
In addition to introducing the Galactic Republic and Separatist Alliance as brand-new factions to X-Wing, this wave also brings the opportunity to round out your Scum and Villainy and Galactic Empire squadrons with updated versions of two classic starfighters.
As you do, you’ll experience new twists to the X-Wing formula, outfit your ships with new upgrades, and immerse yourself in the Clone Wars like never before. These expansions give you the chance to enter this spreading conflict and command endless legions of droid fighters or valiantly lead powerful Jedi Knights and dedicated clone pilots into battle.
#CLONE FIGHTER STAR WARS UPGRADE#
Galactic Republic Maneuver Dial Upgrade Kit. Separatist Alliance Maneuver Dial Upgrade Kit. Guardians of the Republic Squadron Pack. Vulture-class Droid Fighter Expansion Pack. The model is designed, indeed aimed at junior modellers but that shouldn’t put anyone off, there’s potential here for creating a good model of a Resistance X-Wing Fighter from The Clone Wars.Ī gentle dry-fit of parts shows that everything should go together well – remember, these are push-fit kits and designed not to come apart again – different to normal kits in this respect.Order your own copy of the Wave III expansions for X-Wing at your local retailer or online through our website today! The surfaces should look good under paint, washes and general weathering. As you may have read, we’ll do this with a number of these Revell ‘Easy Kits’. Personally, I would want to get the model together and then clean up any joins etc before applying my own paint finish and that’ll be the subject of the build we’ll run in SMN – taking an entry-level ‘Easy Kit’ and making more of it and certainly trying to get the best out of the box contents. The model actually comes with some paint applied as I say and this isn’t usually well done and here is ok on this model. The model offers a simple breakdown of parts that are quite well moulded and painted in light grey base with blue panels giving the model a heavy, weighty feel but that doesn’t detract from the finesse of the detail that is cleanly moulded and generally well-defined. This kit was released in 2010 and I have to admit we have had it a while waiting for the launch of the Sci-Fi/Space Area in SMN that you can see is now live :) Let the builds begin!! Closer look at this kit Here are the basic stats for this release:
Photo courtesy Star Wars Databank A note from Geoff
During the assault on Starkiller Base, Poe Dameron flies a customised, dark-hulled X-wing under the call sign Black Leader. The credit-strapped Resistance relies on X-wings donated or lent by sympathetic New Republic senators and local security forces. Faster than the Alliance-era T-65s, Resistance X-wings are manoeuvrable enough to engage TIE fighters in dogfights, but powerful enough to take down capital ships. The Incom T-70 X-wing is the latest incarnation of a classic design, and the signature combat craft of the Resistance’s Starfighter Corps. Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model stores. Our thanks to Revell for supplying our review sample. In-box review by Geoff Coughlin (January 2017) Price around: £24.99, €28.43, $30.13US, $40.31AUS (check out the web retailers, you can get this kit much cheaper than this price)