Monica’s Project - A T65 X-Wing Fighter
Saturday, February 9th, 2008 
This is not going to be an article, but a series of pictures of one of my current projects, a totally scratch-built X-Wing Fighter from the Star Wars movies.
Just a little history on this. I started building plastic kits when I was 12 years old, which is about 45 years ago. One of the first things I built was a kit that had small rockets and missiles that were in the US arsenal at the time. Over the years, I graduated to building many kits, until 1967 when a friend an I discovered model rockets. Centuri Rockets had its manufacturing facility with an easy bike ride from my house.
Over the years, I have built over 120 different kits and scratch-built rockets, launching them from many places, including underwater.
In 1977, the first Star Wars movie came out and I fell in love with the space craft in the movie, especially the X-Wing Fighter. In 1979, a kit came out and I finished building it in about 2 hrs, but something felt missing.
One day, while visiting my favorite hobby store, I saw a rack of styrene plastic that came in all shapes, sizes, sheets and objects, and I hit upon the idea of making a scratch-built model of the X-Wing that would be twice the size of the kit. It took me six months to finish it and it looked great. (more…)