1/24 Hero X Wing Build with Maxi Brute Fuselage

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(09-08-2010, 11:49 PM)beaz Wrote: You know, I caught no end of grief and a good bit of hate mail at the RPF-SSMF when I first opined, as politely as I know how, that the CC fuselage was probably too spindly compared to the original models. Even posted that picture of it next to my pyro casting to show them what I meant. Some guys called me an "anal jerk" and a "rivet-counter" and made it all too clear where they thought I should shove my calipers.

Of course, most of those same guys subsequently started padding the midline of their CC fuselages with sheet styrene in order to beef them up a good bit.

I guess what I'm getting at is that there are many ways to criticize someone or something constructively, and then there's slagging. What I saw here the other night in the Falcon thread and have noticed in a few others, is a good bit of unnecessary, often uninformed slagging.

Slagging other people is human nature, but we're all capable of rising above it. Here are the two slagging guidelines that I happen to live by:

1. Don't slag other people in your community, and

2. If you can't resist the temptation to slag other people in your community, at least know what the fuck you're talking about.

Way to go and get yourself stuck at the bottom of the page, beaz. Coudn't agree more and I'll add one more to the list.

3. Don't let the time you spend slagging exceed the amount of time you spend on your models.

beaz, I greatly appreciate your input. You put as much thought and consideration into your posts as you do your builds. I especially like what you've done with that V3 fuselage, and that nose cone.

Rivet counter? Yep, exactly what I've been doing.

For some reason I'm nuts for IDing these cockpit parts. Check this out. Absent from my modified cockpit I noticed that there was a strange texture to the front of this part in my reference folder, that was absent from the kit part itself. Due to the texture, I figured its a result of paint or the resin itself. The modified cockpit I've got here is missing it in its entirety, but seems it was lost in some generational sanding.


When I get stuck I look to kit scans here and on studioscale.com. You never know.

And there's another kit to add to this X list. The Hasegawa Morser Karl. On the same sprue as this tiny textured rectangle is that flat part covered in rivits. A little trimming will yield yet another part for the back of the cockpit.

This leaves only four unIDed parts. That thing at the back I'm always going on about, the box to the right of the gauges, the part under the pilots left arm, and the 'joystick' glued to the left side of the gauge cluster.

I'm running out of photoshop tricks. Beaz, your cockpit is unmodified. Any chance you could give me a closer look?