What do you need?
download our template
a cardbooard box
pencil and ruler
Stanley knife + scissors
Bison contact glue
wooden skewers
ribbed paper (on a roll beschuit)
cap from douche foam
white and blue paint, paint brush
A box of Coolblue is fun to recycle, photograph your craft then upload your photo on the Coolblue website. If your photo is chosen as the best of the month, you win 100.00 euros. Snazzie and Joey join in, we make the Starwars X-wing fighter!
How to make a Starwars X-wing Fighter
First download the template
The total length of our Starwars X-wing fighter is 39 cm, the wingspan is 59 cm.
We start with the cabin, use a metal ruler when tracing or cutting the patterns from the template. The cutting must be done by an adult!
Trace the cabin on cardboard.
Cut out the cabin as indicated.
Make creases using scissors.
Cut out the circle for R2D2.
Glue the back of the cabin.
Trace the body of the X-wing.
Cut out the drawing.
Cut on the marked lines.
Cut out the glue strips too.
Crease lines with closed scissors.
Fold the creased lines.
Fold the glue strips.
Here you see the 3 open lines.
Cut out the indicated triangles.
How to use Bison contact glue
- Spread glue on both sides of the object you want to stick together, when using contact glue.
- Allow the glue to dry for 5 minutes then press the glued sides firmly together.
Spread glue on the 2 big glue strips.
Place clothes pins on the strips.
Spread glue on the other glue strips.
Fold the body together.
Place rubber bands on the body of the airplane then allow the glue to dry thoroughly.
Trace the wings on the card board then cut them out.
Slide the wings through the holes then stick the cabin on the airplane.
Cut strips of the ribbed paper and roll them.
Glue the rolls closed at the ends, allow them to dry.
Cut to fit, stick the 4 thick engines together.
Stick the engines on the X-wing besides and under the cabin.
Stick R2D2 in the hole in the cabin of the X-wing Fighter.
Glue 4 slim engines on the outside of the wings, stick in skewers.
We have figures and vehicles from the first Starwars movies, but if you do not you can still put an R2D2 in your X-Wing Fighter.
How to make an R2 of a cap
Paint the cap white or silver, let the paint dry.
Draw on it with a blue felt pen.*
Stick R2D2 in the hole.
*An example to draw R2D2 you also find on our PDF.
Regrettably our picture did not win but we liked competing very much indeed. Joey found a nice spot for the X-Wing Fighter in his room.
Check out the Coolblue website, amazing there are so many creative Dutchies. The submissions are awesome!