Star Wars Theme Group Build

[banistersmind]

Now that's a work of art. Pantherman

Thanks Pantherman!

 

[foenetik]

Everyone's builds are looking great!

Made some more progress today:

Riser so I could bury one knee joint a bit

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.

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.

Glad I joined this GB. Haven't built anything in a while, it's good motivation.

 

[banistersmind]

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.

Loving your work Foenetik! The impression looks really good.

 

[foenetik]

Loving your work Foenetik! The impression looks really good.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

 

[Pantherman]

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.

Looking good, it's always fun to build while watching others build something similar. It stops you getting side tracked. Pantherman

 

[banistersmind]

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.

 

[Pantherman]

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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Cool. Great thinking. Looking like it was made to be there. Pantherman

 

[stevethefish]

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

The first thing I thought is that this is a troll account. Then that "Are the instructions written in Mandarin?" question solidified my suspicion. Best case scenario, it was someone with a bad sense of humor. Or, it's something nefarious as you put it.

 

[banistersmind]

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.

 

[Pantherman]

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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It just looks cool. Pantherman

 

[stevethefish]

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.

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.

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?).

 

[ohbejuan]

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?).

I think the pipes look great. Actual metal instead of metallic paint is a win IMHO. Love the markings too. Looking really good.

 

[Pantherman]

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?).

It's really looking great. I like the pipes as is.
Pantherman

 

[blakeh1]

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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Excellent job!

Weathering is looking good, and color looks perfect

 

[blakeh1]

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?).

Looks great
Love the color scheme and weathering

Also you can't get more metallic looking than actual metal. Once you add some washes or a bit of grime to it it will look perfect.
Looks a bit more brass than copper though as far as metals, but with the blue and white color scheme the yellow of the brass goes better than a copper color would anyway

 

[Pantherman]

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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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

 

[Pantherman]

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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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

 

[banistersmind]

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

Ahh! Good work Pantherman! Looking forward to seeing your completed work!

 

[blakeh1]

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

Hope you feel better soon and nothing too serious

 

[Pantherman]

Hope you feel better soon and nothing too serious

Thanks for the kind words. On the mend now and almost back at the bench. Pantherman

 

[blakeh1]

Progress has slowed down, but at least still progress
Got some more of the decals on and refined weathering here and there

Did not realize just how any little decals there are. close to 200 not counting the panel decals (I painted instead of using those)

Although did take a big step ahead by actually putting the two saucer halves together. No more interior access except from the battery area and gun turret wells. A kind of scary step because if I forgot something lighting wise there is no going back. No longer can change my mind mind about doing an interior for the cockpit tube and opening the door. Frankly, I never would have finished I went that route

This finally allowed me to get on many of the missing surface greeblies as well

 

[Nikati]

Progress has slowed down, but at least still progress
Got some more of the decals on and refined weathering here and there

Did not realize just how any little decals there are. close to 200 not counting the panel decals (I painted instead of using those)

Although did take a big step ahead by actually putting the two saucer halves together. No more interior access except from the battery area and gun turret wells. A kind of scary step because if I forgot something lighting wise there is no going back. No longer can change my mind mind about doing an interior for the cockpit tube and opening the door. Frankly, I never would have finished I went that route

This finally allowed me to get on many of the missing surface greeblies as well


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The weathering is looking good. This is an amazing kit, I like it even more as this is one of the only kits based on A New Hope and not Empire. gluing the two halves together will make me nervous as well. When I finally get to mine I want to do as much of the interior as I am able to. I really want the hallway out of the cockpit lit, along with a bunch of lighting in the cockpit area. So Did your kit have over 600 pieces in total?

 

[blakeh1]

The weathering is looking good. This is an amazing kit, I like it even more as this is one of the only kits based on A New Hope and not Empire. gluing the two halves together will make me nervous as well. When I finally get to mine I want to do as much of the interior as I am able to. I really want the hallway out of the cockpit lit, along with a bunch of lighting in the cockpit area. So Did your kit have over 600 pieces in total?

Thanks

looks like 612 to be exact according to the Amazon listing.

It really is the pinnacle of Star wars kits in my opinion. Bandai's attention to detail and getting it right is unmatched.
and the level/crispness in detail for that scale is a whole other level
Round 2 has been really stepping up though with their new kits but still have some soft/skipped details.
Fine Molds are nice for what they were, and in certain areas like panel lines on the X-Wings they are more in scale than Bandai, but they dropped the ball in the shape/size and proportions department. I feel no urge to improve or fix a Bandai kit regarding accuracy.
My only knock on their kits are the X-Wing fuselage and Y-Wing head. The panel lines there are too thick and often made worse by the snap together nature of casing the stripes in molded in color parts

Funny, the Fine Molds Falcon actually has over 900 parts according to the box, but is in the end less detailed. To Bandai's credit, they did combine a lot of what was individual parts on the Fine Molds falcon into one part from what I remember, particularly with the side wall and maintenance pit stuff and engine deck

Either way, most of that count is the often tiny greeblies and piping. Anyone who has built a Bandai or even Fine Mold Y-Wing will be quite familiar with all those small bits

 

[Chuck Beemans]

That's the Y-Wing fighter

Haha! Same. I spent an hour sifting through my hardware drawers trying to find something to replace the little round antenna on my Gustav that apparently fell into a black hole on my living room carpet.

Ended up clipping the end of a small spring I salvaged from a broken printer.

I promptly told my wife, "see woman?! this is why I save things like this!"

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[Chuck Beemans]

Lol

You did such a fantastic job on this kit. I love a good challenge (dropping sacrifices to the carpet gods is my forte.)

Which kit is this?

Haha! Same. I spent an hour sifting through my hardware drawers trying to find something to replace the little round antenna on my Gustav that apparently fell into a black hole on my living room carpet.

Ended up clipping the end of a small spring I salvaged from a broken printer.

I promptly told my wife, "see woman?! this is why I save things like this!"

 

[GaryG64]

Haha! Same. I spent an hour sifting through my hardware drawers trying to find something to replace the little round antenna on my Gustav that apparently fell into a black hole on my living room carpet.

Ended up clipping the end of a small spring I salvaged from a broken printer.

I promptly told my wife, "see woman?! this is why I save things like this!"

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We can use that "thing" which they wanted us to throw away or wonder Why we keep. There is always a need for everything.

 

[Pantherman]

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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So I have manged to do a bit more on Din. Please excuse the not so tidy workbench on the bed, it's low on the PM scale but works.
Pantherman

 

[GaryG64]

So I have manged to do a bit more on Din. Please excuse the not so tidy workbench on the bed, it's low on the PM scale but works.
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Very nice! I like his cape and accessories. You did another professional job, brother!

And I like the weenie-dog paper too.

 

[Pantherman]

Very nice! I like his cape and accessories. You did another professional job, brother!

And I like the weenie-dog paper too.

Thanks. It's a beany tray my daughter gave me so no matter how uneven the surface the beany bit always makes the tray level. Stops all those tiny bit's rolling of the tray. Pantherman

 

[blakeh1]

Looking good

Good choice for the armor