Re: X-Wing Toy Conversion
Wow what an incredible job you did with that vintage collection X-wing. Beautiful.
I’m new to the RPF and I hope I’m not hijacking your thread, but I had recently commissioned my dad to customize three saga collection X-wings to hang in my son’s room. A little backstory here, my dad, a lifelong modeler specializing primarily in warbirds and my mentor in the hobby, had built a whole squadron of WWII fighters that hung in my bedroom growing up. I slept under P40’s, P51’s, P47’s, you name it. So I thought it would be fitting to do the same for my son, except with a Star Wars theme.
The three X-wings were to represent three generations of our family, me, my son, and my dad. I told him he was free creatively to paint and customize them any way he wanted to. Now they were just meant to be repaints, nothing exotic like Randy13’s conversion and certainly not meant to be movie accurate replicas. He added a few little things of his own here and there, some wing detail and some extra fuselage items, but these were largely meant to be just repaints.
Like I said, nothing like Randy’s, but I thought I would share them anyway.
He did a "Red 3" for my son:
He did up a "Red Leader" for me:
Lastly, and probably my favorite, my dad's with a WWII themed version:
I recently picked up a couple of the vintage collection X-wings that I am going to rework on my own and hope to do something more like what Randy did with his. I wish this thread had been around when I had my dad doing ours, there are some really great resources in this post. Things that are significant in the appearance without hacking the entire thing to pieces with a dremel tool.
Again, great job with your's Randy.