T-65 X-Wing "Red 2" Restoration
1December 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.
2December 25, 2022Fully rebuilt gun barrel!
3December 25, 2022Fully rebuilt gun barrel!
4December 25, 2022Test fitting 3d printed radiators to gun barrels.
5December 25, 2022Test 3d prints and gradual adjustments. Initial prototype is to the far right, final part is leftmost (under an original kit part).
6December 25, 2022Created a 3d model of the lost gun barrel radiator based on the original parts.
7December 25, 2022One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel.
8December 25, 2022One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel.
9December 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!
10December 25, 2022Finally, clamped down and fuselage and wings assembled! More reshaping and rescribing followed.
11December 25, 2022Test fitting prior assembly.
12December 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.
13December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.
14December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.
15December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.
16December 25, 2022Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area.
17December 25, 2022Test fitting parts. Rear fuselage area is severely deformed.
18December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.
19December 25, 2022Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card.
20December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in!
21December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in!
22December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP.
23December 25, 2022Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.
24December 25, 2022Some of the wing parts were broken and their surfaces had multiple cracks.. patiently filling, glueing, sanding and restoring the lost surface details.
25December 25, 2022Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.
26December 25, 2022Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped.
27December 25, 20223d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding.
28December 25, 20223d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding.
29December 25, 2022Test fitting printed parts on a cockpit tub from one my other FM X-Wing kits.
30December 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.
31December 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.
32December 25, 2022Primed to check the condition of the parts. It wasn't great. Rear fuselage area, for example, was cracked and warped.
33December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.
34December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.
35December 25, 2022C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped.
36December 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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Incom Corporation T-65 X-Wing
Rebel AllianceRed Sqn. 2 (Wedge Antilles)
Battle of Yavin (Result: Retreated)