1: Starting off with some concept profile drawings. I created this X-Wing before the Movie "The Force Awakens" came out in December 2015.

2: Profile view of the nose of the T-70 X-Wing featured in Star Wars The Force Awakens

3: In Cinema 4D, I start shaping the nose and engine area using box primitives and cylinders, shaped to fit the profile drawings I created.

4-Very basic shaping of the fuselage, split-wing engines and wings.

5: There was a lot of modifying and remodifying of the shapes as I continued the build.

6: Slicing and dicing - cutting out the canopy.

7: The X-Wing has some odd shaping around the fuselage.

8: The T-70 has slightly different features than the older T-65 X-Wings seen in the original Star Wars Trilogy.

9-Backside

10-I decided to go with an all grey "clay" look as it was easier to see contours. I've already applied some metal material to the "inlets" for lack of a better term, which really aren't inlets, but that's a whole 'nother story.

11: These split apart, so I needed to create the divider there. At the time, before the movie came out, there were not a whole lot of good visual references to go on.

12: Backside. Now, there were a lot of modifications to this area after the movie came out. There were practically no visual references to this area before the movie release.

13: Wing Split structure

14: Wing Split - front view

15: Wing split. I really like how the wings fit together in this T-70 version of the X-Wing. I also started building up the wingtip cannons.

16: Wings closed. Got a long way to go.

17: Wings Open view.

18: Basic Cannon structure.

19: Wings open. Cannon detail.

20: Starting to build up the engine-to-wing bracing structure

21: Small details going in. I'm kind of making this up as I go, as there were virtually no reference photos before the movie came out, save for a few, and the YouTube video of JJ Abrams near the full size X-Wing (that REALLY helped).

22: Internal structure of the "intake"

23: Comparing this view with X-Wings seen in the movie trailer.

24: Backside. Now, there were a lot of changes to the near-finished model on this area. The way the half-moon shapes of the engines are here is wrong, the ends turned out to be rounded rectangles. In all honesty, I like the shapes to stay consistent.

25: Front view

26: close up of torpedo port. Those are small torpedoes!!!!

27: front view again

28: wireframe backside.

29: At this point, I'm just making all this up. I was trying to make these fold-in doors for the wing seperation.

30: Fold-in doors.

31: The doors I made would fold in, and keep the fuselage flush when the wings were closed.

32: Of course, there's this big gap when the wings were opened... oh well...

33: Backside details Just making it all up here. Based loosely on the older T-65 X-Wings.

34: R2! Where are you!? Oh, there you are. I had no idea that R2 wouldn't be in an X-Wing in this movie.

35: Backside details, a close look.

36: Front side. At this point, I'm really just being creative.

37: Cannons. I'm just being creative with the details.

38: A few of the details, I could barely see in the JJ Abrams YouTube video, but other than that, I'm making it up myself.

39: I never did finish the flat areas between the engines.

40: Backside details, yet again.

41: Keep in mind, the half-circle ends of the engines aren't the way they ended up being. I had to modify this in the last stages of the model build.

42: Making up the details near the R2 unit.

43: Wings closed. Now you can see, I've reshaped the ends of the engines, just below the exhausts, to a rounded rectangle look.

43: Wings Open. Now you can see, I've reshaped the ends of the engines, just below the exhausts, to a rounded rectangle look.

44: Beauty Pass

45: Beauty Pass