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STAR WARS SCREEN USED X-WING FIGHTER PARTIALLY RESTORED BY GRANT MCCUNE

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Movie - Props Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
STAR WARS SCREEN USED X-WING FIGHTER PARTIALLY RESTORED BY GRANT MCCUNE
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Rarely does something like this come around Friends! Truly a HOLY GRAIL of castings and miniatures! Not to mention STAR WARS Film History!
Now, unfortunately Grant is gone now. If not for that, none of this Archive would even be available to collectors. Of all this Cool Stuff, this is the Single Most Significant Piece!

This is a SCREEN USED X-WING FIGHTER from STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE!
It was salvaged from the production by Miniature Model Maker Extraordinaire, Grant McCune. He attempted to restore the Ship Using latter cast Parts from the ORIGINAL MOLDS. I believe he deliberately cast them in black to show the restoration. I assume it was to be a Shop Display, but he ended up building one from scratch so that it could be painted. He never tossed this though, for obvious reasons.
This has not seen the light of day since then!

IMPORTANT NOTES!
1] I site "SCREEN USED" because the bottom fuselage is cast in original gray with original paint. That section was placed in the Fuselage mold, then the black resin was poured in and sloshed around to complete the Fuselage. That is why there is excess resin in the bottom. It coated what it perceived as the mold when poured in.
2] I use the Original Paint. repair along the seam area, and the painted area seen in the front landing gear area [Original pouring hole] as proof it is not some production extra, and that it was in fact damaged during filming.
3] Why else would a busy man like Grant McCune spend so much time trying to restore a piece of ship?