Ramsayman
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So I finally decided to start building my Bandai T-70. All I knew I wanted to do with this kit was have it landed, and put in a standard Droid instead of BB-8. The only time you see Poe's blue X-wing is at the beginning of the movie landed before it's destroyed, so short of painting this one Black and Orange I wanted it to be one of the other X-wings. You don't see clearly any of the other X-wings on screen, so they just repeated the same X-wing for all the shots, but in universe logic would dictate that the markings would be different (the stripes would change according to the number) and three blue stripes was on Poe so he would be Blue 3. So I decided to make mine Blue 4 and add an R2.
I widened the droid socket a tad so an Astromech would fit, Had to cut the astromech short so I didn't have to drill the hole deeper. Then I built the kit as is then started to change things with the paint, adding some yellow parts, and chipping. This is where it is now, I will work on more later:
The added blue stripe actually only looks different because of sheen. The decals are glossy, and my painted stripe is flat. I am going to dullcoat the whole thing before I finish, so the difference should dissappear.
Thanks for looking!
I widened the droid socket a tad so an Astromech would fit, Had to cut the astromech short so I didn't have to drill the hole deeper. Then I built the kit as is then started to change things with the paint, adding some yellow parts, and chipping. This is where it is now, I will work on more later:
The added blue stripe actually only looks different because of sheen. The decals are glossy, and my painted stripe is flat. I am going to dullcoat the whole thing before I finish, so the difference should dissappear.
Thanks for looking!