Bandai 1/48 X-Wing Pt II Cockpit assembly, photo etch and painting

In this video, I cover the assembly of the cockpit, photo etch for the cockpit and painting of the cockpit. I do not complete the cockpit in this video due to time, but a majority of it is done.
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[@cmussomaha]

Insane! A vision come to life! Talk about "make'n it happen"!!

[@modelsbychris]

Thank you

[@drewlsy]

Your ingenuity is astounding!! Love how you are able to come up with solutions that might not readily be the "go-to". You give your models depth and a personal touch of excellence. Thanks for the play-by-play commentary into your creative process. Enjoy learning how you approach challenges to achieve movie model accuracy.

[@MrPhife333]

Gawd, but I love your attention to detail. If you have it, I'd love to see a video of how you painted the pilot!

[@modelsbychris]

Only have the little bit of painting the pilot seen in part I. It's very difficult to shoot on video while doing that tiny detail. I have to get in there to close and it blocks the camera

[@davidjohnson8474]

Wow! I'm good at building but geeze! I think I'm gonna try. Beautiful work so far

[@ggrinfan]

Hello, I’m assembling the Y Wing starfighter Bandai 1/72, and you inspire me for the paint process. The iluminaron an the other fantastic details, are out of my league. Your work is fantastic, thanks for sharing

[@paulhymans2354]

You take what is already a great kit and take it to the next level!! Great work and thanks for sharing.

[@mshanejsmodelsnstuff2865]

Wow Christopher, your work is brilliant as always. I finishing up the Y-wing as a present for my son, and although I've no idea how to light the thing, your videos have inspired my builds. The guitar strings was a stroke of genius, an idea I personally used and it added that small detail to push it to another level. Thank you for your inspiration.

[@modelsbychris]

Awesome. Happy when people can use my ideas. That's part of the reason I do the vids

[@MrPhife333]

Gosh but this is so beautiful. Your attention to detail is amazing. Thanks much for sharing!

[@pauljohnson2692]

Fantastic detail, the placing the photo etch and then spraying undercoat to see where to cut is a great idea. Always been an issue for me knowing were to do the cut-outs, this idea will really help. Thank you.

[@musicmate70]

wow the detail you haveput into this is stunning

[@m1a1hm]

Outstanding work!!! Can't wait to see more.

[@ronaldmccdonald1534]

How do you not have more than 100k subs? You put so much effort into your models and videos.

[@Houdini_Bob]

the photo at 8 minute mark left side looks like snow speeder from Hoth. excellent build, love the lights. you have far more patience than I have.

[@modelsbychris]

Nope, it's the X-Wing. Those are screen grabs I did from ESB. A couple from when he jumped in and left Hoth, then the others from on Dagobah.

[@Houdini_Bob]

ah, it was the snow and gloves which made me think that.

[@chrisC052]

Dude, you need to work at ILM. Fantastic work, a true master.

[@OscarSabaterCruz]

you play in another league man, impressive!

[@SandalwoodBros]

Incredible

[@simonvaughan1270]

Nice job, looking really good. Love seeing how you do it step-by-step. THANKS!

[@bucknertarsney7674]

Doooood! You’re a mad man! Awesome job.

[@200yoda002]

Amaizing job.

[@rickparker01]

muy bueno amigo , te felicito, sds

[@BobH809]

Great job dude, really like what you did to this. Not sure I could do that. I'm going to build the Bandai 1/72 X-Wing. Although, I also have the old AMT X-Wing whih would easily allow lighting.

[@gunplanut]

Awesome as always.

[@trigmachine]

wow

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

Insane job on this model, quick question regarding the photo etch parts: Where did you order this from?

[@modelsbychris]

Photo etch is from paragrafix.biz. I get most all of my photo etch from him

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

@@modelsbychris Merci Christopher!

[@johnwinters]

Another great video. I was wondering, where did you/ do you find such great reference pictures? Could you possibly share them? Thank you for any help in advance.

[@modelsbychris]

In particular, for the x-wing cockpit, they're just screen grabs I did from freezing the blu-ray of the movie on a shot that shows it cleanly.

[@jarjarkassz1]

Merci :)

[@HIGHWAYMAN9674]

where do you find a super-detailed 1/48 figure??

[@modelsbychris]

That figure came with the kit

[@Nonotin1006]

How to buy it

[@jczar72]

Awesome build!!!! Where did you get the printout for the center targeting screen?

[@modelsbychris]

That's something I made and printed out myself.

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

You must have a lot of patience to do all that.

[@xxxxzorroxxxx]

Amazing !! Where do you get The metal stencils.For the cockpit

[@modelsbychris]

From Paragrafix.biz.

[@josephmazzone4131]

Where can I get the etching and lighting kit

[@modelsbychris]

The photo etch is from paragrafix.biz. The lighting was all custom by me. No lighting kit, sorry.

[@henrikfranzen4940]

Do you perhaps have the computer screen as a printable file in the right size that you could share, would like to do the same on my x-wing 😊

[@modelsbychris]

I do not have a problem with that. www.mediafire.com/folder/ma7refh1ryicq/X-Wing_Screen_Files

[@henrikfranzen4940]

Christopher Olson thanks 😊

[@arunkmrsharma]

Chris, thanks for sharing the printout jpegs. What did you print these on, regular photo paper?

[@eIijahtree]

Hello, just want to ask where can I get the pilot photo etch?

[@modelsbychris]

You can get it from Paragrafix.biz

[@eIijahtree]

@@modelsbychris thanks

[@eIijahtree]

I found it for about 20 bucks, did you use that one?

[@modelsbychris]

@@eIijahtree on paragrafix is $26.95 www.paragrafix.biz/product_detail.asp?MainCat=Photoetch&SubCat=blank&PPartNum=PGX201

[@ami-kun]

Oof looks good