COME FLY WITH ME !

 Why is it the Rebellion keeps sending me on missions to desert worlds when my homeworld is aquatic ! Don't they realise how bad for my skin this is !

So I did indeed get an A-Wing for my birthday, along with a new Dremel, as my old one was seriously dying, and a gift from my inlaws which I will cover in a later post, once I've got something to show.

The model was an easy kit by Revell, so went together really quick, which ment more time to concentrate on the painting, using the experiments on the ARC 170 I built the weathering up with lots of layers of glaze black over the colour scheme I had painted, with adding a few areas of pure wash to darken certain bits.

The kit came with lights and sound, so I didn't have to do much with the engine.

Above is the reference picture I used for the colour scheme, as Palitoy released an A-Wing toy specifically for Si Mon.

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

Cheers Dave 

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

HOUSE PARTY !

 It is indeed party time for me as I have finished Ben's house, this includes all the exterior details of stacks and moisture vaporators that were missing. The moisture vaporator was purchased from Ebay, as the time it took to arrive allowed me to finish other bits.

Even though you won't actually see it, I painted the inside of the front wall, and did a very light colour on the roof

I also got the last of the interior pieces finished including the two chairs and chest ( this piece actually took longer than a figure to sculpt) and have included a couple more pictures of details that didn't show in the last set of pictures.

Here's the exterior reference picture to show what I was aiming for.

That's all for this post, I'm going to see what other trouble I can get in, pretty sure I have a floor plan for Jabba's Palace somewhere, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

THE DEVILS IN THE DETAIL

 This week has been mainly concentrating on the interior detail for Ben's House, other than a brief interlude where my body wouldn't allow play.

There is still some interior detail to finish including the chest Ben keeps Anakin's lightsabre in, the storage containers and a couple of chairs, but happy with the progress so far.

Here we can see the stuffed armadillo that I mentioned in a previous post along with a collection of other artefacts, plus one of the reference pictures I used to achieve this.

Really happy with how the stove turned out compared to the reference picture.

My wife's favourite part is the cloak !

Table for one

Above is more pictures of other details around the house, I had to use multiple different reference points including a 1:6 scale model of Obi Wan for the antique rifle and bino's.

Hopefully next time I will have completely finished the interior and the exterior, so until next time stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

NIKTO OR NOT

 Adding to my characters for Jabba's Palace I needed three more Nikto's, as I'd already converted one of the WOTC figures sometime back.

Before we moved house last year I had picked up two more of WOTC Nikto figures, but wasn't really happy with the sculpts, and so they sat on my desk staring at me, until this recent Star Wars kick.

As you can see from the above sculpt it was seriously lacking in facial detail plus the outfit was all wrong.

After a bit of green he looked like this.

Finally we have the finished Vedain, if your not sure who he was it was the Nikto fighting Lando on the skiff.

The next model below also suffered with a lack of facial detail and the wrong outfit.

Below is the finished version of Lathe who was the Nikto on the second skiff, and you barely saw him. Yes I forgot to take a green stuff shot of this one !

 This last model actually started off as a spare Weequay I'd got.

Below is the finished version of Vizam, who was the Nikto firing the heavy cannon at the heroes on the skiff.

I've also got the basic colours on Ben's house done.

I've made the exterior slightly darker than the interior, as it appeared in the film. At this point I could call it finished, as it would be perfectly adequate as a scenery piece, but I'm going to start super detailing it, I've already started on the stuffed Armadillo.

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

Cheers Dave