Revell 1/48 Fine Molds X-Wing

Workflow I am following to build the Revell Fine Molds 1/48 X-Wing

Ooh, the box!

Luke chillin'

This is roughly the steps I followed while building the Revell Fine Molds 1/48 X-Wing:

1. Wash all sprue trees with warm water & dish soap 
2. Assemble & paint cockpit
1. Add soft round lead wire as hose detail behind/around seat
2. Cut stupid butt post off of seat
3. Paint of fuselage interior exposed in cockpit with Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black
3. Fill gap in Luke's butt with LePage Wood Filler
4. Paint R2D2 body with Tamiya Gloss White X-2
5. Paint R2D2 head with Tamiya Flat Aluminum XF-16
6. Paint engine intake inserts with ??? on the intake fan and shock cone and ??? on the lateral support panels
7. Paint inside of engine intakes Tamiya XF-??
8. Glue closed nose skid doors to lower fuselage
9. Assemble wing units, including laser cannons and engines
10. Mask off the centre pivot areas of wing units 
11. Prime fuselage halves, wing units, nose cone, tail piece, and inserts that cover screws with Vallejo Model Color grey primer 2x
12. Paint preceding parts with Vallejo Model Color Deck Tan 2x
13. Paint engine intake struts with Tamiya XF-??
14. Paint engine intake cowlings and intake fan with Tamiya XF-??, 
15. Overlay Steel ??? on afterburner nozzle
16. Insert engine intakes
17. Glue engine struts (nasty, had to cut these down about 2mm)
18. Paint Luke!
1. Use blu-tak on a toothpick to hold Luke
19. Tape coaming
20. Tape canopy inside and out
21. Apply two coats Tamiya XF-?? to cockpit coaming and canopy frame
22. Scribe panel lines
1. In retrospect, should I have done this before priming? After priming but before painting base coat?
23. Remove masking tape
24. Touch up base coat where sanding & scribing removed too much paint
25. Apply gloss Clear over all surfaces
26. Apply panel line wash per https://modelingmadness.com/others/features/laskodi/laskodiwash.htm
27. Apply decals
28. Weather engine nozzles to look "sooty" by rubbing chalk pastel over the base coat
29. Apply flat varnish over all surfaces
30. Paint display stand

Hasegawa 1/200 JAL Boeing 767-200

Back on April 11, 1993, I bought this kit from a local hobby shop. A couple of weeks later, after gluing together the wings and fuselage, I put the bits and pieces back in the box to attend to the birth of my first child, thinking 'Oh, I'll get back to it in a week or so...". And there it sat, in the closet, through the birth of my son 4 years later, schooling, work, etc.

Well, 25 years later, my now-grown daughter and son gave me the Revell 1/48 Fine Molds X-Wing for my birthday. Since that's a pretty expensive and complicated kit, I decided to revive my rusty kit building skills by hauling the 767 out of the hangar and finish it first.

The result is not bad, even the ancient decals mostly cooperated, except the one that formed the stripe along the right front of the fuselage from the emergency exit to the nose - it got a little mangled, and I had to paint in a few bits: