Bandai 1/72 X-Wing Starfighter (COMPLETED)

TimM63 said:
I got the wings to

I got the wings together. Trying to decide when to start painting.
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Since it is a snap kit you can kind of assemble it and take it apart

I find skipping the instruction order and building the top half of the fuselage, and the bottom half as sub-assemblies and the wings as sub-assemblies works best, and then assemble them after painting

Just keep paint from getting on the mechanism that rotates the wings, or the pegs to join the body halves as it is a tight fit to begin with, and any paint will make it very hard to a snug get together when done. I masked those off while painting

Like this order from right to left ( I had an assembly line going at one point as I was doing all of Red Squadron)

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blakeh1 said:
Since it is a snap kit you can kind of assemble it and take it apart

I find skipping the instruction order and building the top half of the fuselage, and the bottom half as sub-assemblies and the wings as sub-assemblies works best, and then assemble them after painting

Just keep paint from getting on the mechanism that rotates the wings, or the pegs to join the body halves as it is a tight fit to begin with, and any paint will make it very hard to a snug get together when done. I masked those off while painting

Like this order from right to left ( I had an assembly line going at one point as I was doing all of Red Squadron)

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How many did you build? Twelve? I currently have five, and was yesterday years old when I learned that each of them has the same number as stripes on the wings as their call signs.
 
Rich97 said:
How many did you build? Twelve? I currently have five, and was yesterday years old when I learned that each of them has the same number as stripes on the wings as their call signs.
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I built one for each of the filming models except Red 10

so basically I have built seven representing
Red 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12

here is a shot with Reds 1, 3, 4, 5 6



and Red 2 and 12 were completed later and can be seen in this album here

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmkQ1PgA

I have a kit I am going to use for Red 10 eventually, but kind of burnt out on X-Wings at the time, but will be revisiting

Now of course some X-Wings had two versions, like Red 3 which actually had a paint scheme for the hero vs the pryo/ Same strip markings, just very different weathering and painting on each

I was thinking of taking some of those other versions and turning them into the ones they never made models for like Red 7, 8, and 9
 
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