Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

I just got a huge streak of inspiration after looking at these photos. The split fuselage design is what I'm going to use. I figure that I can make balsa wood sections much like an RC plane with sheet styrene vacuum formed over it. This will allow me to make the two materials stick together, and share the same shape while fitting into a regular oven. I'll make a similar shape to the X-wing below for the fuselage pieces to go together, so that they can be cast without warpage, or deformation.

This will allow for it to go together in easier to handle sections, and I can put alignment pins in each part all along the fuselage for perfect alignment! All you'd have to do as a modeler is putty over the seams, run an Ex-acto knife through the scribe lines while the putty's wet and sand smooth once dry. I can't get razor sharp edges with having to cast each fuselage - that's something that can only be done under tight controls that I just don't have the equipment, or money to afford! I'll make these so they'll be a tight joint, but it won't be guaranteed perfectly seamless once joined, since I can't control the casting process, or any irregularities known with casting compounds.



I had planned to use a similar method of top half/bottom half construction as the kit in these pictures with multiple sections joined together. I just needed a picture of this, so everyone can see what the hell I'm talking about! I still need to iron out the vault/ buttplate, as I had to tear apart a few pieces that will need to be remade since they were wrong. This is going to set me back a couple days. I don't know if this kit below is two solid pieces with a separation in the fuselage, or hollow, but mine will be hollow inside to allow for an armature, and lighting options.