X-Wing Red 6 Build

Hi, I have been wanting for a while now to build the Red 6 X-Wing.
I know there is very little info on this bird but I think there is enough info to
paint a cool X-Wing and there is space to improvise and try to do a cool weathering based on the style of the other Red Squadron ships.
As I haven't have too much time to cast a full X-Wing for myself I started casting by parts and using some parts that were not perfect but good enough to apply putty on them.
So I started with the coolest of the 4 wings I painted the basic stuff and now I will start the weathering. Here are some pics:






Bests:
Rod

This looks fun!!!!

Lee

You guys rock!.... Looking forward to this.

Hi Rodmart,

I just love the way your so casual about the whole thing! You painted the basic stuff and now (Yawn! stretch arms) you will start the weathering.

I looked at the pics first before reading (Yep I do that a lot) and thought you had finished. LOL

Looking forward to it as well.

Ozzy

I love it! Looks great so far, Rod.

Craig

Yep - glorious!!!

Looking good! I'm looking forward to seeing how you resolve the red 6 scheme. I'd like to learn a little about how you see it. Great paint jobs on your work so far.

Love the weathering!

Sean

Looks great so far!
As you said - there is very little info on that one. plus the confusion of 2 different pyros called Red 6 which are obviously not the same bird.

Can't wait to see more!

My fave bird. Good stuff, Rod.

Couple of things, don't forget the pentagon inside the wing. Also, the red marking under the outer wing should follow the trailing edge panel line. Think I know why you have deviated from that - it's the McCune pic isn't it?

If you look closely, you will see that the reason it looks that way is you are seeing the blurred white edge of the rear of the laser cannon detail. In reality the red does follow the panel line.

Thanks for your words everyone.
I am working on our Y-Wing right now so this may be a very slow buildbut today I had some time and I painted a droid strip:



I saw that Marko started a thread on the Red 6 scheme, cool.
Even though I will try to match most of the painting details to what we can see on the few pics there are from this bird from the making off videos, I will sure add stuff of my own to the painting scheme, that is the fun part of painting the Red 6 for me, you have some liberty to work because there is not much info.
I also discovered that was easier to paint the wings separately although it was cool paiting my Red 5 "a la ILM" with the ship fully assembled stuck on the stand, but it proved very uncomfortable to airbrush weathering inside the wings and really hard to protect areas already painted from the airbrush flow, so now I am trying this Painting by parts style.

Nwerke said:

Also, the red marking under the outer wing should follow the trailing edge panel line. Think I know why you have deviated from that - it's the McCune pic isn't it?

Martyn, mate, I don't get what you are telling me, what of all the McCune pics you mean, could you post it here? Thanks pal

Bests:
Rod

This is kinda like a burlesque show, showing a little peep at a time before the big reveal. You Bloody TEASE Rod..

Rodmart85 said:

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Martyn, mate, I don't get what you are telling me, what of all the McCune pics you mean, could you post it here? Thanks pal

I was just wondering why you took the red inner-wingtip panel along a more tapering line at the trailing edge. It actually follows the panel line. Were you following a pic?

Red Six - fantastic! Great work! I will be following this thread with great interest!

Thanks everyone.
Nwerke, mate I took that idea from this picture:


You can see that the red panel has a different angle from the wing shape so I assumed it did not went along the panel line that should be parallel to the wing edge, then I looked other pictures and it all became clear, the panel carving was done s little off on this wing. Thanks for the tip mate, I have already corrected the panel

And there it is again. The pentagon decal that appears on one of the tie fighter models and on the Cylon raider. Gettin to be an ILM trademark. Jason.... Could ya add that to ya next decal sheet?

Very nice indeed.

Rod,
that paintjob is one of the bests i've ever seen on a X-Wing
Yeah, i know it's really time-consuming, but those wings looks soooo great.

beatiful,flawless airbrush work¡¡¡

Nice! Like the two tones of red.

Yup yup, that's nailed it Rod, unfff, so pretty!

Where are you getting the new images, btw? Bluray?

Told you there was better pix of red 6 on da Blu ray....

No you dint.