Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

Thanks guys! Kurt,I wasn't ignoring you last night - you posted right before I posted my reply to Jason. I didn't want to seem pompus by not replying to you. I would've responded,but the Vbulletin would've edited my last post,as opposed to allowing me to post a separate reply!

Well,here's more to look at.

These were taken late last night. I didn't get to bed until 4:00 this morning. Believe it,or not - This took 6 hours for me to make from beginning to end. What pisses me off is that this is still wrong! The long shaft is too small in diameter! I need to either restart this,or I need to find some way of fixing this one. Otherwise,I won't be using this part. The other two parts came out right,but this one that ties them together is the hardest part to make. I think this was either a kitbash in itself from three,or more kits - or it was completely scratch made.


Either way,I hope you all will enjoy these pictures.






This photo,and the one before it were taken while it was dark outside. If you look closely,you can see the stretched sprue I used to bulk this up. Unfortunately, I had to fill the spaces between the rings,and sand it all smooth. I have to make some minor adjustments to the piece that looks like an elongated fire plug (to the right of the one that looks like a pirate canon) on this yet.





These are the basic parts. I cut a small V shaped groove into this with an Exacto knife. I widened it a little with an Exacto saw,then cut the final shape with the machinists' drill bit beside it. This bit is less than 1 mm in diameter.






This is laying over the edge of the table because,I didn't cut the tab that I used to handle this part with while adding the stretched sprue to it. This wasn't glued together,but laid out for example.







A closeup of the tab I made to hold this while finishing the final greeblies,and stretched sprue.



Another look in blurrivision. (I think there's something wrong with the camera - now)






A closeup of the "elbow" part.






A far away shot for a sense of scale. This is about two inches long from stem to stern (end to end).







I still have yet to glue this together at this time,until I figure out how to make this right.

This looks a hundred times better in person. For some reason the camera I'm using makes all the detail wash out even in overcast conditions. I'm really starting to hate it! You can clearly see the colour variation between the night,and day photos. I wasn't able to make this better no matter what I did to it! I had to tone down the contrast of a couple of these pics for this reason. Unfortunately,this wasn't one of them.