Bandai 1/144 X-Wing

[Stikpusher]

I was in the mood to build something quick today, so I pulled this little goodie that I had picked up the other day.



I gotta say that these little snap together Bandai kits are fun. The engineering and fit are superb on this kit. All I can say about that is “WOW!”. I built the basic kit in a very short time...













I mixed up a custom off white using Testors Acryl Reefer White and Bulkhead Gray then painted this in my 1977 technique... with a good old fashioned brush



and lastly some Humbrol metallics on the engines and laser cannon



And that’s where it stands after a couple of hours work...

[speedgraflex]

[Floki]

Nothing like a nice fast build to relax. The little Bandai kits look awesome.

[Stikpusher]

Now to decide on markings....

[Stikpusher]

Well the kit comes with the markings for Luke’s mount, Red 5. But that is SO commonly done. I wanted to do something a little different. So scouring the Internet I found that somebody had watched too much Star Wars (the original film will always be Star Wars to me, where Greedo never gets a shot off, but I digress) and had cataloged the markings for several different ships of Red Squadron. Anyways I saved all the profiles that he made and started on marking mine up.
Kudos to the one who can ID which ship I’m doing before I add the wing hash marks that positively ID my choice... anyways, based off of those profiles here is where I am so far. All hand brushed, mostly Humbrol enamels so I can clean up any excess off of the acrylic base...

[speedgraflex]

Don’t shoot me Kahn Solo but I am at a loss to ID those light blue cans. Here is Red Group fresh from the ILM shop:



Red 3 - 40 years later / ILM Archives

[Floki]

Hmmm. I'm stumped too, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Porkins.

[Stuart]

Porkins... (the big bloke who gets zapped?)

what a great little build Carlos - and some great brush work!

[LyleW]

The “Blue Tails”. A little known group of nudist space pilots.

Looks good, but now you have something else to pack....

[Stikpusher]

Don’t tell anyone....