A-Wing: Ready for Paint

I have made more progress on the A-Wing this week. Up first, the pilot. The pilot included with the kit is a very good reproduction of the one used with the studio filming model.

 

 The kit pilot:

 The ILM Studio model:

 I changed the head for two reasons. 

1. I didn't like the pilot looking off to the left,

2. I wanted to

I cut off the original head and replaced it with a resin Mon-Cal head. It is from a 1/72 scale pilot set offered by StudioStarForge. If you need pilots for your 1/72 projects, these are the best out there.

 

The resin guns are very small parts on this kit. They arrived warped due to heat.

 Fortunately, the cause is also the cure. After holding them under a hair dryer for about 20 seconds, the resin softened up and I was able to straighten the barrels up.

 And here is everything ready for painting:

 I'm need to get some paint to finish this project, and when I do the real fun begins.