Another Bwing repaint

By LukesFather, in X-Wing

The other day I some how got sucked into watching the begining of Lost in Space, the movie. I know, my life must rock. Anyhow, in the beginning they have the Bubble Fighters that kinda act like Bwings just maybe built different. These fighters had a classic fighter look to them, and by that I mean they had the iconic tiger/shark teeth. I got to thinking, am I good enough to pull this off on a Bwing. So I drew my plans, got another Bwing. And then mixed my paints.

Now the ww2 Flying Tigers had an animal to represent them, and I figured the Star Wars version would need to have some animal to match that. I remembered in SW 2 that the tiger thing that attacked Padame would fit, did some searching and found out its name is a Nexu. So looked at what I could find of that and made due.

First I scrapped off the orange circles from the bwing, ( ina previous post of repaints I stated I hate them, and for no real reason other then I don't like it). These "newer" Bwings seemed to be a little less on the basecoat as I did see I was getting plastic before to long, and on my others they took alot more shaving down to get too.

So I started with the mouth, which is actually a couple coats, as my first set of teeth was no good, so I just painted over it and started new. Topped it off with some stripping and some dots, and finished (I think)

ANd Now I present the newest ship in my fleet. It will be my named pilot or Blue 1 to the Blues I have already.

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Your other B-Wings seems better/cleaner painted though your idea with the animal/shark mouth is not bad att all. Maybe I should steal it for my own B-Wings? :P

Edited by MacrossVF1

I think its the lighting somewhat, the others where much brighter, in person you dont see all the little things

Yeah camera flash is pretty unforgiving to miniature painting, but it is awesome for seeing where you can improve things.

Really cool ship! Especially in the first shot, those grinning theeth from under that wing are positioned perfectly!

It seems a little odd to me having the teeth on the thin fin instead of the beefier cockpit, but still a cool idea.