Hasbro X-Wing Red 5

Update!

Here's another piece of work that I finished a few days back. My friend and owner of the Hasbro Millenium Falcon that I did a while back recommended me to his friend who wants to repaint his Hasbro X-Wing. I have worked on the Finemolds version so having a big one like this was going to be another challenge for me. But as we all know, the more we practice, the more experience we get and I for one am truly thankful for an opportunity like this.

Here was how it looked like before I worked on the fella...

As you can see, it looks rather plain despite having the blasts marks and a little bit of weathering. Missing is the markings on the wings to indicate it being Red 5, Luke Skywalker's personal starfighter. And the other markings are all paper decals which to me is not really a good thing.

So after stripping of the decals and cleaning it, primed it accordingly and making sure that I got every nook and cranny of the ship. Once primed, coated it with its base color for a few layers and making sure that its spread even. Putting it out to dry for 2 whole days in the nice hot sun would definitely assure me the paints will stick. Then came the horrifying task of masking it to make the details and markings.

The wing markings. It was tedious but fun...LOL...

When all of it is done, the weathering began! One thing that we always have to remember when doing weathering is that we have to know where to put it and how the ship flows. Once the weathering is done, I applied a very very thin layer of pale gray which was composed of 50% paint and 50% thinner. This is a technique I lovingly call the 'space dust'. Spraying must be done from a length of 30-40 cm. Too close, you will end up covering the markings and weathering and all work is done for nothing...heh...

And here it is...

Some close up shots:

And there you have it. There will be more Star Wars vehicles posted soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

Fine Molds 1/72 X-Wing Starfighter

Update!!

Holy un-updated blog Batman! (tribute to Dark Knight movie)...

Alright...so I haven't been updating awhile (lot of things going around...my day job, my part time job...my misc jobs...heh...). Anyhoo, as I'm still working on the Alternator Army Project and also an Akatsuki conversion kit (this is an awesome Gundam kit!) I took a little break to do something different (just to get my bearings back in place that is...was losing focus on the akatsuki and army...) and was offered to do a some Star Wars model kits and not to mention, its from Fine Molds! Awhile back I did a 1/72 Y-Wing and now...lo' behold an X-Wing!

Okay, so what did I do? Nothing much but an experimental weathering technique (luckily it worked...hahaha) which I was dying to do. In my head (and also my friend who comissioned me the project...) was going for realism. I'm so used to doing clean and light shading on kits that doing weathering was sort of a challenge.

As you all remember, the X-Wings were considered the flagship fighters for the Rebel Alliance and in the episode A New Hope, it was said that these fighters were already battle weary and has seen some battles before Luke joined up. Hence the weathering of age old space battles. But I took it another step by making it look more weathered. And here it is...

Rebel Alliance X-Wing Starfighter: Red 5

There you go...May The Force Be With You...