T-65 X-Wing "Red 2" Restoration

Completed and mounted on the stand! For WIP painting and more photos of the final result, please see my "T-65 X-Wing - Red Squadron Flight" triple build project. 

Fully rebuilt gun barrel! 

Fully rebuilt gun barrel! 

Test fitting 3d printed radiators to gun barrels. 

Test 3d prints and gradual adjustments. Initial prototype is to the far right, final part is leftmost (under an original kit part). 

Created a 3d model of the lost gun barrel radiator based on the original parts. 

One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel. 

One gun barrel was lost and all had broken pieces. Scratch built the missing barrel. 

Canopy is fogged and scratched but I was determined to reuse it (even though I had 3x spares). Onwards to wet sanding and polishing! 

Finally, clamped down and fuselage and wings assembled! More reshaping and rescribing followed. 

Test fitting prior assembly. 

Reshaping the nose cone, it had warped and cracked in multiple places. Fuselage sides had huge gaps that had to be filled, sanded and rescribed. 

Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area. 

Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area. 

Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card. 

Reshaping entire rear fuselage assembly area. 

Test fitting parts. Rear fuselage area is severely deformed. 

Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card. 

Rescribing panel lines and restoring surface detail with 0.2mm plastic card. 

Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in! 

Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Wedge figure.. well, wedged in! 

Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. 

Cockpit assembled and painting WIP. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped. 

Some of the wing parts were broken and their surfaces had multiple cracks.. patiently filling, glueing, sanding and restoring the lost surface details. 

Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped. 

Cockpit test fitting into fuselage. Warped/sunken areas of the fuselage puttied and reshaped. 

3d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding. 

3d printed parts assembled to old cockpit tub, reshaping with putty and lots of sanding. 

Test fitting printed parts on a cockpit tub from one my other FM X-Wing kits. 

Slicing parts for the cockpit to 3d print them. I have a very basic FDM printer but even that can do wonders with a 0.2mm nozzle and some tweaking. 

Multiple parts in the cockpit were broken or severely deformed during the initial build in 2002 or during disassembly. Had to recreate them as 3d models based on new parts from the other 2x Fine Molds X-Wings kits I bouht. 

Primed to check the condition of the parts. It wasn't great. Rear fuselage area, for example, was cracked and warped. 

C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped. 

C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped. 

C. 2014, disassembled and paint stripped. 

As built in the early 2000s. Thick paint layers, severely warped fuselage, fogged canopy... Best I could do at the time, especially with a brush and cheap tools/paints.