Star Wars Theme Group Build

Pantherman said:

Now that's a work of art. Pantherman

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foenetik said:

Everyone's builds are looking great!

Made some more progress today:

Riser so I could bury one knee joint a bit
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Base layer of Sculptamold. First time using it. Not too bad to work with. Takes a while to dry, but luckily it was 91 F today so I let it bake outside for most of the day while I primed the model.
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To get the impression, I put a bunch down and then put cling wrap over it and pressed the model down. Worked pretty good. Most of this will be under snow anyhow.
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Glad I joined this GB. Haven't built anything in a while, it's good motivation.

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banistersmind said:

Loving your work Foenetik! The impression looks really good.

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foenetik said:

Everyone's builds are looking great!

Made some more progress today:

Riser so I could bury one knee joint a bit
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Base layer of Sculptamold. First time using it. Not too bad to work with. Takes a while to dry, but luckily it was 91 F today so I let it bake outside for most of the day while I primed the model.
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To get the impression, I put a bunch down and then put cling wrap over it and pressed the model down. Worked pretty good. Most of this will be under snow anyhow.
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Glad I joined this GB. Haven't built anything in a while, it's good motivation.

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banistersmind said:

Had my first minor disaster in the past day when I discovered I'd lost the rear gun which I was ready to install. A desperate search failed to find it and I was staring down the barrel of not being able to complete the Shuttle (an OCD's worst nightmare).

As I was looking through some miscellaneous greeblies I had stashed away, I came across a missing quad gun from my old Millennium Falcon model kit which has unfortunately seen better days. That gave me an idea for a solution. The wishbone caliper that would have held the quad in place was fortunately still on the model so I decided to grab it and repurpose it. I think it looks pretty good, all things considered.

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blakeh1 said:

On the other hand the red flags are that you may not be who you seem and are using "stolen" images of someone else and are trying to lure someone into something nefarious

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banistersmind said:

I've spent the weekend working on the weathering and detailing and I have to say, I have found it to be a frustrating process. For some reason, the panel line accent colour kept bleeding out from the lines on the model to the point where it was looking blotchy and kept having to rub them back with some turpentine on a q-tip. Achieving the water run off was also testing because I didn't have a real steady hand and I think the q-tip was too thick so that, too, became trial and error. I eventually swapped over to a paint brush gently used some soot to achieve a better-ish look. I used a Tamiya Smoke to achieve the tint in the cockpit window. Again, it wasn't perfect. I was perhaps too heavy handed with the layerin and some of the paint gathered at the bottom of the window but you don't notice it when the window is installed in place. I'm going to slow down a bit with these final steps and stop work if I find myself getting frustrated with it.

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stevethefish said:

OK, my turn for an update on my sofubi Y-Wing. I haven't glued it together yet, so this is just a sloppy dry fit. Thus it doesn't look straight. So far I have only glued the nose cannons to the cockpit pod, sensor array domes to the nacelle tips and the engine cans into place, and I have glued the disk vectrals to the support pylons at the ends of the nacelles but I have yet to secure them to the engine pods, which are also not glued to the engine pylons, the fuselage, cockpit, and such.

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So what do you think about the pipes? This kit has you furnish your own pipes, so I am using Wave's C-Line copper (brass?) rods. Since some are painting theirs a copper color, I think I might just leave mine unpainted. A viewer on YouTube suggested to me to paint the wires a metallic color for scale, but I think it looks fine as it is. What do you think? They look a bit too shiny since the fluorescent light is shining directly onto them in this picture.

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Unfortunately, the cockpit really should have been made of resin. The disk vectrals at the end of the nacelles' support pylons are made of resin, so they could have made the canopy of resin too, I think.

I'll paint the R2 astromech with white trim as well as cockpit instrumentation. The nose cannons, top ion turret, and landing gears are pewter while the nacelle pylons are copper (brass?).

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stevethefish said:

OK, my turn for an update on my sofubi Y-Wing. I haven't glued it together yet, so this is just a sloppy dry fit. Thus it doesn't look straight. So far I have only glued the nose cannons to the cockpit pod, sensor array domes to the nacelle tips and the engine cans into place, and I have glued the disk vectrals to the support pylons at the ends of the nacelles but I have yet to secure them to the engine pods, which are also not glued to the engine pylons, the fuselage, cockpit, and such.

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So what do you think about the pipes? This kit has you furnish your own pipes, so I am using Wave's C-Line copper (brass?) rods. Since some are painting theirs a copper color, I think I might just leave mine unpainted. A viewer on YouTube suggested to me to paint the wires a metallic color for scale, but I think it looks fine as it is. What do you think? They look a bit too shiny since the fluorescent light is shining directly onto them in this picture.

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Unfortunately, the cockpit really should have been made of resin. The disk vectrals at the end of the nacelles' support pylons are made of resin, so they could have made the canopy of resin too, I think.

I'll paint the R2 astromech with white trim as well as cockpit instrumentation. The nose cannons, top ion turret, and landing gears are pewter while the nacelle pylons are copper (brass?).

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banistersmind said:

I've spent the weekend working on the weathering and detailing and I have to say, I have found it to be a frustrating process. For some reason, the panel line accent colour kept bleeding out from the lines on the model to the point where it was looking blotchy and kept having to rub them back with some turpentine on a q-tip. Achieving the water run off was also testing because I didn't have a real steady hand and I think the q-tip was too thick so that, too, became trial and error. I eventually swapped over to a paint brush gently used some soot to achieve a better-ish look. I used a Tamiya Smoke to achieve the tint in the cockpit window. Again, it wasn't perfect. I was perhaps too heavy handed with the layerin and some of the paint gathered at the bottom of the window but you don't notice it when the window is installed in place. I'm going to slow down a bit with these final steps and stop work if I find myself getting frustrated with it.

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stevethefish said:

OK, my turn for an update on my sofubi Y-Wing. I haven't glued it together yet, so this is just a sloppy dry fit. Thus it doesn't look straight. So far I have only glued the nose cannons to the cockpit pod, sensor array domes to the nacelle tips and the engine cans into place, and I have glued the disk vectrals to the support pylons at the ends of the nacelles but I have yet to secure them to the engine pods, which are also not glued to the engine pylons, the fuselage, cockpit, and such.

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So what do you think about the pipes? This kit has you furnish your own pipes, so I am using Wave's C-Line copper (brass?) rods. Since some are painting theirs a copper color, I think I might just leave mine unpainted. A viewer on YouTube suggested to me to paint the wires a metallic color for scale, but I think it looks fine as it is. What do you think? They look a bit too shiny since the fluorescent light is shining directly onto them in this picture.

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Unfortunately, the cockpit really should have been made of resin. The disk vectrals at the end of the nacelles' support pylons are made of resin, so they could have made the canopy of resin too, I think.

I'll paint the R2 astromech with white trim as well as cockpit instrumentation. The nose cannons, top ion turret, and landing gears are pewter while the nacelle pylons are copper (brass?).

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Pantherman said:

Bit more done, most of the detail painting is done, just got to finish the top section.

Now here is where I am looking for some help. I think I would like to finish this without any weathering and I would like to display it in flight, any ideas on how to make a stand would be welcome.

I will then build the same slave 1 but with all the weathering and on the ground so although both are the same model they should look different.

What do you all think? Pantherman
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Pantherman said:

I thought I would make a start on my Mandalorian so hope it's OK with you all if I add this to the group build ?

I decided to spray the silver coloured parts in chrome, think it looks much better. Pantherman
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Pantherman said:

So I'm pretty much done with the slave build. No weathering as wanted this one nice and shiny. Just waiting for my stand to arrive and then I will post some finished photos. Pantherman

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Pantherman said:

Got a fair bit more of this kit done. It's all either assembled or waiting for painting prior to assembly.

I'm so glad I decided to have a go at this snap together kit as being in bed trying to glue bit's together just doesn't work .

I will hopefully post some photos tomorrow of where I am with Mando. Pantherman

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blakeh1 said:

Hope you feel better soon and nothing too serious

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