The first day I opened my core set, I was extremely disappointed at the quality of my X-wing miniature. The TIEs were fine, but my X-wing had twisted cannons and engines pointing in various directions. I took one look at that ship and exclaimed, "If the Rebels had flown ships like this, there's no way the Rebellion could have won against the Empire!" Granted, had I assembled and painted the miniatures myself it would have looked even worse.

Later I opened my Y-wing and found that the plastic base glued to the ship was crooked so my Y-wing is facing about 15 degrees to the left of the front of the stand.

I've since gotten over my disappointment, but I got to thinking, "I wonder what other anomalous ships are out there." So the purpose of this thread is not to bash FFG or complain about the quality of the miniatures (unless it's in really bad shape!). Instead, I'm just curious what variations exist out there in the overall quality of the ships. If you've got an interesting mutant ship, I'd love to hear about it! If you've got pictures, even better! I'll try to take photos of my ships and get them posted.

I got mostly good ones.  The only issues were some bent gun barrels on my Xs and several of my ships weren't quite straight.  Both issues were solved by a little careful tweaking.  Sorry you got a messed up one.

-DavicusPrime

DavicusPrime said:

No worries. Like I said, there's no way I could have done better, and I'm sure my imperfections are minor compared to some out there. I'm just really curious what the worst-model looks like.

I noticed the engines on my X-wings were all a little 'off' from where I would think they should be.  Also, all 4 of my X-Wings are about 5-10% off level (peg inserted at an angle), with all of them leaning to the left (all apparently trained by Han to list lazily to the left).  Nothing noticably wrong with any of my Ties.  Haven't really looked at my Tie advanced or Y-Wings yet though.

Pretty minor defects really and only noticable if I hold them right up close to my eyes.  On the game table I'd never notice it.

I got the starter set and found my X-Wing to be slightly tilted to the left so it looks like its banking.  Guess I got lucky with the quality on this one, but no doubt when I get my Y-Wing and TIE Advanced one will be a little sloppy.

DavicusPrime said:

My Y-Wing's engines are a little off, what did you do to tweak yours?

Thanks,

Luke

Just did a little corrective bending…  Nothing special.  A little displacement isn't worth breaking the model though.

-DavicusPrime

The biggest issue I have seen was on one of my friend's Y-wings.  The peg in the bottom was put in 180 degrees off.  So when set up, it faces the opposite direction from where it is supposed to.  At first we though that his son inserted one of the pegs wrong.  But when closely examined it we realized that it was the ship that caused the problem.  Its easily fixed by rotating the ship token in the other direction, but it is a little frustrating,

Roy

drkjedi35 said:

Whoa! That one wins so far.

One of my Tie-Fighters doesn't face straight forward and one of my Y-Wing's engines is off kilter and point slightly downward. The only one that really worries me is the TIE Advanced. It's very difficult to remove the peg from that model because of the tightness of the wings. Overall, I'm concerned about how difficult it is to take the pegs out of the ships. I already decided to leave the peg in one X-Wing as I am worried that the peg stub is going to come out of the ship.

My X-Wing has TIE Fighter wings.

qwertyuiop said:

That sounds ugly! . . . get it? Get it? . . . . . . . . I'll keep my day job.

Wait, you weren't be serious, right?

qwertyuiop said:

Pics or it didn't happen.

qwertyuiop said:

Funny, because I got a TIE fighter with X-Wing wings. The card had attack, defend, and hull of a TIE, but the shields and special ability an X-Wing.  I think they may be on to something.

Budgernaut said:

Of course I wasn't serious. This game isn't ready for TIE Uglies!

As you can see, my starter set X-Wing came with a battle damaged engine…