Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

More Greeblies,and scribe lines. The following pictures are a 360* view of this from all sides. This was made to resemble the same features as the original ILM model. Now I can put the thruster flaps on it.















This tiny piece on the top left running up to the lip is made up of four pieces that I glued very carefully,then applied. I glued the stretched sprue that makes up the length. I cut into it,then I glued a tiny piece of styrene to the empty space. then I glued another piece on top of it with a tiny drop of superglue to take up the space between the two for the solid triangle shaped part that was missing.

I sanded it all smooth with 600 grit wet-or-dry sandpaper. This completes the part.






All these greeblies were handmade from sprue and the same sheet styrene that I covered the rest of this with. The scribe lines took longer than these to make. This was made from styrene sheet that I scraped with an Exacto blade to this shape. I then glued stretched sprue to this to make the tiny bands on each end. Then I glued a tiny square on the junction between the main strip,and the piece itself. I drilled into the top with a 0.15" of an inch drill bit to make a small depression in it.


I still need to clean up a couple of places where there are still a few burs from scraping,but nothing that 600 grit can't handle.











A view of this with the thruster flaps. These are all meticulously cut by hand to be identical to each other. This is what took me so long to get to this point. I'll finish the Saturn V engine housings next,then move on to the laser canons. I've been jumping around from one part to another to break up the monotony.





Closeup of the tabs that make up the ends of the thruster flaps. I wish these would've stayed straight with each other from top to bottom when I took this photo.











A clearer view of the details that went into this part.