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Here's a little information about my X-Wing.
Although I have a couple of the smaller x-wing kits I decided to build this
one first because after comaring it with references in the Chronicles and the Technical Journal I found it to be a more accurate representation (for a start it hasn't got that auful cutout in the bottom fuselage half and the strike foils are more accurate in their detailing).
I had originally intended to have the ships fuselage able to split for maintenance purposes, it was only after priming that it occured to me to assemble the whole nose onto the upper
fuselage half, this solves two problems at once, it does away with a front fixing by causing a small clevice into which the lower half fits, and does away with the seam which would otherwise be
there were you to have the fuselage seperable after painting.
I didn't do many mods to the kit realy mainly because I havent been modelling very long ,but
here are the ones I did, first I replaced the engines grain of wheat bulbs with 5000mcd l.e.d.s and their corresponding resistors, this hopefuly will eliminate any future need to separate the engine units(ooh messy), I then mounted a g.o.w. bulb directly behind the cocpit instrument panel, and one in the bottom of the droid bay the latter would be used to light R2's sensor.
The next job was to file and sand away the power conduits from the lazer barrels and replace them with small pieces of copper wire
(unfortunately due to a mental block I terminated
these about 2mm short of the cooling ring, a mistake I don't intend to make again).
Then on to the pilot, in thi case Luke Skywalker, not a very good likeness, but then he's not
realy supposed to be anyone inparticular is he, because of this I decided to faricate a blast visor for him from a piece of ham packet tinted with clear amber paint.
Which leads me on to
painting, this I'm ok at it's the weathering that gets me,
anyway I had to get some techniques sorted for this ship because thats where most of its charachter comes from,so I read a bit and practised a lot on painted scrap and came up with a few useable options, junked the side decals and started from scratch, and to be honest I was very pleased with the results,
-- Lez Cook
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