The miniature X-wing starfighter was used in a movie titled ‘Star Wars‘ in 1977 and after 46 years it was auctioned at $3 million in an event held on Sunday October 16th 2023 at Heritage auctions in Dallas. A Star War is a proposed system of artificial satellites armed with lasers to destroy enemies missiles in space.
The X-wing was designed by Greg Jein a Hollywood model designer, he was a Chinese American born in 1945 in Los Angeles, California. He created a miniature for use in many films and television series. Some of the movies were ‘Sense of Scale’, ‘Close Encounters of The Third Kind’ and ‘1941 Buckaroo Banzai Declassified’.
