The Recent X-Wing Models from Lego

Chatting with Dennis, the web radio show's host, about Lego X-Wings recently. He asked me if I could show him what I had. Then, I found my UCS version in garage. At the same time, he made me considering to build the blue X-Wing.

The recent models of X-Wing are really way better than before. From shape to structure, the improvement is obvious. You may find a lot of places to modify the 9493 original trilogy X-Wing but the two X-Wings from The Force Awakens are almost perfect. Maybe, you can update the engine a little bit and cover the grey parts with black tiles.

LEGO Star Wars X-Wing (9493) - OK... I opened it :-)

I finally opened this set. The reason why I didn't open it when I bought it was I didn't like the way Lego built the X-Wing engines. Stickers suck. After years of modification experience, I knew one thing called "Google it!". I found many people did it like this (See photos below).



X-Wing looks much better with the new engines.



Let's take a closer look. Very simple and effective.



I modified the back a little bit.



Let's look at it side by side with two models of X-Wings.



Side by side with Poe's X-Wing (The model after 30 years)



Obviously, the new cockpit window is much better looking. I think I should change it later.