"Fire in the Hole !"

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"Fire in the Hole !"

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I've been working on this for the past week. Since there were red decals for various panels on the X-Wing, I decided to paint a band of red on the tail area as a What-if scheme. The red band commemorates the Tuskegee Red Tails Squadron.

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Man I must be the only person on here who's not built a X-Wing...

Exce work Tom - I love the addition of the Red Tails band.
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:shoutout: :shoutout: :shoutout:

Looks great Tom!
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Thank you fellas. The photo doesn’t quite show it but I weathered it overall using dark grey chalk, water and a couple drops of dish soap. After I let it dry out, I went airbrushed it with a coat of flat clearcoat to seal it all in. I’m happy with the outcome. The cheap chalk wash is more forgiving than most major brand paneliner products.
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Wooooooooouh!

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Very nice build! Them Bandai kits build up really well. Did that base come with the kit or from somewhere else?
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Base came with the kit.
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Very cool. I haven’t built one of these either. Nice job.
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I've built so many X-Wings over the years but Red Tails never came to mind.

I have a couple of AMT's in the stash and Round 2 is going to re issue all the Star Wars stuff since they renewed the license. I imagine there will finally be some photo etch and good resin for them
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Congratulations, Tom. Your weathering reminds me of ILM’s work, properly done. Great idea to add the additional homage to the Red Tails! Take a bow!!
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