Ok here is the next installment of my customized vehicles. This is the “Luke Skywalker X-Wing” from the “Saga” Collection. I got it off Ebay for a pretty good price and since I am not one for trying to keep things mint I really didn’t care what shape it was in as long as it was complete and not broken.
Now I have always wanted to make my favorite character’s, Corran Horn, X-Wing from the X-Wing series of novels and now I had an extra X-Wing to work with. I decided that since Horn brought his X-Wing with him when he joined Rouge Squadron that it was probably in perfect working order but the exterior would be a bit hard worn. So in keeping with that theory you can see that it is nicely, if I do say so myself, weathered to reflect this.
Next was how to do the deco markings. Since there is no 100% definitive reference to what the CorSec markings and paint scheme was I was forced to choose from a few different sources. Ultimately I decided to go with the cover of the first book from the series where it shows the colors on the fuselage as green instead of the red that the Rouge’s had.
Once I decided on how it should look next came the how. I found a scanned copy of the full sticker sheet from the FX X-Wing and did some test prints and found that the stickers were the same size and needed only some minor trimming. After playing about with the colors I settled on the green that I liked and then added “kill” markings under the canopy that were from Wedge’s X-Wing (minus the death stars of course) and 2 Rouge Squadron emblems from Wookieepedia. Oh and yes I do know that Corran’s normally was Rouge 9 but for now he is 5 till I can figure out how I want to make a pattern for 9.
So the only things left is the cockpit, which I haven’t touched yet but I will do, in the same fashion as my other ones and the call sign numbers.
I hope everyone likes my latest creation and even if you don’t I would love to get some more feedback. Thanks for reading all this too.
