Icons Halloween X-wing

This is the iconic Icons « Halloween » X-wing. A special project made by Mireya Romo Bowen and Robert Bowen.

Here is what Rob says about the story of the ship :

“The first memories that come to mind are Jim Latta asking Mireya & I to design a special holiday themed X-wing for the lobby. Ideally we would do several, a ship for the different holidays that would be switched out (monthly ? whenever ?).

Halloween was the upcoming holiday, so it was the first ship created. Sadly another ship was never built as Icons started having a lot of financial problems. I'm sure we told Jim - Halloween would be perfect since we would not need perfect parts, twisted ones, imperfect would create the eerie look. This was the first art project Mireya and I worked on. We had worked on other projects before, but not as artistically free. At this point I was head of airbrush dept. She of detail paint dept. We did not have much time, just a day or two to complete the piece.

No concept art was made, just ideas. We were under just a tight schedule with the design and Jim just said to go for it.  Luckily orange & black lent itself well to the design. I love Mireya's flaming skull design she painted on the sides. Again this was all no prep time, whatever idea comes to mind, just toss it in and see.

She & I did discuss a lot of interesting ideas for creating a Christmas X-wing. That would have been a fun project as well.

We got to talk about what would look good - snow on the base, what colors would work, etc.  We at least got to discuss some ideas, but nothing was ever written down.”

That piece is coming back from Mireya and Rob where it was restored after it’s trip from Japan to France during which it suffered a little bit !!

A great thank you to them to have restored the X-wing to what it was and for all their efforts and kindness in that task.

Mireya and Rob…you’re great people, thank you very much.