Sunday 4 October 2020

ARC 170

 As you may recall in one of my recent posts, I am looking forward to getting my hands on A-Wing shortly, while waiting I thought I could do with some practice on heavy weathering, and decided to give my Arc 170 a repaint.

I bought this model when it first came out, even though it was an easykit by Revell I still wanted it, I stuck it together properly at the time and cleaned up any joins, and then that's how it sat on my shelf until now.

As you can see by the picture above the bare plastic hasn't aged well, and really needed a touch up. As for the prepaint markings they weren't bad at all just patchy where I cleaned up the seams.




So after a little paint I ended up with this, the hevy streaks were done with Nuln Oil wash, and the lighter overall streaking was done with a black glaze. I have added some chipping underneath the grime to bring it more inline with this reference picture.

Now some of you may be saying where's the wing guns ? Well here's the thing I've found one side, but still looking for the other, and I want to do them both at the same time, so they will have to wait for now.

That's all for this post, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

12 comments:

  1. Lovely bit of weathering! Much improved, I don't have enough knowledge to know the wing guns were missing!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain, tried a more slap approach on this one to see how it would work. No problem on the wing guns, just thought I would mention it so no one thought it was an oversight ! LOL

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  2. Things must be slow if you are repainting old paint jobs.:) Big improvement though.

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    1. Thanks John, it's been on my to do list for a long time, and as it turns out perfect timing for something new, but more on that in a later post ! LOL

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  3. Wingguns or not, the re-paint looks excellent and compares well with the reference pic.

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    1. Thank you Joe, was pleased with the end result and another model almost finished

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  4. Very nice work there Dave, a great improvement over the original pre-paint.

    Cheers Roger.

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    1. Thank you Roger, and a couple of new tools in the box comes in very handy.

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  5. Excellent weathering/wear and tear on that one, Dave!

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    1. Thank you Matt, it was a worth while exercise as it's making painting the A-Wing a lot easier

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  6. That turned out very well Dave, hope you can find the missing gun.

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    1. Thank you Frank, I know I've seen it since the move, so it has to be in one of five boxes ! LOL

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