Star Wars: Inside the Y-Wing

[@VinceVegas6]

That was an awesome animation of my favourite starship and your narration skills are improving with each video. Keep up the great work and may the force be with you.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks, will do and thanks for watching Despot06.

[@danielkorladis7869]

@@Halfscreen :'(

[@daleesi1257]

This was my favorite too. If they just kept these in service through the last few movies i think they may have done just a little bit better LOL

[@spacemanspiff3052]

Your videos always get better and better. “Impressive, MOST impressive.” The Y-wing fighter happens to be my all time favorite Star Wars fighter and your video makes it seem even better than ever. That’s for taking the time to make these posts to entertain and (a nod to your musical choices) thrill us! May the Force be with you!!!

[@Halfscreen]

Awesome, thank you!

[@edcliffe2988]

Excellent work. The Y-wing was always my personal favourite. There was a 2-seater variant, with the ion cannons controlled by an actual gunner instead of simply fixed forward. As a role-player, I chose the Y-wing so that I always had the option of taking one person with me, into a trouble spot, or for someone I had rescued.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for sharing!

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@Halfscreen In "Splinter of the Mind's Eye", Leia flew a Y-Wing with C-3PO as passenger. There was no mention of an astromech droid.

[@sandergoudkuil2744]

One of the coolest starfighters in starwars

[@mikeyb4610]

Wow! Again bro HalfScreen ..... just 3 words to describe yet another brilliant presentation = “I Want One” .... your blend of clear contrasting graphics, smooth animations AND encapsulating audio make your videos addictively unmissable .... thank you for sharing .... more please .... #HalfScreen # MTFBWYA ..... #Magic

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks again, try to push the limit of my 3D modeling and animation skillset!

[@mikeyb4610]

@@Halfscreen your 3D modelling and animation skills are like the Millennium Falcon on the Kessel Run .... amazing to watch....almost impossible to believe .... n out of this world! .... #GoGeneralHS

[@Halfscreen]

@@mikeyb4610 My goal really was to create something different on KZbin since most of the Star Wars-related materials are just a bunch of movie clips and slideshows with a lot of technical mobo jumbo. I'm not saying this to bash the other channels since they are the subject matter expert, but to hopefully challenge the norm that Star Wars can be represented in a different manner.

[@joeleonard7152]

i feel like Mikey B is halfscreen's alt

[@Halfscreen]

@@joeleonard7152 Probably a brother from another mother.

[@Affirmbuttress]

I can’t believe your quality is still going up this channel needs to be boosted

[@Halfscreen]

I'm not to worry. I'm getting about 200-400 sub per day now. I must be doing something right.

[@marcoabk]

Man, your choice in music is amazing. the old Star Wars spaceships are almost all iconic, Y-Wing was amazing for me when I was in that chair in the cinema looking the movie for first time back in the end of the 70's I just love every spaceship of this franchise.

[@Pol_Pot_Anti_Glasses_Gang]

My favorite Rebellion spacecraft in StarWars Thanks for doing it

[@junior1138]

TIL that the sleek looking “version” is just the standard version without the cosmetic fairings removed. I was aware that the ground crews took a lot of bodywork off and left it off in order to facilitate access to the onboard hardware, but I never made the connection.

[@randomdude8202]

I think it wasn't just cosmetic and probably some kind of armor. But you don't really need armor if you just plan to hit and run I guess.

[@junior1138]

@@randomdude8202 I’ll need to have a look at the books to confirm.

[@clpfox470]

This is gold leader, standing by

[@tmseh]

Maintaining attack position. Taking fire.

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

@@tmseh keep it tight and watch out for those towers

[@tmseh]

@@furretthefuzzynoodle3896 Copy Blue Leader.

[@captain_commenter8796]

*tie fighters begin swarming tactic *

[@furretthefuzzynoodle3896]

@@tmseh it’s gold leader……

[@henryhammond4817]

It wasn`t mentioned in the video, but the clones wars y-wing had a gunners seat instead of the ion cannons. Overall great vid!

[@roosterj2599]

Excellent! Well done.

[@Halfscreen]

Many thanks!

[@KYle13265]

Man the assembly visuals you do always blow me away! so detailed.

[@Halfscreen]

I'm a detail freak by nature.

[@MarcWeertsMusic]

Incredible work! The Y-Wing is a beautiful fighter, I also love the in-universe explanation how it went from the sleek Clone Wars look to the rugged and beaten Rebel variant.

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@PhilosophicalPawn]

Whoever put this all together in this video needs a raise

[@Halfscreen]

That would be me. 😯

[@AdmiralLost]

Glad to see I'm not the only one that favors the Y-Wing

[@Fredzerra2]

Insane level of detailing. Greate

[@stankossovskiy816]

3:14 VecTral ring. That compartment redirects Ion exhaust akin V2-rocket. Why has it's been taken out so far? To provide better leverage to turn faster I guess?

[@lipcsaiify]

I so so love these detailed animations or even images of these futuristic spaceships! I could watch them all day long!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the compliment.

[@Jhihmoac]

I remember reading that when they were new, they had 0:58 an additional "skin" (cowling) on them that further exemplified the "Y" overall shape of the fighter, but often, these were just left off to reduce excess weight and to get at vital components easier, since the outside cowling was strictly cosmetic and had to be removed anyway to facilitate repairs of any kind...

[@Halfscreen]

Thank for the information crazcompart

[@ArmouryTerrain]

more importantly the extra panels made it harder for the droids they were fighting to get at the vitals of the ship - bloody buzz droids.

[@wookiecookies9929]

Would’ve been perfect to showcase the Y-wing when it was paneled before it got stripped down and heavily modified into the rebellion ship.

[@bencallahan1425]

GREAT JOB!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks.

[@Trunker21]

I love the Y-Wing. Slow but pretty much the A-10 of the Star Wars universe.

[@Dano7504]

I absolutely love your videos, please keep it up!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank you! Will do!

[@elzar760]

Thank you for the continued great content. Appreciate all your effort!

[@Halfscreen]

Much appreciated elzar!

[@ramonsalu563]

Another amazing vid bro, idk why but there's always like a cool atmosphere or mood around your vids. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Anyways keep up the good work, i can already sense that you will have millions of subs soon:)

[@Halfscreen]

I appreciate that! The goal of the channel isn't really about giving you guys a bunch of Star Wars technical mobo jumbo. That what the other Star Wars channel are about. I just wanted to create something new, fun and imaginative and hopefully, you feel the same way.

[@PS0722]

Great presentation!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank you kindly!

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

When I first saw this ship and the X-Wing in Star Wars episode 4:A New Hope during the attack on the Death Star when they showed those 3 Y-Wings during the trench run I didn't see what looked like an Astromech droid during the close ups of the ships even videos like this one and the Spacedock video I saw on the Y-Wing mentions it does.

[@sithlordjeffbledsoe651]

She is the sexiest bird in Star Wars and has been my favorite since I first scene it in 77 !

[@Halfscreen]

It's under rated and under appreciated.

[@keithallver2450]

Same here! After me and my buddies went and saw Star Wars in 77 they all liked either the X-wing or Vader's TIE fighter but the Y-Wing was my fav.

[@ZacharySound]

I actually like the Y-wing more than the X wing.

[@redleg1971]

We always see Rebels and New Republic pilots in the X-Wing, which is the coolest of the SW fighters. I would like to see a former Rebel commando-turned bounty hunter in The Mandalorian or the new Ahsoka series who flies a Y-Wing.

[@light2991]

Best videos ever, I love Star Wars and their ships and it seems that you are putting more and more effort on your videos which is AMAZING. More details and names for the parts of the ships. Keep doing more please and your are awesome. Thank you!

[@Halfscreen]

I know my audience wanted to see more ships, but for this animation, I wanted to focus on quality, not quantity. Thanks for watching.

[@luwucian4497]

Oh my god i love soooooo much Y wings, thanks so much for this

[@blairthomastoews]

That was really awesome!!!!! Nicely done.

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you liked it!!

[@Nooch871]

Excellent videos Y-WING its my favourite pure perfection

[@Halfscreen]

thanks!

[@starsiegeplayer]

Hmmm. I don't know how i missed this video from you last year. I like how you assembled this one, and it's fascinating how the weapons systems are literally built around the cockpit to produce the distinctive head of the Y-Wing.

[@jedidrummerjake]

Coolest looking one of them all!

[@jeffreycarman2185]

I like the Y-wing it seems to me that it could have carried more torpedos but since it is it an assault fighter/bomber and not a dedicated bomber it is a good choice to make it as light as possible. At the end of the day it is a very balanced fighter.

My favorite ship design next to the X-Wing.

[@ale9335]

Great job, one of my favorite ships

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks!

[@gedmcmahon3206]

Excellent presentation once again.. Well done 👏👏

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@negrofluorescente9158]

My favorite star fighter of the whole saga. My childhood dream was to die flying one in combat hahaha

[@thomasrichards357]

Great video, surprised I didn't find your channel before. I would like to see something like this for the Snowspeeder (T-47 Airspeeder) maybe one day

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the sub! My channel is still kind of new , I didn't focus on Star Wars until about 6 months ago.

[@thomasrichards357]

@@Halfscreen ah makes sense. Still... Great content

[@robertjohnson8938]

Very good show

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@GonzaloAlvarezWoodCat]

Love the animation and your work is Oustanding!. Y-Wing bomber suffers allways the fate of the bombers, outrun by fast fighter and be kill for those. In another way is a very hard and durable starfighter (in the hands of an excellent pilot > fast kill > reroute/switch shields fast and accurate. Sometimes no shields to increase velocity and kill fast >> best pilot). As bomber the variety of proyectils make him the perfect bomber.

[@Halfscreen]

Appreciate the comments Gonzalo!

[@axelhopfinger533]

One of the more sensible fighter designs in Star Wars. Only real glaring drawback is the lack of any armaments for rearward defense on this rather slow and less maneuverable ship. And removing the armor plates on the critical rear parts of the frame surely doesn't exactly aid its survivability once a more nimble enemy manges to get behind it. In other words: without fighter cover, any average TIE -Fighter should have little trouble dealing with these.

[@Halfscreen]

I guess its the reason why you don't see it often in the movies.

[@kingslilum7249]

This is the BEST video series about star wars vehicles ever. You are so underrated. How are you still at 20K. But its very good as I have been watching you since I saw your ISD video, you were only at 6K something. Hope you can collaborate with another good 3d animator Jared Owen. You guys will make amazing vids together.

[@Halfscreen]

I have to give Jared Owen a lot of credit since some of my original ideas came from his channel. I don't mind the low subscribers due to my channel being kind of new (about 1 year). I appreciate you spending your time watching my animations. Cheers

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

This is amazing

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

@@Halfscreen you wellcome

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

I hate to say it but if I ever fly a ship of the Star Wars universe it would either be the Millennium Falcon or an X-Wing because I would feel safer at the controls of them as the X-Wing can take quite a bit more damage before being shot down the same with the Millennium Falcon but the Y-Wing was a flying death trap as they kept getting shot down real easy.

[@benyzehnder9310]

Halfscreen uploads a video Me: What a day For real I really enjoy your content. Thank you. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@ignaciorodriguez5636]

Love these videos, keep up the great work!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you like them!

[@ForTeAm2057]

Would love a video about the LAAT Gunship. Great work!

[@Halfscreen]

Noted!

[@Allegheny500]

Very, very nice!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@the_flyattractor8656]

The Y is my Fav Rebel Ship. Biggest appeal to me about this ship is that it is (at the time) the only SW Fighter that could Shoot BEHIND Itself! Big Points there!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@inkermoy]

I loved flying the Y-Wing in the old X-Wing games. Tanky AF. A beautiful "Used Universe" design.

[@ArmouryTerrain]

Another great video. I really like the opening animation where the ship comes up out of the box like a toy model. The only thing that you missed is that they originally had a gunner as well as a pilot before the rebellion's lack of manpower made slaving the guns to the pilot controls necessary.

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah. I wanted to give an element of surprise really. Something unexpected. To be honest, I'm not really a subject matter expert on these ships, I just know enough to get by.

[@imtoys23]

Nice, I'm very Fan of the Y-Wing, since I saw it on 1977 ate the first time at theaters... As a modeler I always wanted the Y-Wing as model on my collection as accured as possible. Well... And here you mensioned the mesure of this ship wrong, it mesure 16 meters not more.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the info IM Toy! On the wiki, its 23.04 meters (Original), 16.24 meters (Rebel-modified) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-wing

[@RedLP5000S]

Y-Wing is my favorite rebel fighter.

[@jime6688]

Aside from the Millenium Falcon, my favorite spaceship from SW.

[@JoaoPedro-ol7sl]

The music reminded me of empire at war music during a battle in sith and epic style

[@arielfilmsinc1926]

If not mentioned the Y wing front end with droid was also detachable

[@johnstereo1492]

I love your work outstanding awesome

[@Halfscreen]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jawarakf]

The only Star Wars space superiority fighter prop whose frame completed 50% up to engine housing before they rushed to redesign & call it done cramping the 2 sets of guns & torpedoes on the radome and fore fuselage below and behind the cockpit. Predict the actual original design, this is supposed to be twin tandem seats fighter with sensor in nose square radome, avionics behind the cockpit followed by fuel tank or atomic cells packs, gravity drive, shield genetator. The further back missing frame house rear facing sensor and anti-missile explosive dispenser or blast radius mine in between the 2 empty engine housing frame. The 2 main engines are supposed to be filling all the way to the back, not empty hollow metal frame. The housing for torpedoes are supposed to be in between fuselage & engines on both sides and also the guns with their energy packs, cooling system, regenerators. Reverse thrusters (for slowing down, reverse) directional thrusters for pitch, roll, yaw, going upward, downward, sideways, cross axis missing.

[@Halfscreen]

Dang, you really know you Star Wars ship Jay....maybe I should have you write up an analysis /essay in my next animation. Another great analysis. 😊

[@jawarakf]

@@Halfscreen just military science analysis predicting its design based on the incomplete frame when they first intended to build realistic twin seat starfighter equivalent to relatively new iconic F-14A at that time. The wide spaced separated engines and twin seat in tandem give us a clue on what they were trying to do in Y Wing originally.

[@jedironin380]

@@jawarakf I thought I recalled the Y-Wing was a 2-seater! :)

[@jawarakf]

@@jedironin380 yes it was before they decided to scrap it and called the incomplete frame done

[@Apostle07]

I really want a arquitens video like this

[@focusonrhae]

Oh yesss🔥😭

[@sirboomsalot4902]

Yes! Unfortunately, I don’t think we have any Arquitens deck plans yet

[@Apostle07]

@@sirboomsalot4902 oh that sucks

[@TREVISOFT1]

Love this Channel May the forcé be with you always !!!!! Its amazing

[@Halfscreen]

Much appreciated!

[@danielkorladis7869]

Have you considered doing a video on the Y-wing as it appeared during the Clone Wars?

[@MrMcGear]

Nice dude!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the visit Bender!

[@harryzimmerman7991]

I always like that ship, very interesting cool design, no pomp or flair to it, just a tough little fighter with one purpose and one purpose only, go in and blow a lot of shit up💥!

[@Halfscreen]

Thank for comments Harry.

[@brianleabickerton3918]

We like your voice vs. the robotic voice. Your videos are excellent in quality.

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks. I think anybody who initial start a KZbin channel usually think of the worst case scenarios because in reality, you are putting yourself there for the world to see.

[@vesawuoristo4162]

Great video

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@theconservativeone369]

Awesome video!

[@Ku5i]

great! what is the music at 3:25 ?

[@Halfscreen]

Not sure since I have to replace the music recently due to copyright issue.

[@jonathanrobertson3406]

Cool animation, but I could never figure out what the four pillared rod extensions out the back of the two adjacent engines that connect with a ring were for. I still don't know. Even in an atmosphere they would be worthless.

[@Halfscreen]

True, I don't get it too.

[@ThatWolfFromHyruleGaming]

these are awesome! i wanna see the snowspeeder some time

[@Halfscreen]

I probably will create one eventually.

[@richardsalley9848]

Dat's dope!

[@Cuccos19]

Please make a Naboo N-1 Starfighter inside. :) I also love the TIE series and the A-Wing too. :)

[@Halfscreen]

Tie fighter coming soon.

[@Cuccos19]

@@Halfscreen Great one! :)

[@Senna-78]

Great video. I've never understood why Y-Wing pilots didn't use twin ion cannons to shoot TIE fighters during the Death Star attack. I don't think on the 1 pilot-version the turret cannot be maneuvered by the pilot or the astro-droid

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for watching Francesco!

[@Sevenleader22]

Can he do the core ship next?

[@CJ-ey1dq]

I like the y wing

[@Halfscreen]

Do you really? 😁

[@gunslingermich]

Hey it's my favorite ship! I just built a lego one awhile ago. Nice video. :)

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for watching, Michael!

[@gearthehuman2115]

I'm always wonder why did the Y-wing doesn't have any shell?

[@muserock2367]

What film is the clips of the ships jumping to hyper speed and the Y-Wings bombing the star destroyer from? Either I've not seen it or forgotten it...

[@Halfscreen]

Rogue One.

[@muserock2367]

Jesus ok I have seen that so I've forgotten 😂 time for a re-watch haha. Thanks 😊

[@Halfscreen]

@@muserock2367 To be honest, I have to rewatch it this morning too. lol

[@AnjinDiceCo]

I used to claim that the A-wing was my favorite Rebel fighter. But recently, I've decided it's actually the Y-Wing. I'm not really sure why. In The films, it's not exactly a heroic spacecraft. Despite being the "workhorse" of the fleet, the X-Wing always seems to get the glory. Maybe it's because it's the underdog. Maybe it's because of its utilitarian appearance. All I know is it's ugly in the most beautiful way possible, and I think they're awesome.

[@Halfscreen]

The Y-wing is an under appreciated ship vs the x-wing.

[@SandsOfArrakis]

Having played the X-Wing games a lot in the past. The Y-Wing was always slow, but had strong shields and quite thick armor. So it could take a hit that would destroy an A-Wing. Plus side was that it's 2 laser cannons are placed side by side. So if you hit an enemy, both lasers would hit. With an X-Wing you're laser cannons would miss a lot. Since they are spaced apart. Give the Y-Wing a fighter escort to keep TIE's off it's back and it'll destroy the big targets. The Y-Wing is not a ship that you want to dogfight in, cause it's too slow for that.

[@TheRyujinLP]

My man delivers! Everyone might love the X-wing but for me it's this chunky beast that made me fall in love with the vehicle designs of Star Wars. I'm really loving this style where you build up the ship part by part getting to see how ever part integrates with one another. It would be interesting to see this idea pushed forward farther were you frame the video like we're watching the ship getting assembled on an automated assembly line.

[@Halfscreen]

I always been fascinated by looking at the internal mechanism of various vessels, but nobody on KZbin are making the effort to recreate these parts.

[@cookingforjoy8246]

Please do Imperial Lamba class shuttle.

[@thaty-wingguy9711]

Y wings for life

[@roberts3741]

Really great presentation. Do you think you could include US standard measurements (feet, inches, etc)? You did it for one video and I really appreciated it.

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah, that shouldn't a problem. Sometime, i forget to put the imperial measurement.

[@echeric76]

Lol, just learn and use the metric system like 95% of the world :-)

[@Halfscreen]

@@echeric76 Oddly enough, since I"m from the States, imperial is what I'm used to.

[@roberts3741]

@@echeric76 I do roughly know the conversions but since it's never used here, it still takes a second to figure it out and apply it to what I'm seeing. It's not that weird of a request when you consider the fact that the most powerful country on earth uses another system.

[@rosshiga8038]

My absolute favorite starship. Beats all others, no matter the franchise. Keep the content coming. Love it!

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks watching Ross.

[@emkkahn]

Did the Y-Wing have a hyper-drive built in? Thinking they did thinking of ROTJ....

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah. It does have a hyper-drive built in.

[@emkkahn]

@@Halfscreen Thanks!

[@SandsOfArrakis]

Yeah they have a hyperdrive. But they need an astromech droid to get it to function. Just like the X-Wing.

[@robinlime8]

The animation was excellent but I still wonder, Where is the life support system located?

[@ramilenricom.rodriguez412]

Please do the AT M6 gorilla walker. Thanks!

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah...I thought about doing the AT-M6. Be on the look out.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

Only one minor complaint: given that Y-wing started up as a two-seater and had a dedicated two-seater variant during the Rebellion era, I'd imagine that the area behind the pilot would be more of a plug'n'play type, and with ion turret not extending all the way through the cabin. I know that this is what Incredible Cross Sections shows, but, well - they're simply wrong.

[@lokischildren8714]

The y wing is a favourite of mice it's the work horse of the rebellion

[@nathanharris25]

that gun turnent that it had during the clone wars would of helped if they had it duing the battle of Yavin

[@robertsutton1295]

In various Star Wars RPGs, the two-seater Y-Wing (with a competent gunner/systems operator riding back-seat) is a deadly beast.

[@nicholasjc6085]

can you do the LAAT republic gunship next?

[@Halfscreen]

Not right now since the 3D model i have right now kinda of suck.

[@nicholasjc6085]

@@Halfscreen alright, no problem!

[@kingofmonsters14]

Republic, Rebellion, Resistance- it's the only ship to be used across all three eras.

[@SunlightCosmos]

What about the clone wars Y-wing?

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

You know it's weird the X-Wing was built with an internal cargo hold but the Y-Wing wasn't.

[@dominicdagostaro4743]

yep

[@jonathanbair523]

Loved the vid. I want to say the Y-wing came in 1 seater and 2 seaters for cockpit. Am I correct?

[@Halfscreen]

The BTL-S3 Y-wing Starfighter was a two-seater variant of the BTL series Y-wing.

[@manfacilitymetalworks1296]

Where do you get all the information for a fictional machine?

[@ll7868]

Vectorial ring, vectral isn't a word.