Art Model Building - Imperial Walker, Perfect Grade Bandai Millennium Falcon, X-Wing, 1:144 Millennium Falcon, Y-Wings, Macross

[Kamandi]

$235 on Amazon. Worth it.

 

[Kamandi]

"Red Jammer" incoming.

 

[Kamandi]

Over the weekend I redid a bunch of pipework to match the rough look of the model built in '75. "Red Jammer" was the prototype for the other Y-Wings built for production and no two models were the same. When this one was painted the Y-Wings were going to be part of Red Squadron. This model was never re-painted since it was boxed up and sent to Pinewood Studios to aid the set builders for Yavin IV.

STUDIO MODEL:

I re-worked all the pipes to match the available references, shortened the forward canons Notice the R2 is an unfinished dome. I need to build or print something to match that. The model is primed and I airbrushed a darker base coat to match the appearance of these reference images. I will lighten and darken areas before I get into the battle damage & weathering. More to follow.

 

[RavenEye]

Nice detail work, can't wait to see painted.

 

[Kamandi]

Adding some markings. I'm doing a few extra just to flesh things out a bit.

It looks odd when it's so pristine yet has chipping in areas. More to come.

 

[Kamandi]

Paint and the beginning of some weathering.

 

[RavenEye]

Damn professional Kamandi, looks like you are 70% done with it.

 

[Kamandi]

Almost done. I have a couple of DK Lark markings that I'll hit but I'm hungry and this could use a bit of dry time. Tomorrow I have some panel lines to punch up and a bit of oil wash here and there. I also need to beat up those engine housing caps.

It looked so new a few days ago. I'm a worse spaceship owner than Han Solo.

 

[Kamandi]

Snack build. The paints I'm using are ArchiveX and they're color matched to the original floquil colors ILM painted with back in the 70's.

 

[RavenEye]

Those are both quality. That blockade runner looks dope as hell. What you plan on doing after the Y-Wing?

 

[Kamandi]

I need to finish up the 1:20 Veritech so I can stop feeling guilty about my foot dragging.

That Perfect Grade Falcon needs a paint job but I keep collecting reference for it. That's a grail piece for me.

After that I have a few options...

 

[Kamandi]

I had a few solid hours of painting tonight. I made some progress but so very much left to do.

Bandai 1:144 Falcon w/ ArchiveX paints.

 

[Kamandi]

Work continues....

 

[Kamandi]

"This is where the fun begins!"

I finished laying down the basic panels and now it's play time. Weathering, color correction, chipping, dremel work, sanding, streaks, streaks, streaks, streaks, streaks, streaks...

 

[RavenEye]

You know seeing work like this makes me miss the days we used props instead of cgi.

Even in it's base form of painting before weathering that Falcon looks 1000x better than what's been on big screen past couple of years.

 

[Darth Maul]

I don’t mind the CGI stuff, but it really needs to be made to look better. We still aren’t quite there yet. It’s missing an element that gives it the full illusion of realism.

 

[Kamandi]

Keep in mind that's the "warm up" Falcon. I wanted to do some paint study so I world have a better idea how to apply these colors on my Perfect Grade:

 

[Kamandi]

Streaking, weathering and refinements. There are many different weights and looks for the streaks on the Falcon but this is pretty damn close.

I'm rolling an idea around in my head that I will give myself a week to get as far as I can. At that point I'll probably jump over to the Perfect Grade Falcon. I will still finish this one and see if I can't get a few hundred for it on ebay. I'll use that to pay for another project.

 

[Kamandi]

Done(ish).

I gained what I needed from this paint study and now it's time to move on to the main event.

Final pics of the 1:144:

 

[Snake Plissken]

Really like the soot smears.