LEGO® released a system-scale V-Wing, so why not have a MINI version?

I’ve wanted to build a MINI V-Wing since I saw that the official MINI ARC-170 starfighter came with those nice trapezoid flags. Once I finally managed to get those flags, construction began. By using the trapezoid flags, the model would be much smaller than the presented version of a MINI V-Wing in the LEGO® Star Wars™ Video Game, which you certainly know. There, they used standard 2x4 wedge plates which made a rather large MINI model.

If you want to build this model, I will give you some more hints where to locate some parts. The cannons are “rigid hoses” with a length of 3 studs. They can be found in several LEGO Technic® sets. The nose piece is also called “Space Wing”. You will find plenty of these in Classic Space sets.

With this I call this model finished, and wish you happy building!

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