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General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing (Completed)
« on: April 19, 2017, 07:19:36 PM »
Started on this over the weekend, and I plan to finish it this coming Friday/Saturday/Sunday! It's an old POTF2 FX X-Wing, which has been in storage for years. I thought it would be a great opportunity to re-purpose it!

Merrick and his droid:

Reference:


And then I added the blue to the X-wing:


Subsequently the yellow:


Next will be the grey, the white, and then the weathering! 
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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2017, 07:21:48 PM »
Double post somehow, crap!

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2017, 02:52:29 AM »
Very nice. Off to share this on the pages.

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2017, 04:31:31 PM »
Looks Great.

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2017, 05:23:42 PM »
That looks sweet! Did you get the reference shot from a Blu-Ray version? The detail is nice.

Are you going to do that scoring silver stuff? Like the chipped paint exposing metal?

Great job dude. :{D

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2017, 07:16:27 AM »
That's a very good repaint.
Excellent work!

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2017, 08:24:18 AM »
Thank you everyone! I've never customized a vehicle before, so this was new territory! I've repainted props though, so I approached it in a similar fashion (slow and steady).

Until new reference material surfaces of the bottom fuselage, I believe I'm done!












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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing (Completed)
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2017, 02:18:32 AM »
Now that looks nice. Off to share.

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing (Completed)
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2017, 03:10:42 AM »
Fantastic work.

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing (Completed)
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2017, 09:08:39 AM »
That's amazing!!! Excellent work that we will hopefully see in Era of Darkness someday  8)

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Re: General Merrick's Blue Leader X-Wing (Completed)
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2017, 10:57:31 AM »
If I can ever get back to photographing Era of Darkness!  :-X Once school is finished the first week of May, I'm gonna try to photograph several chapters all at once over a few days! I've not published anything since January, so I need to work on things BAD.

Thanks for the kind comments everyone!!!  ;D