By now all the parts should be primed and ready to go. Of cause I took my time and let patience rule me, applying the primer in a couple of thin layers with drying time in-between.
Primed Parts - 1
Primed Parts - 2
In the next pictures you can see, that the figures (Pilot and R2 Unit) and the clear parts of the cockpit have not been touched. At the current stage I am not shure how they will fit into the finished model.
Now should be the moment when to decide what colours to use for the painting of the X-Wing Fighter. I will use a sort of ebony colour as the main colour, red for the painting of the bird and I’ll need various darker colours for the recesses and maybe some battle damage. Most of those will be coloured some grey tone.
Primed Parts - 3
Primed Parts - 4
The number of stripes at the rear wing tips depends on the position of the fighter in the squadron.
Example: Red Two (Wedge Antilles) would have a single red stripe while Red Five (Luke Skywalker) would carry five of them. Also the colour depends on the squadron … Red Squadron would have red and Gold Squadron yellow or gold colour. That is for all markings on the fighter.
Some good reference Images can be found here:
- http://www.starshipmodeler.com/ – please navigate to “Hardware Reference” – “Star Wars” and there the second section is the X-Wing section (no deep link possible due to technology used)
- http://www.oohyeahzone.com/ – has nearly the complete Red Squadron from Micro Machines
Tags: How-To, Revell EasyKit, Star Wars, X-Wing