X-ray spectra of the detected LBVs (from top to bottom: eta Car – from the 2XMM database, W243, Cyg OB2 #12 – from Rauw 2011, and GAL 026.47+00.02), along with their best-fit model (see text for details). The eta Car spectrum corresponds to XMM-MOS2 data taken at the June 2003 maximum, which are dominated by the soft emission of the outer ejecta below 1.5 keV and by colliding-wind emisson above that limit (Hamaguchi et al. 2007). The W243 spectrum corresponds to the 5′′ extraction region, and was re-binned by a factor of 10. Note the strong iron line at 6.7 keV for eta Car and Cyg OB2 #12.