Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

Thank you,guys for the compliments. I'm glad to hear that from you two especially after watching your wonderful work for months while tearing my hair out planning this. All your comments,and compliments are very reassuring that I'm doing this right! Here're more photos for you all to feast your eyes on.



These are the laser canons after two weeks of finagalling the details,and greeblies for them. I had to go back several times on different parts of these and start over to get it right,until I figured out that one of the triangular shaped panels is on the WRONG side! Meaning that the two are identical as the ILM model was,but the outside greebly for the laser goes on the opposite side,so that these will have the same detail face up where the square hole cutout is.





This is a close up of the chip detail.





Two of the stripes on the out side of these have yet to be attached. I'll post photos of this after I correct one of these to explain this better. These are just taped on for placement right now. The long chip on the left canon is too long. I'll have to scrape it off,and start over.





This is a comparison shot. There are small imperfections in these that aren't visible in the photo. I'll have to rework them to my liking. These need to be perfect for me to even consider casting them.





This is the actual thickness (0.20") that this is supposed to be. I thought that these greeblies went around the ouside of the engine intakes were supposed to be 1/8" of an inch thick,but after looking at the reference photos,I see that there's a blocked (Stug) part extending past the background piece that attaches to the wing. This is where I had to cut off the excess to make the correct shape. There's also a slight ridge on the outside of the Stug fender part. I'll have to recreate all of this for it to be accurate to the original ILM model.





This is the start of the laser canon base. This measures 1/2" inch wide by 4" 1/2 inches long.



This is the master for the afterburners. The small piece beside the afterburner is what most of the guys on the RPF mistakenly call "turkey feathers". This is actually called a thruster flap. This is what determines how much more thrust the engine will produce by how open these parts are. When the thruster flaps are open all the way it produces less thrust. When they're closer together it produces more thrust making the fighter go faster.





I was trying to show that this still needs to be rounded true. I didn't know that this was so far off until I looked at it in bright light. The sunlight washed out all the detail in this photo.





Here's a closer view of the thruster flap.





These are obviously all the parts for the intake greeblies. This serves no real life purpose. It's only ornamental. The one on the top is the original master. The one in the middle is the correctly shaped version,and the one on the bottom is the mishapened starboard side. This one will have to be redone. The angle of declination from the top point to the top edge of the bottom rail is wrong. This is the Stug part that will be glued to this separately. I'll have to fix this before I do.

I found this out after scrawling the horrible drawing that now adorns it. I was looking as I was doodling,and noticed that the part was out of proportion to the original version. This was after I cut out the bottom piece for the top starboard (right) wing. Needless to say,I had to start over by cutting the middle piece to the size it is now. I'm glad I didn't cut both of these out at the same time! I'll transfer the shape to the new piece I'll cut for the top right wing. The styrene sheet with this tracing on it was instrumental in figuring the correct angle in relation to the original specs.





I was trying to show more detail in this shot. This was done to give you guys an idea of what still needs to go on here yet.






These are the thruster flaps traced out to be cut. I didn't want to cut these out until I could get a picture of them. The bottom parts were scrawled to check for clearance - I wanted to make sure that there was enough material on this sheet for them.