T-65 X-Wing "Red 2" Restoration
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December 25, 2022Completed and mounted on the stand! For WIP painting and more photos of the final result, please see my "T-65 X-Wing - Red Squadron Flight" triple build project.2
December 25, 2022Fully rebuilt gun barrel!3
December 25, 2022Fully rebuilt gun barrel!4
December 25, 2022Test fitting 3d printed radiators to gun barrels.5
December 25, 2022Test 3d prints and gradual adjustments. Initial prototype is to the far right, final part is leftmost (under an original kit part).6
December 25, 2022Created a 3d model of the lost gun barrel radiator based on the original parts.7
December 25, 2022One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel.8
December 25, 2022One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel.9
December 25, 2022Canopy is fogged and scratched but I was determined to reuse it (even though I had 3x spares). Onwards to wet sanding and polishing!10
December 25, 2022Finally, clamped down and fuselage and wings assembled! More reshaping and rescribing followed.11
December 25, 2022Test fitting prior assembly.12
December 25, 2022Reshaping the nose cone, it had warped and cracked in multiple places. Fuselage sides had huge gaps that had to be filled, sanded and rescribed.13
December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.14
December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.15
December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.16
December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.17
December 25, 2022Test fitting parts. Rear fuselage area is severely deformed.18
December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.19
December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.20
December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in!21
December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in!22
December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP.23
December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.24
December 25, 2022Some of the wing parts were broken and their surfaces had multiple cracks.. patiently filling, glueing, sanding and restoring the lost surface details.25
December 25, 2022Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.26
December 25, 2022Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.27
December 25, 20223d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding.28
December 25, 20223d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding.29
December 25, 2022Test fitting printed parts on a cockpit tub from one my other FM X-Wing kits.30
December 25, 2022Slicing parts for the cockpit to 3d print them. I have a very basic FDM printer but even that can do wonders with a 0.2mm nozzle and some tweaking.31
December 25, 2022Multiple parts in the cockpit were broken or severely deformed during the initial build in 2002 or during disassembly. Had to recreate them as 3d models based on new parts from the other 2x Fine Molds X-Wings kits I bouht.32
December 25, 2022Primed to check the condition of the parts. It wasn't great. Rear fuselage area, for example, was cracked and warped.33
December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.34
December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.35
December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.36
December 25, 2022As built in the early 2000s. Thick paint layers, severely warped fuselage, fogged canopy... Best I could do at the time, especially with a brush and cheap tools/paints.
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Restoring a 1/72 FineMolds T-65 X-Wing that I botched up back as a kid in 2001/2002 to represent Wedge Antilles' "Red 2" from "A New Hope".
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