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Red 2, Standing By

6/24/2019

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As I continue to play catch up with completed builds, the next one up is the Bandai 1/72 X-Wing kit. As I was scrolling through my past pictures I noticed that I took these photos almost exactly one year ago, so it seemed only appropriate to relive it now.

I bought this X-Wing kit as part of a two-pack box in conjunction with Rogue One, which included a 1/72 scale X-Wing and a 1/144 scale X-Wing. You will see the 1/144 X-Wing pop up later, but for now I want to spend some time on the 1/72 kit. The provided livery and decals were for Red Leader from the assault on Scarif, but I have always been a Wedge Antilles fan so I really wanted to build his X-Wing. Thankfully, there are a lot of great custom decal makers in the world of the internet, and I found a good set of Red 2 decals from Cosmos Models (he makes a lot of really great decal sets for many different Star Wars ships. I will plug him all day long; his Instagram handle is @nicholas_sagan).​
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The hardest part about building Wedge's X-Wing is that there is not a lot of great reference material I could find. I scoured the internet for every reference image I could find, and even then, a lot of what I found had conflicting color placement, especially around the cockpit. Ultimately, I just went for my best interpretation from the reference material I could find.
One of the reasons I also wanted to build the Bandai X-Wing is that I have always been slightly unsatisfied with the FineMolds X-Wing model I built many years ago, probably around 2012. The picture on the right gives some reference. I was still in the early stages of learning about the hobby and did not know a lot about washes. Also, cameras have come a long way since then! I knew I could build a better X-Wing.
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Outside of hunting for reference photos, this kit was fun and easy to build. I used a slightly gray tinted white for the base color, custom decals for Wedge's colors, and an oil wash with Starship Filth for the panel lines and dirty look. I am very happy with the final result on this kit, so much so that the old one got bumped to the land of storage.
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Stay tuned for more on that other tiny little X-Wing that came in the box with this one!
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