fubar
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Thought i'd have a crack at this kit just as a bit of fun and a good chance to practice my weathering techniques.
The kit itself is ok, its one of the pre-painted Revell easykits, this is Obi-Wan's fighter. It went together in about an hour, there were a few problems getting the wings to fix in place and the whole cockpit assembly isn't the greatest tbh, lots of big gaps which needed gluing, but as this is just a practice kit i'm not overly bothered.
I'm half tempted to buy another of these kits and do the job properly, strip the paint, glue instead of clip together and fill all these aweful gaps....i'll see how much i like the kit when i'm done, i'm not a great fan of Episode's I-III but this is like a forerunner of a TIE so i do kinda like this ship. ;D
These are the products i'm going to be trying out on this project, first step is an overall dirtying up with a very thin wash of black/brown oils....then i'll take it from there.
So far i have touched up the areas of missing paint, some spots missed by the makers of the kit and others where i had to cut coloured parts from the sprues it left a spot showing the plastic colour.
One annoying thing with the kit though is it comes with no display stand so i'm going to have to find/make something if i decide to keep the kit when i'm done. :
Any tips or advice on wethering are more than welcome.
Thanks for looking.
TTFN Matt
The kit itself is ok, its one of the pre-painted Revell easykits, this is Obi-Wan's fighter. It went together in about an hour, there were a few problems getting the wings to fix in place and the whole cockpit assembly isn't the greatest tbh, lots of big gaps which needed gluing, but as this is just a practice kit i'm not overly bothered.
I'm half tempted to buy another of these kits and do the job properly, strip the paint, glue instead of clip together and fill all these aweful gaps....i'll see how much i like the kit when i'm done, i'm not a great fan of Episode's I-III but this is like a forerunner of a TIE so i do kinda like this ship. ;D
These are the products i'm going to be trying out on this project, first step is an overall dirtying up with a very thin wash of black/brown oils....then i'll take it from there.
So far i have touched up the areas of missing paint, some spots missed by the makers of the kit and others where i had to cut coloured parts from the sprues it left a spot showing the plastic colour.
One annoying thing with the kit though is it comes with no display stand so i'm going to have to find/make something if i decide to keep the kit when i'm done. :
Any tips or advice on wethering are more than welcome.
Thanks for looking.
TTFN Matt