OK … I was a bit lazy over the course of the last weeks, but only lazy in writing. I did do some further painting on the X-Wing. Here is how it currently looks:
Overall View
Detail View 1
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further paint jobs done on the x-wing
Thursday, June 4th, 2009X-Wing – Painting & Masking
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009I started painting the upper side of the X-Wing and masking the lower side. This time us worked differently for the masks on the underside. More about that later in this post though. The paint is dry and the masking removed. Since I use a brush to apply the paint, there are differences in the amount of paint on the wing. Together with the sharp edges of the masking this does bring some raised edges to the painting.
painted wing
painted wing detail
Painting the X-Wing
Saturday, April 18th, 2009It’s been quite some time since I have done something with the X-Wing, so I decided to go on a bit with it. For the base colour I will keep the darkish gray of the primer. So this will be a masking frenzy, since there are loads of body panels which need to have slightly different colours.
Overall View
Frontend Top Panel
All the X-Wing parts ready …
Saturday, January 17th, 2009By 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
Jet Engines – primed and ready for painting
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Although I haven’t been very busy the last days, also due to the snowy weather, before I did start priming the parts of the X-Wing fighter.
Readily primed Jet Engines
Readily primed Jet Engines
X-Wing – cleaning and glueing, first jobs done
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009By now the model should be dismantled and all the parts clean. I hope you realised, that the model has a ridge in front of the wings and you didn’t shave off that one as well … this Version of the X-Wing Fighter will be grounded and therefore the S-Foils (wings) will be closed and the landing gear will be lowered.
Dismantled - X-Wing Fighter in parts
Comparison Jet Engines - completed vs. uncomleted
X-Wing Fighter – first cleanups
Thursday, January 1st, 2009When I introduced the X-Wing Easy Kit I said, that it could be made into a good looking model. Well let’s start then.We are going to dismantle the Fighter and clean the parts of excessive material which is leftover from casting.
uncleand Lasergun
cleand Lasergun
X-Wing EasyKit by Revell
Thursday, January 1st, 2009Let me start this blog with a post about a recent gift from friends in the UK … for Christmas they sent me the Revell EasyKit “X-Wing Fighter“. This is a Kit intended for the beginner and does not require tools or glue. Still you can make a nice model in approx. 1/56th scale out of the kit.
Let me first of all show you some pictures of the ready assembled model:
Image 1
Image 2