JPG’s 1/4222 Interdictor and Enforcer preview

[nicholassagan]

For your previewing pleasure! Jimi sent me the casts for these a few weeks ago and I got soooo excited I just had to start them! They’ve been in this state for a little bit now because I JUST got permission to post these. (thx jimi!!). I’ll try and make some time to get them buttoned up reeeaal soon here.

The kit comes with parts to make either variant. The engine nozzles, bridge, tip and main hull are the same for both. Not included are the little wires and needles for the antennas and such...

Interdictor parts

assembled

preshaded

the only issue (that's my design fault) is the joint where the head meets the neck. it needs just a touch of putty and sanding.

Enforcer parts

primed

preshaded

 

[Quaralane]

Small, but look very well detailed

 

[JohnSimmons]

Yeah you did a good job on those!

 

[Grendels]

Look like good kits!

 

[nicholassagan]

Thanks guys! Quick correction: the kits WILL include wire bits for the antennas!!

 

[nicholassagan]

Base coat!!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Most excellent.

 

[ModelMakerMike]

Those are pretty darned kewl.
But kind of small....Did you create them for miniature gaming?

 

[nicholassagan]

thanks! but no, not for gaming. they are in scale with the Ertl Star Destroyer and my Venator and Dreadnaught kits. There's also a few other support ships in the same scale. My aim is to flush out the fleets in the scale.

 

[ModelMakerMike]

Oh kewl! I wasn't aware of that. What are these ship's roles?
Can you post a pic or two of them next to the Star Destroyer?

 

[nicholassagan]

Here's the backgrounders...

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Immobilizer_418_cruiser

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Enforcer-class_picket_cruiser

i'll get some pics up of 4222 fleets a little later

 

[ModelMakerMike]

...Nice....thank you.

 

[nicholassagan]

While the final photo shoot raw images are processing, I figured I would share some of the in-progress painting pics.

After the preshading and base of light gray (straight from the bottle, no mix) I decided to give them a heavy wash of MiG Productions cool gray. The wash is a pretty good effect for most ships, but you have to be careful for these smaller scale capital ships mostly because it tends to look a little out of scale and heavy handed. So even though the wash was cleaned up pretty well, I decided to tone it down a bit. To do this I mixed up some Tamiya flat white with thinner (1:1 mix ratio) and did some nice and even misting on both of them. Not only did it tone down the wash like I had hoped, it gave a more properly “Imperial” color tone to the ships. Final touches for painting were a little bit of silver on the antennas, some heavy chrome inside the engines with clear blue over it and some silver drybrushing. For weathering I used a stiff brush and some sooty-colored pastels.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Nice job Nick! You certainly made those details pop!

 

[nicholassagan]

All done! Since I took a ton of photos for each, here are the links to the separate slideshows.

Interdictor
http://nicholassagan.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/jpgs-14222-interdictor-class-cruiser-complete/

Enforcer
http://nicholassagan.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/jpgs-14222-enforcer-class-cruiser-complete/

And some select pics of each!

Interdictor

Enforcer

 

[JohnSimmons]

 

[Quaralane]

Those look excellent

 

[nicholassagan]

Oh guys! I totally forgot until just now! Here's a shot of the growing 1/4222 fleet!

 

[ModelMakerMike]

I really like seeing the fleet all together

 

[ulvdemon]

I have this sudden urge to start collecting a fleet in 1/4222 scale.