Thank you Scott.  I appreciate the complement.

As the new 1:48 scale kits come out I can easily make upgrade devices for them if this one does not work for them already.  The mechanism will potentially work for a 1:48 scale VII TFA X-wing as well when they release one. 

You are right about the newer kits possibly decreasing demand for this particular configuration, however, no matter how many new kits come out there are still many many MPC kits out there with a lot of time put into them that could use the upgrade.  As you can see from the video it will be  pretty easy to install such a great improvement. 

At any rate this will go into my original MPC model for the sake of restoring a little of its past glory and then into a second one with many other upgrades that I still have to build.  I'll be posting progress on those conversions.

Configurations for 1:35 and 1:24 are already on the project schedule with a possible addition now for the Hasbro giant toy.