I'm also contemplating a ground-crew/arming droid, but with no external racks, the droid would be more of a ground-based astromech.
I'm hoping I feel up to doing some of the detail-paint on it today, but Bec packed up the majority of my work-materials while I was in Texas. (had to - oldest daughter needed space for her bed while she's living with us) I'm wanting to start really setting up my new workshop area so I can get back to churning stuff out, because I need my molding and casting stuff for the pilot!
Another thing I want to do is add a flight-yoke to the control panel. The Star Skiff is totally lacking in controls. It has molded-on panels, which I will show later when I start on the detail-work, but nothing in the way of stuff to hold onto. My thought there is to use a couple of the grappling-claws that came with the old Clone Commanders and fab something up. An alternative is to use the Naboo Starfighter controls that came with that particular Anakin fig. Option 2 would make sense from an in-world logistics view - you could use the Skiff as a pilot trainer with identical controls. There's a whole 'nuther custom idea, but I'd want to remove the cannon emplacements for a trainer.
Somewhere, I should have two of the grappling-claw handles and I *think* I have an Ani with fighter controls, but actually finding them could get...interesting. I think once I do, I'll be interested in making molds of them for future use, too. So yeah, I gotta rig my new workspace at some point.
