Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

Thank you,sir! After seeing your builds,that is very reassuring.

Here's another ridiculously small update. This is a closeup shot of the piano frame mounted for example. This still needs a little tweaking at this time,so it's not glued to the Phantom engine. I soldered these after stripping the insulation off the wire.





A little closer shot. This is for detail. You can't really see the sanding,and tooling marks,but I tried to capture this in its' raw form anyway. You can't tell in any of these photos,but these are made from two sizes of wire,just as the original four foot X-wings' are.





Here's the piano frame for the other side in its' raw form. Each of these will be wetsanded with 600 grit before gluing. This will produce a smoother finish on the cast versions of this part.

Please note the prototype of these to the right.






This is what it'll look like when it's done. This tube looks a too big in diameter,but once all the greeblies are on this it'll be to scale,and it'll have the proper appearance to the original ILM model. This is half a days work. I had to bend,and sand forever to get these to look halfway respectable. These are soldered,as metal doesn't like superglue very well. It'll stick metal to plastic,but not metal to itself.






OOOHHH! Soft fuzzy memories shot. This came out like this for unknown reasons,but I was trying to show the other associated parts with it.





This what the photo above was to look like. I just wish I could take a picture of all the hard work,and sweat that went into making these from scratch,and all the bending,and bending,and rebending that it took to get them this far! The rest of the greeblies for this will be next step. Afterwards,this will be finished once the lip at the top of this tube is beveled,and banded.







Here're a couple of comparison shots for you to see what I'm trying to duplicate.