Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

Doug, I edited that post a few times before posting it, but I don't know why it would send/resend this so many times.

Here's the newest from my table for all to see. I had to modify this only once (thankfully), not there's much to it, but one irreversable mistake could've caused me to scrap the whole thing.


In the beginning.





Getting there. I wanted to show that each piece is a separate component to make up an entire part. Each rivet is a rounded over rod cut, then sanded round on the end with an emery board, then glued into the plate from the bottom, this allows more realism. This is also how I made the side by side cabochons (half round greeblies) in the middle.



This still isn't right yet. I liked this look better than the actual shape it has on the ILM model. I didn't have a choice, I HAD to make this correct, and true to the original model - the cabochons (pronounced Ka-bow-shawns) had to go. You can see what change had to be made in photo below this one.



This is what it is today. I have no more plans to change it at this point in time, except the rod ends that go into the holes need to be extended a little. I had to replace the rods at each end of this for accuracy - they were too big around. I also altered the half round greeblies in the center - these are stepped, not round as I originally thought. After super sizing, and squinting forever - I saw that these have two flat surfaces each one of a different diameter with a hole in the center. I decided to make the inner circular step with aluminum tubing to save me from having to drill a hole in a styrene rod. See the picture of the ILM model at the bottom, and compare it to my version.





I used other pictures for reference for the rivets, and spacing between parts, but this one is the clearest showing the two stepped greeblies in the middle along with the diameter of the rod ends in relation to their size.