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PLUS all those digital greeblies! Who doesnвЂ™t want to see greeblies in Star Wars? Since the ship doesnвЂ™t have visible torpedo launch tubes, weвЂ™ve marked those as optional extras.Д¬hris Reiff: Drawing the blueprints for the new Y was a blastвЂ¦ With the reference we use and the level of detail we are including I could really get a sense for how hard the modelers and designers worked to make these new designs reference and complement the classic trilogy ships, as well as early Cantwell and McQuarrie design cues.

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Fortunately, Lucasfilm came through, and weвЂ™re all very pleased that our manual offers Star Wars fans something of an exclusive preview of the BTA-NR2 Y-wing.Д¬hris Trevas: Drawing and labeling the new Y-wing blueprints gave us a chance to note its similarities and differences compared to the classic Y-wing. Ryder Windham:В The moment Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas noticed a Y-wing starfighter on an advance poster for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, they became obsessed with including the Resistance Y-wing in the Rebel Starfighters OwnerвЂ™s Workshop Manual, even though we had no idea whether Lucasfilm would provide information and high-resolution images of the new Y-wing in time for us to meet our deadline for Haynes Publishing. One of these days weвЂ™ll have to do a book just about the warning labels and placards of Star Wars that we think through.Д«TA-NR2 Y-Wing Starfighter Specifications ItвЂ™s more usual than not that we have an explanation for what every hose, switch, and light are for in the illustrations, whether or not they make it into a call-out list. We personally learn the Star Wars universe better with each project because we do a deep dive on all the little minutiae to make sure the bigger picture feels more cohesive and rich. After a lengthy and very nerdy discussion, Reiff and I determined that the launchers could also accommodate torpedoes when needed.Д¬hris Reiff:В Doing up 3D files for each of the projectiles and talking through the deeply geeky, in-universe logic of how these systems work - even when all that thought doesnвЂ™t get written or shown explicitly - is part of what we love about working on these books. The A-wing, being an interceptor, would most often be armed with ship-to-ship missiles. In the end though, we liked the continuity that the more diagrammatic S-Foils illustrations brought to the other vehicle sections of the book, and how the style of those pieces mirrors the combat maneuvers style illustrations from the TIE manual and the flight controls illustrations from the Falcon manual.Д¬hris Trevas:В Each ship section has a special art focus on a different type of weapon and here we detail torpedoes and missiles. For a time we were going to do big cut-away renderings of the actuator system itself in the T-65 complete with servos, hinges, etc.

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We really draw from all of Star Wars history including the scenes we grew up with to the newest movies and cartoons.Д¬hris Reiff:В We talked for a while about how to handle the S-foils illustration in the books. Because Lucasfilm considers the revised version вЂњcanon,вЂќ I didnвЂ™t know whether theyвЂ™d allow Haynes to use the earlier still frames, but IвЂ™m glad that they did, simply because the original version more clearly illustrates the X-wingвЂ™s S-foils in operation.Д¬hris Trevas:В It was important to us to include classic Star Wars model photos alongside newer digital imagery in page layouts.

At George LucasвЂ™s instruction, Industrial Light & Magic revised the special effects for this scene in Star Wars: Special Edition, and made the X-wings break out of formation while their wings unfolded. Ryder Windham:В To illustrate how an X-wingвЂ™s Strike foils, or S-foils, unfold, I selected two sequential still frames from the original theatrical version of Star WarsВ .