"X-Wing Scale Nebulon B Escort Frigate Review" Topic

It's glorious. Link: link

Mike from Space Rocks was awesome enough to send us the first Nebulon B Escort frigate off the production line in order to make it for our epic playthrough of the Heroes of the Aturi Cluster (Be sure to remember our code if you think you might order one! IFF2015 saves you 10%). When I cracked the box open, I literally "woo'd" at the top of my lungs due to sheer awesomeness. This thing is HUGE, and it's ready to go in seconds.

Wow.

Double wow for the price – £125.00 GBP!!!

Holy ….

Ahem. That is all kinds of awesome. :-)

That is very cool.

Oh the pew.

Dom! I was just looking at your side to see if any decals would work on this beasty :)

Nothing springs to mind, sorry – I've avoided sci-fi to date, as I'd prefer not to end up treading in any IP minefields.

So what sort of stats does that thing have for X-Wing?

…but in an awesome good way!

Nice but way too expensive for me.

That is pretty impressive, but so is the price.

$200 USD – $260 USD???

Looks like a good candidate for a scratchbuild project, with some doweling, or tubing, perhaps a shampoo bottle for the nose, and probably a coated foam block for the engine section.

Much more doable, if you have some spare time, and are short on funds.

Impressive…most impressive.

Probably cheaper to get a custom wooden one built from a supplier on eBay.

Wow Steve, that thing is awesome!

$210 USD is a steal. I'd much rather spend that than hours and hours to build and paint such a magnificent beast!

Oh, it's a steal alright……..

It's well out of my budget at the moment, but if I had cash spare I wouldn't think twice…. If I were to value my time at minimum wage, I know the "cost" of a scratch build that size and quality would run into many hundreds….

Of course the real question is, how does the pilot get into the attached X-Wing?

Force field tube isn't it? I do remember it being on the schematics in one of the books.

These plans suggest a docking tube –

That would explain how the Falcon is attached at the end of TESB. Just can't see how an X-Wing pilot gets in. The force field tube makes sense, but you still need the canopy to open.

Nerd alert: The Nebulon B is an Imperial Vessel, and those attachments would've been made to fit TIE fighters (with the hatch on the top) I assume. The Rebels probably had to heavily modify the docking tube to allow the fighters to connect.

If i had the cash I would have one ASAP

Steven, are you sure it is an Imperial Vessel because on Wiki they say it was also used by the rebel alliance in addition to the Imperial forces.

Common on both sides, but he's right that it was *designed* for the Empire, so docking collars and suchlike would be designed to fit Imperial kit, not Rebel.

So true, 'originally' this was intended to be an Emperial warship. But (as the story line goes) she turned out to be so versatile, a number of them were stolen by Alliance agents from their ship yards upon completion. Others were captured in combat, while a few crews just out right defected to the rebel cause. (You know they made Vader's Chirstmas List) LOL.

Now as for this 'miniature' (somehow that word doesnt seem to be proper for this monster). Its amazing to see this IN SCALE to X and Y wings. But like many of you, its just "Far, Far, Away" from my budget. (