Hello everybody,

Today I start my construction report for the X-Wing,
I deliberately left out the construction of the wings I hope you are not angry

Here is the stand after issue 58, I printed an auxiliary construction to position the wings,








I designed and printed the landing light housings, they are brushed the days and equipped with SMDs





Here from different angles









the scenes where you see these headlights,







and again the X-Wing from different perspectives,











So that's it for now.

To be continued

it continued on the X-Wing

I started to equip the left cockpit console with fiber optics,



provisionally illuminated, at the end there are several colors flashing, flickering and permanently illuminated,;)







I have already printed the adapter for the original holder for assembly, the grub screw is M8,









to be continued

WOW! Nice addition!

Clay

I continued a little bit on the cockpit today,















1/4 of the lighting in the cockpit is now ready and the LED holder works great, I hope I can get away with it on the weekend.

To be continued

I uploaded a test video of the cockpit lighting to YouTube

https://youtu.be/0seJQlbIErw

I did it myself and soldered a Y adapter. This can be used to tap the power supply at connector 20, e.g. if you Additional lighting installed and maybe want to make a cockpit modification, but the performance is too high for the original board and does not want to destroy it.

But first of all, this is a permanent voltage that is not switched by the board and is always present when the power supply is switched on or the batteries are inserted !!!!

You can e.g. switch with a separate remote control.

https://www.ebay.de/itm/...7ffc:g:iSwAAOSwIeNdg3UB

Here with an external power supply of 6V,









the Y adapter on connector 20,



and the complete Y-adapter with the voltage tap and folding wagons. So you can save yourself soldering.



here in battery mode,





If you are interested, please PM me.

Sequel follows.

Looking good Stefan.

Mark

Hello everybody,

For me it goes on again, I spent the days at and processed the next issues of the X-Wing and installed and modified the parts

starting with issues 82 and 83,

this is how the sprue should look like on the upper wing cover,





here you can see one of the struts, this has a small cast edge,



I removed these,



through these acquaintances the frame has risen a bit,
as a result, the frame was not flush during assembly and this would result in larger gaps. Seen here



here the finished upper shell of the grand piano holder,





I made an opening in the top cover at the level of the circuit board, because I would like to make 2 modifications afterwards.
I got this tip from a friend on Facebook # Thank you Axel,



here with fixtures, somewhat confusing, due to all the additional lighting,



here the screwed parts, here you can see that they are very close to each other, thereby reducing the gap dimensions of the panels, to be seen later in the report,







here the parts from issue 84, there Torsten Engel has already taken on the part in advance and found out that the cast edges apply something to the glued areas and thus also contribute to the inaccuracy,
here the lower ground plane and the upper original,



I glued and fixed the part, so it could glue it in peace,



here are the lines that I have to move from back to front, the other side looks the same,



The construction status at the end of issue 84,





Here's my hyperdrive, I'll modify it a bit,
a mold was made of the carrier plate and then poured with clear resin, # many thanks to Gregor,

but that at a later date,





















Here is another modification by me, since I pimped the engine a bit, I mounted the IR receiver in the front of the support shaft.
The closed flap is in issue 99,



the opening filed square,



glued in the IR receiver,



and done,



here mounted from below,



continue with issue 92, the front side panels
sometimes photographed from several sides so that you can see that they fit in,























I have marked the screws here, you should screw them out if you unscrew the front side panels so you can get the front side panels in better,



The rear panels of issue 93,







Here you can see the rear panel, that fits very well and goes exactly to the edge, that is exactly the place where, if you have not assembled it correctly, you will have problems with the assembly of the rear,



here the side panels on the cockpit,














Issue 94, the rear upper side panels,



Unfortunately, there is an inaccuracy here and a large gap that can be removed either with a spatula or a small plastic sheet, I'll do that a little later in my construction report,



here you can see how the top and bottom panels come together,
the gap is minimal, a good prerequisite for neatly assembling the rear and saving yourself trouble because everything is so tight,



the right side,











and the left side,









the view from the front,







issue 95,
that stern, which, thanks to the preparatory work, can be put on cleanly,

























sometimes a photo of the building status between



here the issue 96 and 97, the details for the rear,









Issue 98, this is where the cover for the battery compartment goes,




that battery compartment,



and the panels for the nose,





so that's it for today, here is the final construction,







I hope I was able to shed some light on the dark and show you guys that the panels are not quite as bad as they are commonly claimed.
If you have any questions, just ask. If I can help, I'll be happy to do it.

To be continued

I wish you a nice Day and stay healthy

hello clay,

please try a different browser, with me all the pictures are there.
I use Mozilla Firefox. my picture host is phoximages.

greetings stefan

thank you, Mark and Clay

I am glad that you like the construction

Greetings from Germany and stay healthy