X-Wing Chestbox Reference

JediXXL (Gil Guemes) · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:23 am Post subject: X-Wing Chestbox Reference

I was looking through some old reference material and I came across these chestbox layouts.
Notice the positioning of the round greeblies from box to box as well as the square colors:

Biggs

Empire Strikes Back

Hobbie

Hoth

Luke (MOM exhibit)

Luke (Visual Dictionary)

Wedge (ROTJ)

Zev Senesca

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Aramys Strael (Bill Kohlleppel) · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1256 Medals: None

Those are awesome..... thanks for posting this.

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Jedi Loreen (Lori Procopio) · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:14 pm Post subject:

I remember those from a few years ago.

I'm doing my chest box kit in the style of Luke from the MoM exhibit.
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Aramys Strael (Bill Kohlleppel) · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 1256 Medals: None

I'd almost do the Zev or the ESB version.... but then again, I am quite partial to the color green!

- Bill

Jedi Loreen (Lori Procopio) · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject:

You're such a Corellian, Bill. lol

I like the "classic" look.

I've already painted my toggle switches, and used my leather hole punch to make the red dots out of red reflective tape. Those should look interesting in flash photos. Razz

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Why yes, Lori, I am very much the Corellian at heart!

What can I say? Their the coolest!

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Princess Leia Organa (Lori) · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

I never realized I had a Wedge ROTJ one! Laughing

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HazardThree (Jon Paulson) · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject:

Making this "sticky" as it's good reference materials.
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Ylan Firesign () · Joined: 22 Feb 2009 Posts: 231 Medals: None

I like this thread, too, as it has measurements:

http://www.rebellegion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13863

I compared those measurements with my own home-made chest box, which I based around 1-inch squares for the squares, and it's probably about as close as anyone's likely to get without having a screen-used one in their hands.
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TK-Dave () · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: Chest Box Colour

What colour do you paint the chest box...
Is it Dark Grey - Light Grey - Blue Grey....
Please help if you can?
Dave

Jedi Loreen (Lori Procopio) · Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:07 am Post subject:

A lot of people buy chest boxes that are already made.

I don't know what color other people use on their kits, but I like the look of Rustoleum's Smoke Gray gloss enamel, it's kind of a darkish gray. The number for it is 7786.
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TK-Dave () · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:22 am Post subject: Grey?

Thanks for the help.
I am going to use the Smoke Grey!
Thanks again
Dave

Jedi Loreen (Lori Procopio) · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:53 am Post subject:

Denim sounds like it would be too blue.
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Mookie (Richard Fairbrother) · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

Wow, I have been looking for those. Lost them off my old hard drive. I remember doing those in Illustrator originally with a litlte help from Dallas.

Mookie

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