LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter set

We got the LEGO Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter (set 9493) recently. It was a bit too difficult for my son, but with a little help from me (mostly to hint if he put the pieces in the wrong places), we managed to put together this great LEGO model of the X-Wing starfighter in about 2 hours.

He loves playing with it, especially with the wings snapping into attack position by turning a knob at the rear. And the set comes with a lightsaber for Luke Skywalker (depicted as a pilot), and his favourite R2-D2. In this set, R2-D2 has to sit sideways; he solves this by turning R2-D2's head sideways so that R2-D2 continues to look ahead when sitting behind the canopy.

Only problem is that this set comes with only the front landing gear. There are no main landing gears; something which I will probably make good by fixing a few pieces of LEGO blocks near the engines.

All in, this is a great set, easy enough to put together in a short time, simple yet effective way to open and close the wings, and 2 pilots (one of them is Luke Skywalker) and 2 droids (one of them is R2-D2).