Hello sorry it's been so long since I first posted the Endor Project but it's taken a while to get a good idea for my next diorama but I had it and here it is:
It's a FineMolds Y-Wing Build. I'm going to turn my beautiful kit into wreckage. It will be situated on a lonely and deserted beach. The idea for the dio was inspired by this build:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234925081
I really want to try making the sea using the technique employed in the above build. I started my dio yesterday. Photos are in my photobucket account in an album titled Forgotten Battle. There are sub-albums to this main album which show my daily WIP shots. It will make it easier to navigate the album as the build progresses. Here is the album, please click on the drop arrow to access the daily WIP shots
http://s1154.beta.photobucket.com/user/Clonegurl/library/Battle%20Forgotten%20-%20FineMolds%20Y-Wing%20Build
In regards to yesterday and today's WIP shots, this is what I did to the piece: first I trimmed, sanded and glued the piece then I took a soldering iron to it to cause maximum damage lol. Then I painted the entire piece with a mix of Flat Black paint and Tamiya Acrylic Paint X-20A Thinner, 50-50. I then used Humbrol Acrylic paint No 40 (grey colour), over that I used more of the diluted flat black mix to weather the grey and then I painted the rust using Reeves acrylic paint, Burnt Sienna. The last thing I did was highlight the dashboard control of the cock pit with the diluted flat black. This morning I used matte acrylic silver paint to return some silver/grey back to the piece and also to pick out details in the dashboard and pilot cock pit area.
I want the wreckage to tell its own story ie how it came down. So I heavily incinerated the fighter pilot area to give a clear indication this where the ship took the hit that felled it from the sky. The fuselage will not be so heavily weathered in this fashion. The fuselage is also one the more beautifully detailed pieces of the kit and I want to be able to see most of the detail still even after weathering. The fuselage will be the place where all the fun with the greeblies will happen
I'm thinking about using Plaster of Paris as a base for the beach before applying a layer of putty (muillput) to sink the ship into before dusting over with sand to create the beach. Any thoughts about this technique? Any suggestions regarding materials and techniques I can use for the beach? As some of you may know I am only a beginner and would welcome any feedback and suggestions about how to progress.
What I dislike about my piece: the visual brush strokes behind the seat area. What I like is rust effects and the twisted, wreckage look the soldering iron gave me.
It's a FineMolds Y-Wing Build. I'm going to turn my beautiful kit into wreckage. It will be situated on a lonely and deserted beach. The idea for the dio was inspired by this build:
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234925081
I really want to try making the sea using the technique employed in the above build. I started my dio yesterday. Photos are in my photobucket account in an album titled Forgotten Battle. There are sub-albums to this main album which show my daily WIP shots. It will make it easier to navigate the album as the build progresses. Here is the album, please click on the drop arrow to access the daily WIP shots
http://s1154.beta.photobucket.com/user/Clonegurl/library/Battle%20Forgotten%20-%20FineMolds%20Y-Wing%20Build
In regards to yesterday and today's WIP shots, this is what I did to the piece: first I trimmed, sanded and glued the piece then I took a soldering iron to it to cause maximum damage lol. Then I painted the entire piece with a mix of Flat Black paint and Tamiya Acrylic Paint X-20A Thinner, 50-50. I then used Humbrol Acrylic paint No 40 (grey colour), over that I used more of the diluted flat black mix to weather the grey and then I painted the rust using Reeves acrylic paint, Burnt Sienna. The last thing I did was highlight the dashboard control of the cock pit with the diluted flat black. This morning I used matte acrylic silver paint to return some silver/grey back to the piece and also to pick out details in the dashboard and pilot cock pit area.
I want the wreckage to tell its own story ie how it came down. So I heavily incinerated the fighter pilot area to give a clear indication this where the ship took the hit that felled it from the sky. The fuselage will not be so heavily weathered in this fashion. The fuselage is also one the more beautifully detailed pieces of the kit and I want to be able to see most of the detail still even after weathering. The fuselage will be the place where all the fun with the greeblies will happen
I'm thinking about using Plaster of Paris as a base for the beach before applying a layer of putty (muillput) to sink the ship into before dusting over with sand to create the beach. Any thoughts about this technique? Any suggestions regarding materials and techniques I can use for the beach? As some of you may know I am only a beginner and would welcome any feedback and suggestions about how to progress.
What I dislike about my piece: the visual brush strokes behind the seat area. What I like is rust effects and the twisted, wreckage look the soldering iron gave me.
