KK3D

Hi I wanted to post some updates to my X-Wing that I posted last year, I was inspired by Giamax74's YOUTUBE video and how he was able to integrate the wings into the body. I followed as much of his breakdown as I could and rehauled my wings to incorporate a lot of his build. I'm still using most of the original internals to open the wings so they still sag, but I can live with that now that there aren't any of the internals exposed. Thanks to his video, I think my build is much more accurate. Everyone who's posted on this thread has made this so much more fun, thank you all. Hopefully, I can inspire a bit as well. 1. I was able to replace the fuselage with all flat panels, no studs (minus the nose) 2. Updated turrets, flat circle in the rear 3. I filled in the cockpit with more computers and tighter seating. 4. Expanded the wings a stud, and added inner wing engines, and inner wing panels. 5. Updated the back of the wings so the "S-Foils" section actually locks in. 6. Covered and closed the gap in the fuselage under the wings. Plus tons of panel work across the fuselage and body. I really wanted up the panels by having some intention to their placement around the cockpit and the front sloping areas. The more I could break up the paneling the better in my opinion.

Glad I came upon this forum. I've only recently gotten into UCS sets and modifying them. I wanted to post to show my changes to the UCS Xwing. I don't have a lot of sets to work with so there is a lot of kitbashing from what I had laying around to get to something I thought worth showing off. Special thanks to @Aeroeza for putting together a slopping front. I built on top of the setup by elevating the cockpit/seating/window by one stud. Having the roof plate behind the cockpit lining up with the rest of the body made it to be more accurate to an actual X-Wing. I was happy to get all the studs off the sides of the body too, not sure why they even did that, except for structure. Everything was for personal preference or cosmetic. Raising the cockpit higher does cause an issue with the sides of the body. The glass doesn't fit perfectly without getting pushed up. There is a happy accident with the cockpit and the 2x1 pieces under the grey tile where it locks it in place with a little bit of pressure. I'm happy with how the area behind the cockpit looks. Exposing a little bit of the sand blue helped marry that section to the body better. And I was lucky the Tallneck had those 2x2 half-flat pieces in the same blue that I could steal to drop under the hinges. -Engines- 1. Moved engines in be 1 stud 2. Moved thrusters in by 1 stud, stole techinic bricks from the nose cone and switched them. 3. Changed engine center 4. Reordered engine parts (For those moving in the engines by 1 stud and can't get the pins under the wing to go in all the way, know you don't need all of the 2x2 half-flat pieces to keep the engines in place) -Cockpit- 1. Moved the seat forward by 1 stud 2. Fille in the space inside with grey pieces for the rest of the interior -Cannons- 1. Reverse rear cannon section. (If you turn around the part that's holding up the back section of the cannon you can reorder all the barrel pieces so studs are facing the other direction.) Removing the 1x1 red wall tiles and replacing them with 1x1 pieces on their side helped keep the body from moving around and locked them in place. I rebuilt the stand so I could display it on its side with my UCS A wing. I reinforced the stand so it wasn't so wobbly.