Hello Everyone,

I want to try to switch up some of my x-wings by modelling them to have their s-foils in the closed position. Has anyone tried this? If so, how, and do you have pictures? I was thinking just getting them soft in hot water and gluing the wings together, but I'm worried about irreparably damaging the cannons while trying it.

I'm also curious if anyone has done any other custom work. I think I've seen some headhunter conversions which look great, just wonder how much other people have tried.

Or I'm late to the party, please point me to the right thread!

I made Headhunters out of X-Wings.



You won't be able to hot-water Fold the S-Foils and have it look flat. They're at too much of an angle. (I've tried)

You really will have to cut the S-Foils as close as possible to the Fuselage, file it back to make it smooth, glue them together, clean it up, and then reglue them back on...

It should work okay with the nacelles in their current position.

You shouldn't damage the cannons, because they are offset Over/Under, as long as you don't mix the S-Foils up once they're cut away.

I didn't quite get that far.

But I'll try it in a day or two.*

*In fact, I'll try it later today if my Kiddo decides to take a Nap.

Yeah, I figured that could be the case. Those headhunters look great, I assume you just cut the wings and put only one set back?

I probably will try your suggestions next week, but if you do it sooner, I'd love to see the results!

I'm also thinking I'd like to mount them at a different angle, maybe making a banking turn or something.

I also Milliput'd on the Headhunter "Hump" behind the Cockpit, after removing the Astromech

Man, I wish I had that kind of creative talent

Yeah I don't have time for customizing stuff. I'm a total shapeways slave leia.

So, this took forever, BUT:





S-Foils in Transit Position.

Still needs a tiny amount of gap-filling and correction before its "done"... Then painting.

The painting should correct 90% of the problems I see when I look at it righ tnow.