Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

Thanks Daytona! This is the afterburner in its' final stages of completion. I have to glue the thruster flaps to the housing yet. I glued a small strip of sheet styrene to the housing in the line where the tops of the thruster flaps stop. This would make the strip your see around the circumference of the afterburner,or the equator straight with the flaps themselves in accordance with original specs.



You can't see it yet,but there is a small trench in the bottom of the main strip that the flaps go into to help align them with the trailing edge of the afterburner housing. I'll have to snap a photo of this to show everyone what I mean. It's late,as I've been working on this,and the other parts for the wings all afternoon,and into the evening. It's now 1:00 A.M. where I'm at. I've made some progress,but not had a lot of time to take pictures - SORRY people!

More progress to get done tomorrow/today,so I need to get to bed. I'll post more pics when I can get around to them. Stay tuned.




Now,I'm not going to leave you hanging people! Here's a shot of the inside trench. I thought of this while watching a movie from the fourties. I took this photo in front of my monitor.