 Hey everybody! Welcome back to my Star Wars channel. I'm your host, my name's David. Today I've got a really special video for you. We're going to look at the Build Your Own X-Wing Model from D'Agostini. We'll stay back far enough to cover you. My scope shows the tower, but I can't see the exhaust port. All right, the D'Agostini Build Your Own X-Wing. I got this for Christmas. I got this for Christmas. It's a Build As You Go subscription-based model, so they send you a little package of model pieces every so often, maybe once a month, depending on your subscription level, and then you build it as you go. They send you the pieces, they send you a little magazine, they even send you some tools to put it all together. I received the first couple months for Christmas from my brother Patrick, who obviously loves me, right? Obviously loves me or loves Star Wars. He loves Star Wars just as much as I do. He'd probably say that he loves Star Wars more than me, but I love Star Wars more than him. Hey, if you're new to the channel, what I do is I review toys, I review vintage stuff, I review the classic books pretty soon. This year I'm going to head back to Celebration 2020 for the anniversary of Emperor Strikes Back, so you want to make sure you hit like and subscribe and keep tuning in for all that great Star Wars stuff. Basically, if it says Star Wars on it, I want to talk about it. I want to talk about it. So if you like Star Wars as much as me, definitely hit like and subscribe. Hit all your notifications so that you're alerted when my new videos go live. All right, the Diagostini build your own X-Wing. This thing is massive. It's a 118th scale, 118th scale. Its wingspan is 25 inches and it's 20 inches long. It weighs eight pounds. It has lights. It moves by remote control. It has a light up R2-D2. This thing is insane. When I first saw this in the box, I just couldn't even tell how big it was and even saying like 118th scale in my brain. I'm like, I don't know how big that is, but then when you watch that video, when you watch this video and you see it against the guy in the video, you're like, this thing is massive. So one of the reasons why I haven't built it yet, you're like, you got it for Christmas. How can you haven't started building it yet? Well, number one, I wanted to show you this. I want to make this video for you and I want to show you the packages. So I wanted to have all the packages still in their packaging to show you. And also because I'm trying to figure out where this is going to go, usually when you build a model, especially something that's large, it takes up space as you build. And I've got two little kids at home. So I'm trying to figure out, okay, where am I going to build this? And then where am I going to put it when it's done? Like this is like a museum replica thing. And I want to show this to you as I go. Well, so I'll make some subsequent videos after this, kind of show you the pieces that come in and then show you my build progress as I go. I'm not a model builder. I don't have an overhead camera, so it's not going to be a video like that. There's other videos on YouTube that already do that. You could watch those if you wanted to. I'll just show you the pieces and some of the things as I go and you kind of live like curiously through me. That's kind of how that's how YouTube works, right? That's how YouTube works. I've also been worried about having the right glue and putting this together correctly. But from what I've seen so far, glue isn't really heavily involved. A lot of these pieces snap together or they screw together with metal screws because of just the sheer weight of this thing. So I guess that's good news because glue and I, we don't, we don't mix well. I don't do good with decals either. Like, I'm terrible at putting on stickers. So that's another bad, another thing I'm afraid of when I, when I see models, right? All right. So let's talk about it. So when you order this, when you subscribe to it, or when your brother buys it for you for Christmas, you're going to get a little magazine like this with every single shipment. So it usually is going to say what packet it belongs to, right? And I'll show you this on a different camera. So you got beautiful full color illustrations. You'll also have stories. This one's got a little introduction about Ralph Macquarie has characters that have flown X-wings, but then there's also some other pilots that get highlighted in other magazines. They're going to go through the X-wing pilot costume, the flight helmet. And then they're going to talk about how to build the model pieces that you receive. So you're going to get step by step color pictures that walk you through every single element that you receive that month. And everything is going to be spelled out for you completely. There's also some video tutorials on YouTube. Like I said, Diego Steney has some themselves, but I believe they stop at issue four. And then the backside has a little preview of what is to come. If we walk through the eight issues that I have, issue one contains the cockpit canopy, a cannon, and R2-D2. Issue two will have R2-D2's right leg, a laser generator, a laser LED, and the cockpit base. Issue three has R2-D2's left leg, a laser housing, cockpit frames, plus a free screwdriver. Issue four has cockpit parts, R2-D2 parts, a battery box, a flash suppressor, and an emitter. Issue five has R2-D2 center leg, instrument panels, and instrument lighting displays. Issue six has the cockpit shell and some screws. Issue seven has the upper starboard wing top skin, trailing edge detail, power couplings, and laser cannon support. And issue eight has an internal wing frame, plus external and internal wing details. All right, so how do you get one of these bad boys yourself? You have to head on down to model-space.com. Model-space.com, I will put a link below in the description for you. I believe they've got other models as well. I think my brother is building a Millennium Falcon, so I can't even imagine how big that one is. All right, so how much is this? That's what you want to know, right? How much is this going to cost me? How much will this set me back? Well, it's a subscription base, right? I said that. So you pay per month and you can cancel anytime, although I don't know why you'd want to cancel, because once you cancel, then you're left with half an X-wing, right? Half a model. But I suppose if you were, you know, wanted to pause for a little while, you can start back up at a later time. There's a couple of different ways you can subscribe to this. There's the $75 a month option for 25 months, or you can pay $150 for 12 months, which roughly means this entire model is going to cost you about $1,800. There's also a premium offer that you can get, which includes the things that you see here. So there's some cable boxes, a figure, a ladder. It makes a little diorama set for your display. All right, so so far that's everything I can say about the Diagostini build your own X-wing. Have you seen this? Have you seen it in person? Are you building one? What's your take on model building? Have you built other models? Maybe you've built the rebel models. Hey, give me some pointers. Give me some tips. Tell me what you think in the comments below. I read all of them. May the force be with you guys. I'll see you next time. Bye.