Gamera

Hey Chris, again I'm so sorry to hear about Weepy. I dunno what to tell you, working on something might take your mind off things. Or maybe just take some time off to de-stress. 

 

Thank you, Sir! I appreciate your concern, and your well wishes.

In the meantime, I've been making progress although painfully slow it is happening. I've had to readjust some measurements cutting inches off the length of the fuselage, and the the patterns I was using were all too big, long, etc. I'm working on the hyperdrive right now and I hope to get this done soon, but time has been dragging along with the heat. I know everyone is sick of seeing text without pictures, but I guarantee that the end result will have been worth the wait. I'll have to finish this in breakneck speed, but the weather hasn't been too kind and my air conditioner is getting a workout like never before!

I don't have enough to show since very little has been done as of late. I want to wait just a little bit longer until I have enough to look at that everyone who has looked at this will be satisfied as I with the progress that I've made since the last set of pictures I posted. BE PATIENT - this is going to be done before summers' end since I don't have a lot of time to devote to it afterwards. It'll definately be a race to the finish line! Stay tuned - you won't want to miss the rest of this no matter how long it takes.

 

~ Cobra Chris

Hello, I just came across this build forum. I would love to know your progress as of late. Also wanted to know if you were doing the color scheme on the wings as it was originally built, or the way it was put together as seen in the musium displays. Thanks

Darthsg

Hello, I just came across this build forum. I would love to know your progress as of late. Also wanted to know if you were doing the color scheme on the wings as it was originally built, or the way it was put together as seen in the musium displays. Thanks

 

I was hoping to have it (X-wing) finished as far was the wings, fuselage, R2-D2, and hyperdrive motivator (top and buttplate) finished so that all I would need to worry about would be the pilot figure. I've been working on ID'ing the parts for the hyperdrive motivator/acutator (strip behind R2), but with mixed results. I've had to make parts by hand to scale with the model parts that I know exist, as well as the ones that I already have. Silicone rubber, and resin are expesive, but those will be the next thing that I buy to  make multiples of duplicate parts. Third: I am planning on painting this as you see it in the museum photos. I had hoped to make this into a model kit for sale to the public someday. I'll also have to figure out how much for resin altogether before I can name a price. It will be costly for just one model since there is so much surface area to fill the moulds. It will also be a specialty item for sale only for a short time. I don't want to make models this big in the hope that there will be a lot of buyers without knowing how much interest there truly is! This will be my crowning achievement in model making so far, concerning the public.

I'm only shelving this project until I can get somewhere to work. Right now work space is limited, and pretty much  nonexistent for me, so I have to do what I can on a small space.  The rest will have to wait until I can either get moved, or rent somewhere to work. Otherwise this won't happen anytime soon! One more thing, I hate to keep people hanging, but now I CAN'T post photos since Photobucket has decided to implode! This will delay everything since ALL the pictures I have are hosted on this site alone - meaning that all the forums that I frequented in the past won't have any pictures on them that were at one time visible. I have time (for now) to post progress, I need to get some work done to show, but I have a couple of other projects - three in all actuality to finish this summer. This will delay my progress that much more! As I said before - stay tuned. Something will come of this before it's all over for me.

 

~ Cobra Chris 

For some reason I can't edit my post. It seems as though it's been duplicated twice in the first paragraph. I'll see if I can get someone to delete that for me. Thank you to all who have waited so patiently. I hope to be back on this soon. In the meantime please look at the other offerings on this forum.

Just browings guys. Man if I had my stuff on that photo hosting site I'd be being perp walked about now. I can't imagine how many threads on the internet were destroyed.

 

Heck. I can't even see my harmica playing squirell and smile now!

Yeah, I'm none to happy myself! Right now I'm in the middle of uploading all my photos back up onto the internet through www.picturetrail.com so that I can edit all my posts here on the forum. Please be patient. I've been working 10 hour days (sometimes eleven) and 6 days a week so I haven't much time to myself. This is my usual work schedule for the forseeable future. As soon as I get all by bills that are outstanding I'll get my self resituated in another home hopefully soon. I'm looking for something with a basement and a garage hopefully in a much better neighborhood. I have to get the staff to unlimit my account so that I can edit and post photos on this forum again. Stay tuned....

 

~ Cobra Chris 

Good luck! I'd love to see more work done on her.