Hello all, this is my first post and thought I would share a project I've been working on (obsessed with) for a couple months. I finally finished it and wanted to show it off.
It all started by watching a video on youtube of an Y and A-Wing, and the concept came into me. A little research and lots of supply buying and I came up with what you see below. Let me know what you think.
The head-on view is the most boring, and it's meant to be walked around, as it's a 3d model.
I tried to get it to look like the cover of the X-Wing game from the 90's. The "explosion is about 10 red and yellow flicker 5mm LEDs on a thin cardboard base, with a chicken wire frame and cotton balls attached. I probably could've done better but I'm not much of an artist.
The back side. 5mm red flicker LEDs in the engines. I had to hollow out the engines, then shave down the LEDs on the edges for them to fit. I had to use 30ga wire too. It was really tough.
One of the things I'm most proud of is the fiber optics in the cockpit. The computer targeting display especially. I bundled about 6 and painted them clear orange/yellow to simulate the targeting display. One fiber optic filament wouldn't have given the sense of a "grid" like in the movies. That's about the closest I could get.
My paint job in the X-Wing is terrible, lol.
I had a mishap on the cockpit window and something I did melted the plastic a bit. We'll call it battle damage. The R2 unit will fix it.
It all started by watching a video on youtube of an Y and A-Wing, and the concept came into me. A little research and lots of supply buying and I came up with what you see below. Let me know what you think.
The head-on view is the most boring, and it's meant to be walked around, as it's a 3d model.
I tried to get it to look like the cover of the X-Wing game from the 90's. The "explosion is about 10 red and yellow flicker 5mm LEDs on a thin cardboard base, with a chicken wire frame and cotton balls attached. I probably could've done better but I'm not much of an artist.
The back side. 5mm red flicker LEDs in the engines. I had to hollow out the engines, then shave down the LEDs on the edges for them to fit. I had to use 30ga wire too. It was really tough.
One of the things I'm most proud of is the fiber optics in the cockpit. The computer targeting display especially. I bundled about 6 and painted them clear orange/yellow to simulate the targeting display. One fiber optic filament wouldn't have given the sense of a "grid" like in the movies. That's about the closest I could get.
My paint job in the X-Wing is terrible, lol.
I had a mishap on the cockpit window and something I did melted the plastic a bit. We'll call it battle damage. The R2 unit will fix it.
