Hi Wayne
There is an issue which you will see has been addressed in this link below.

https://forum.model-space.co.uk/...aspx?g=posts&t=33711

Mark

Unfortunately I also have not received parts for the official build to continue, as like the rest of us, I too have to wait for deliveries, and no I don’t get spares.
If you look at the third picture in stage 71, you will see a small shim of plastic approximately 1mm thick seems to cure the issue.
Hope that helps

Mark

I can only go on my own experience and that others have said it works. This was first raised in the German forum and the FST there put up a video. The link is below, although in German.

https://youtu.be/RcM7oMv2QxM

I found that adding just the plastic shim was enough, well in my case that was.
I did originally add a piece to the top tab that activated the switch when opening, but the wings didn’t open fully, so I took that one off.

As I said, I had no issue when opening the wings, only when closing. I did however, when testing, get someone else to hold the x wing and had a ribbon inside the battery compartment ready to pull out the batteries should the motor continue to run when it closed. This was to stop the motors running and stop any damage to any of the cogs. It is also important, as mentioned in the official build diary, to make sure everything lines up correctly before inserting the rods.

Mark

Just to add to this.

I had major problems getting the last wing to line up properly with the rods fitted, there was a clear 2mm lateral offset to the alignment with the wing below.

It turned out the bottom right wing, the one fitted second, wasn't meshed correctly by just one tooth with the left bottom wing that attaches to the motor which then also threw the alignment geometry of the last wing out.

To get the bottom two wings to mesh up properly I ended up doing the meshing with no rods fitted at all and then fitting the rod to the right hand wing first. Not what the instructions said which has you fit the rod to the left wing first which gives you no wiggle room to then get the teeth on the right wing to mesh properly.

After that the wings all fit nicely and with the unit held by the body section a gap of about 8mm was visible between both pairs of wings at the wing tip ends. This disappeared after the first test open and close.

I can only assume the motor drive cog had a tooth's worth of slack to take up to get the wings fully into the closed position.

I also found that a small rectangular piece of plastic cut from the corner of an Amazon gift voucher card was the right thickness for the required shim.

Wings fitted, shims added, X Wings in attack position i.e success. Thank you for the help and guidance. Fingers crossed the rest of the build will be reasonably problem free!!!!!!!!!!!!