Four foot X-wing (ILM tribute)

[427 Cobra]

I figured this was balsa, but it's very dense, and hard to the touch. It's OK, even if it's not balsa - the harder it is, the easier it will be to sand! I can't wait to get to it.

A little more of an actual update. This is what I've been working on for the last few hours, only to find out that I have to go back to the hobby shop to get more U shaped channel. I have enough to make four lengths, but not enough to finish the rear sealab panels for both wings. The groove panels look good though!


Starting over.


This is the sealab (white) panel before I smeared the glue all over to seal the edges between styrene, and acrylic .





I hope my computer doesn't end up like this - I found a bunch of filth at the bottom of the tower this afternoon - I can only imagine what the rest of it looks like inside! I took the guts from an old computer I got from my friend down the street. I wanted these parts for scratch build projects.





A new beginning

The sealab panel in progress.









These aren't from kits, or kit parts, these all scratch made, as they were on the original model. This is going to be huge - I hope you have the room for this, Jase! I'll post a comparison between this, and the Captain Cardboard kit. Each of these little pieces is T-track sanded narrow on one end, with the top sanded at an angle toward the back with a little bit of the top of the T shaved down to make the shapes you see. These are glued separately at the back of the U shaped channel.

After seeing all these details, I have more of an appreciation for how much more realistic the design of the four footer is. This has much more plausable, and understandable features than the small X-wings do. This is only because such detailing isn't possible to make, or see while filming something so small - it's too bad because the large version is much more believable to the eye with all its' detail, and there's more of it! It's just like a model cars' detailing verses the real thing - the bigger version has more realistic as opposed to the smaller one, the same type of situation applies here. I just wish that they gave this more film time in Jedi - that would've shown the massive undertaking that the hyperdrive motivator itself is among the other details that are readily viewable.





All these have yet to be glued, except the U channel on the far right end of the table. I just wanted to show these as soon as possible. Tomorrow I back up all my computer files, and clean it out. I hope my hard drive doesn't blow up before then! It's been doing some weird things today, mostly software problems.






These U channels, and T track pieces are placed here for example. They still have a little clean up, and I need to measure the spaces between them to ensure correct spacing before I can glue them in place. After I make this side, I'll have to do the same to the left panel.







A closer view from above.