Ronster said:

adywan said:

(although the wings on the set were actually set to the open position and cut off mid way along the wings)

If what you are saying is the case then the engine is in the wrong position i.e. to high?

Are we talking a different kind of fix? Or just leave it as it is? Either way I am not pushing, I just felt that something was not right with this, and if what you are saying is true for which I believe you are telling us valuable information here about it. Then well I kind of feel like you have Answered very well but also raised a few other questions because the engines pivot up higher in attack (open) position. So even if nothing get's changed with it, it's now better to know a bit more about what is going on.

One last thing I had a look after what you said and then I noticed...

Is that the arm, that they use to shake the x-wing? Gimble arm or what ever it is to create movement?

Ronster, as adywan points out, it seems that Luke's X-Wing 'cockpit' prop did indeed have it's (cut down) wings set in an 'open' position...unlike the full-sized prop seen during the Dagobah swamp scenes.

(something along the lines of these particular behind-the-scenes cockpits, for instance) -

So you're right, that would make the prop 'engine turbines' slightly 'higher' in these shots than they would have been if they had been (correctly) closed when the X-Wing headed down to Dagobah.

But this unfortunately means that the middle 'horizontal' detail of the engine turbines also have an incorrect 'slanted angle' in these shots, because the wings are in the 'open' position. (this image gives a good idea of what I mean) -

(and here's your example pic again, which shows the incorrectly 'angled' engine detail a little better, without being obscured by your red outline) -

It's one of these little things that I've never actually noticed before, and I'm not sure it's something that can be rectified without a lot of additional work. No biggie in the scheme of things, then. :)

I also think that the small section you highlighted in your pic above just happens to be part the *lower section* of the engine turbine itself - but the strange thing is that it looks a bit 'thicker' than the top section. I always thought that the rim of the 'circular' engine turbines was roughly the *same* thickness at the top and bottom...so that might just be down to the prop buiders, as some of their stuff is 'off' compared to the miniature work in a few instances. On the other hand, the thickness of the top and bottom sections of the engine's 'circular rim' seem to vary when 'googling' various X-Wing images anyway.