{"id":1394,"date":"2014-05-29T12:40:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2014-10-13T10:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T08:19:02","slug":"x-wing-repaints-and-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"X-Wing repaints and modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the miniatures for Fantasy Flight Games&#8217; X-Wing game come prepainted (well), there&#8217;s always room for improvement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve painted engine glow where appropriate, to make it look like those engines are actually powered up. Some people even do LED modifications on the larger ships!<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"B-Wing modified\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=1250\">As shown elsewhere<\/a>, I converted my B-Wing to the sideways pose and gave it a Blue Squadron paint job.<\/li>\n<li>Three of my X-Wings are painted up as Red Leader (Garven Dreis), Red 2 (Wedge Antilles) and Red 5 (Luke Skywalker). This included flattening the droid&#8217;s head on Garven&#8217;s ship to represent an R5 astromech droid.<\/li>\n<li>I was immediately bothered by the shuttle&#8217;s flat nose. All artwork, including the pilot cards themselves, show the shuttle with a curved nose. I completely disassembled the shuttle, sanded off the paint and added some plasticard, which was then sanded to the correct shape.<\/li>\n<li>A complete repaint of my Y-Wing. 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miniatures for Fantasy Flight Games&#8217; X-Wing game come prepainted (well), there&#8217;s always room for improvement. I&#8217;ve painted engine glow where appropriate, to make it look like those engines are actually powered up. Some people even do LED modifications on the larger ships! As shown elsewhere, I converted my B-Wing to the sideways pose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,54,81],"class_list":{"0":"post-1394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gaming","7":"tag-miniatures","8":"tag-star-wars","9":"tag-xwing","10":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plKIk-mu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}