![]() ![]() What are the new LEGO® parts for September 2023 an.LEGO® DREAMZzz™ review: 71457 Pegasus Flying Horse.LEGO® Friends review & MOC: 41760 Igloo Holiday Ad.LEGO® ICONS™ new moulds review: 10318 Concorde.LEGO® Architecture review: 21060 Himeji Castle.UK: Free delivery when you spend £50 or more at LEGO!ĭiscover the latest promotions and offers on Īll text and images are © New Elementary unless otherwise attributed. USA: FREE SHIPPING every day on orders over $35! Tyler, Timo Luehnen, Lukas Kurth of StoneWars, and our newest patron Jamie Tallin! You folks are the wind beneath our x-wings. Become a Patron!Ī huge thank you to all our patrons for your support, especially our 'Vibrant Coral' tier: Antonio Serra, Beyond the Brick, Huw Millington, Big B Bricks, Dave Schefcik, David and Breda Fennell, Richard Selby, Gerald Lasser, Sue Ann Barber & Trevor Clark, Baixo LMmodels, Markus Rollbühler, Elspeth De Montes, Megan Lum, Andy Price, Chuck Hagenbuch, Jf, Daniel Church, Wayne R. Help New Elementary keep publishing articles like this. READ MORE: LEGO® Friends review & MOC: 41747 Heartlake City Community Kitchen Please consider using our affiliate links, we may get a commission: USA LEGO Shop | Australia LEGO Shop | UK LEGO Shop. Our Patreon followers on the Sand Blue, Medium Azure and Vibrant Coral tiers can enjoy part 2 right now. In part 2 on Wednesday I'll take a look at the build and minifigures - assuming I can figure out how to photograph the massive ship! The only downside is the injection mark dead centre, but it's a small price to pay all things considered. Personally I'd sooner have a blank 8x16 tile for MOCing purposes but I'm all for removing the risk of sticker misalignment or trapped air bubbles on a collector level set. This marks the first time a Star Wars plaque has been given the printed treatment: Tile 8x16 with Star Wars UCS X-Wing Data Sheet print in Black (6446687 | 104491). This page made possible by Starship Modeler - copyright © 1999.Until recently, info plaques would also have been done with a sticker on a plain 8x16 tile. ![]() With the hard white surface underneath the floquill you can use the scotch bright pad to distress raised detail and an x-acto knife to chip away the detail paint. The best part is that if you don't like it, it washes off. If you moisten the model with a spray bottle of water you can drissle and splash this mixture and get some great effects. I also like to use black acrylic paint thinned with water. An airbrush was used to dirty down large areas with a dark grey. The aging was created using a variety of techniques. Over that, I used floquill railroad colors for the detail paint. After the model had dried for a week I dulled the surface down using a fine grade scotch bright pad. I first primed the model with black primer, and then painted (with the exception of the cockpit interior) the model with a gloss white enamel. In addition to the back engines, these pieces also fit into the inside recess of the wing opposite the Saturn V piece. This kit is very hard to find, and to make matters worse you need 6 of the dang things! I kept waiting for someone to re-issue this kit but finally gave up and molded the one engine I did have. The back part of the engines is from a 1/32 scale kit of the Revell Phantom II jet. The engine bells from this kit were also used for detail in the front intakes. The bulk of the front section is made out of one half of the "rocket stage 3" section of the common Saturn V model rocket kit. The engines are divided into two main pieces and there are almost totally kit bashed. The wings are built out of sandwiched acrylic since styrene would be to soft and, over time, would warp. Since it was blow-molded to be thin and light, I backed the inside with polyester so I could scribe in plate detail. The main body of the ship is from the kit. I was later to learn that it is exactly the same size of the miniatures used in the production of the film.Ībout 40% of the model you see is from the "maxi-brute" kit, the remainder being scratch built or kit bashed. I have no interest in model rocketry, but was seduced by the kits' injected molded pieces and impressive size (Length 19 3/4 in., Width 16 1/4 in., Scale 1/20?). The Estes "maxi-brute" was a rocket powered flying kit of the Star Wars® X-Wing. I would guess I bought this kit in 1979 or 1980 and since then I have only seen one other. Bill George's modified Maxi-brute X-wing.
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