T-70 X-Wing...with some artistic licence

[stevee671]

Last Christmas I received both the X-Wing and the First Order Tie Fighter kits. I'm kind of on a Star Wars building kick at the moment and decided to pull this one out of the stash and get started on it. It is Interesting to note that while this kit can be displayed in flight, there is no pilot figure. With this said, I went to the spares box and found a helicopter pilot that would fit the bill nicely for a Resistance Pilot.

These kits are prepainted, albeit not very well. I decided to leave the cockpit as-is and do a little dry brushing to enhance some details. I glued the pilot in the cockpit and pressed the cockpit into place.

I began work on the S-Foils and the fit on the some of the parts were less than stellar. I know it's a snap tite kit, but I guess I set my expectations too high for a model kit tooled in the 21st century. There were some pretty big gaps to fill in the panels.

Once the filling and sanded were done and the factory paint job left a lot to be desired, I stripped the paint and primed the entire kit with Tamiya Gray Surfacing Primer.

[stevee671]

I decided that I didn't what this to look like an X-Wing from the movie. I tossed around the idea to do it in a red paint scheme, but I figured there would be a lot of people doing that or maybe green. So, those options were out. I was looking around the internet for inspiration and then this jumped out at me.

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Although, not exactly the same X-Wing, the TFA X-Wing clearly draws a lot of inspiration from this original concept. So, I decided to adapt McQuarrie's Paint scheme to the T-70. The color was overall Model Master Light Gray.

I used RLM Gray for the fuselage stripe. It's a little too dark when comparing to McQuarrie's art, but I decided to keep it

Next was some careful masking and spraying International Orange on the fuselage and the S-Foils

Dry fit of the cannons

Edited September 6, 2016 by stevee671

[stevee671]

The painting is complete. Next gloss and weathering.

[PhantomMajor]

I think you've done an excellent job so far on that kit

[rockpopandchips]

Yeh looking good.

[stevee671]

All finished...My photoshop skills suck...

[stevee671]

[Hunter Rose]

Nice build, it looks great!

[Air-to-Air]

Impressive. The lines of the spacecraft look much more sleek without the, usual, heavy weathering.

[stevee671]

I went with an acrylic gray wash over the entire model. It's very subtle compared other weathering I've seen on these types of models. I'm very pleased with the finished result. Thank you all for the positive comments.

[Thom216]

Very effective. Great job, as well as on the pictures. She looks awesome in flight.