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THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE
Thanks mate!
The X-Wing from the pic is a resin copy of an original X-Wing scratch built by me. You may see some pictures of the construction process in the X-Wing folder in my gallery in the following link:
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Bests:
Rod
Thank you for the link! You have some truly amazing talent! I plan on building some of the older kits from MPC and AMT and maybe try some from a company called "FineMolds". I hope you won't mind if I need some help from time to time with them.
Darin
I also build some MPC kits. I painted and MPC/AMT X-Wing as practice for painting the 1/24th X-wing Red 5 scheme, Luke's X-Wing. I modified it by changing the cockpit and taking the clear plastic out of the canopy to make it look more studio scale like. I also changed the guns for bronze tubes because the plastic guns are awful and pasted a bolt on the rear of the ship to attached to a stand.
Here are some pics of the AMT X-Wing and a AMT Falcon:
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I am building another AMT Falcon heavily modified. There's something very wrong about the disc side walls of the AMT Falcon as they have the same height as the mandible walls.
The AMT Falcon is quite a good kit representation of the big (167 cm long) ANH Falcon model.
But to make it more accurate you need to cut the mandibles out of the disc to make them thinner in height in relation to the disc side walls. Yo can see in the pics of the one I build that it looks fat if built without modifications.
I'll soon post some pics of the modified AMT kit
The Falcon is my favorite ship so sorry if this reply went to long! XD
Thank you far all the great info and links to your pictures!
No, a reply never too long especially when it has this much great info!
Thanks again,
Darin
Are you planing on building the AMT Falcon or the Fine Molds?
The Fine Molds falcon is a replica of the Empire Strikes Back 3 foot model that is very different in shape and detail from the 5 foot model from Star Wars A new Hope. I prefer the 5 footer so that is why I've built 3 AMT Falcons trying to make it more accurate.
May I ask where you get your pictures of the studio models to follow for building yours?
Thanks and Merry Christmas if you celebrate it!
Darin
Anyway it is still a very beautiful kit, and the best around.
A couplle of friends of mine from Austria, built a replica fuselage for the fine molds X-Wing, take a look at it at his web site Darin:
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I hope it helps!