Hi guys,

I thought I’d throw a post up by way of introduction!

My name is Jon, for a long time I’ve been heavily into Warhammer Fantasy, particularly the painting and modelling aspect of it.

I’ve been aware of the X-Wing Miniatures Game for around 12 months now and have avoided it at all costs in an attempt to avoid getting hooked. Unfortunately someone happened to show me the pictures of RodentMastermind’s work and I couldn’t resist any longer.

A friend of mine offered to give me an intro game, which was awesome, after which she said she was going on holiday for two weeks and offered to lend me her whole X-Wing collection while she was away!

10+ games later…. I’m hopelessly addicted!

So far I’ve purchased the Core Set, an extra X-Wing, a TIE: Advanced and a TIE: Defender.

In the mean time- here are some WIP repaints (again, totally inspired by Rodent Mastermind!)

I’ve also been working on some Asteroids, using Instamould to recast sections of some ships.

I have plans to paint up a Republic Clone Fighter Squadron using alternate minis, simply using the Rebel cards for the rules etc.

I managed to pick up these alternate Arc-170s to count as X-Wings proxys, and V-Wings to count as A-Wing proxys.

I've also been working on my transportation method. This is simply a sheet of galvanised steel in the bottom of a stackable storage box. The compartment tray has magnets set into it, so it can be lifted out and placed on the table for easy access to tokens during games.

I also picked up a Revell Venator-class Star Destroyer on eBay. The plan is to paint it as a brusied and battered old battleship from the Clone Wars. That way I can use it in a few ways:

-as a wreckage for terrain to make the table look pretty

-as an objective, as if the Rebels were trying to activate an old abandoned battleship to serve in the War. I plan to have an insert for the base which has specific ship component areas (eg/ engines, bridge, bow, sheild generator, etc) so I can create missions to destroy each section of the ship.

-as an actual ship in massive games, with custom rules, to run alongside my Republic clone fighter squadron!

All it took was to knock up a quick base from brass rod and thick plasticard!

Let me know what you think

great work on the ships and asteroids. if I had a better hand I could try some of those TIEs with the Imp symbol on them. I'll have to stick with decals I think lol.

Welcome to the boards, and good hunting.

Another quick update...

In the last couple of days I finished the first of my modified flight stands. I decided that I wanted to use brass rod for my stands- it's thinner, and less noticeable, I have more control over the length, and its stronger. I also don't have to worry about losing the pegs etc.

The mod was pretty simple. I filled the original hole in the base with greenstuff, and made sure I trimmed away any excess so that the number tokens still fitted into the slots. Once it was fully cured, I could drill a hole and add my brass rod.

The mechanis, for attaching the ships is very simple. The rod itself is 2mm brass rod. Over the top I slipped a small sleeve cut from 3mm brass tube. This fits perfectly over the 2mm rod, and allows a 2mm rare earth (neodymium) magnet to be set into the top. Under the ship itself I glued another magnet. Finally, a small pin was added to the back of each stand, and a slightly larger (than the pin) hole was drilled behind the magnet in each ship. This pin prevents the ship spinning on the magnet and facing the wrong way on it's base!

As you can see, once they are all sprayed black (and the edges of the ship tokens have been coloured black with a Sharpie) they look pretty slick- I'm extremely happy with the results.

What do you think?

great work on the ships and asteroids. if I had a better hand I could try some of those TIEs with the Imp symbol on them. I'll have to stick with decals I think lol.

Welcome to the boards, and good hunting.

Cheers bud!

Nah those Imp symbols are easy, honest. Best of all if you don't get it perfect you can hide the imperfections with some heavy weathering/chips applied with a sponge.

RodentMastermind did a guide on his blog, but I'm planning to do a step by step of my own technique (slightly different, and easier IMO) soon.

Excellent! Those V-Wings and Arc-170's appear to be in-scale as well. Where did you get them?

Looking forward to seeing progress on that big beastie!

Nice work, and welcome to the Parlor.

Hi all,

Last Friday I made the trip down to Stockport's North West Gaming Centre, home of Element Games. Element were running their inaugural X-Wing tournament, "It's a Trap!".

Unfortunately in my extreme excitement I forgot to take any photos during the event, but needless to say I had three fantastic games, and managed to win 2nd Place overall!

I also managed to win the "Best Painted Squad" award, which came down to a close decision between my squad and a beautifully painted Royal Guard themed Interceptor Squad.

The event went extremely smoothly, with some great little awards and freebies, and Element Games are planning to make these events a monthly occurrence. I'll certainly be there for every one I can make, so hopefully see you there sometime in the future! Tickets are already available for their next event on the evening of Friday 29th August, http://elementgames.co.uk/event-tickets/its-a-trap-x-wing-tournament-from-element-games

Here's all the swag I managed to come home with! Event exclusive Academy TIE and Biggs cards, FFG acrylic bomb tokens, limited edition card box, Slave I and a Z-95 Headhunter! I was a rather happy boy in the car home.

Here's some photos of my finished squad for the event:

I wasted no time in getting paint onto Fett as fast as possible. Like many people he's my favourite character from Star Wars- despite being pretty **** incompetent when it comes to fighting blind people, he's still an absolute badass.

I did as much research as I could into colour schemes for the Slave I during the Rebellion Era- unfortunately the FFG artwork is pretty small and dark so it's hard to get a good idea of colours from that. Hopefully I got it pretty close, I'm interested to know your thoughts!

I used a pretty specialist weathering technique on the model, where you airbrush the model with a base colour (in the case of the red areas, the basecoat was cream), seal with matt varnish, coat with hairspray (yes, hairspray!), airbrush with the top colour (in the case of the red areas, red!), then using a damp toothbrush you can scrub away the layer of hairspray to provide the really cool weathering effect and bring the cream out from underneath. The way the hairpray dissolves creates the kind of "chipped" appearance which is exactly what you want. The final stage is to seal with matt varnish again.

My Rebels have been feeling severely left out lately, and as such I thought I'd better get some paint on a couple of them too.

First up is an Arc-170. As I've said previously I'm hoping to use these as X-Wing proxies, using all the official cards, dials and bases. Obviously it really depends on whether the UK independent scene allows such things- currently the official FFG rules forbid it (and rightly so!).

They may unfortunately be relegated to casual play

I also did some work on the first of my X-Wings. It came out quite pale, but I based the colour scheme on pictures from the movies and FFG artwork so it is pretty close to accurate. Perhaps it only looks so pale standing next to the original FFG paintjob. Interested to hear thoughts?!

I actually like your paler white since it does seem pretty darn close to the movie colours. Beautiful job!

Beautiful work. I look forward to your blog posts on how you do all these excellent paint jobs, if only I can mangle some of my own ships in the process.

Awesome painting. Have a look at mine: http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/92926-ice-squadron-custom-painted-rebel-ships/ and http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/110304-custom-painted-z-95-headhunter-and-e-wing/

Also, I like the High Elf standard bearer in tha back of the first image!

Mine also came out paler than FFG's. I feel that they used a base color too beige and the heavy black washes do not help.

The ffg imperial crafts look much better than the rebel ones.

Good job!

It is very nice to see your fine work!

We need a freaking modeling sub forum here already so that these post can be seen together.

They get lost here in the mix.

I have been bookmarking them in a file with post from guys like us that love the hobby side of X-Wing.

It is very nice to see your fine work!

We need a freaking modeling sub forum here already so that these post can be seen together.

They get lost here in the mix.

I have been bookmarking them in a file with post from guys like us that love the hobby side of X-Wing.

I've started a thread to try and get the mods attention- drop a post in there if you support it. http://community.fantasyflightgames.com/index.php?/topic/112076-painting-and-modelling-sub-forum/

great work on the ships and asteroids. if I had a better hand I could try some of those TIEs with the Imp symbol on them. I'll have to stick with decals I think lol.

Welcome to the boards, and good hunting.

Cheers bud!

Nah those Imp symbols are easy, honest. Best of all if you don't get it perfect you can hide the imperfections with some heavy weathering/chips applied with a sponge.

RodentMastermind did a guide on his blog, but I'm planning to do a step by step of my own technique (slightly different, and easier IMO) soon.

cool, I'd be willing to ship you a TIE (or advanced) for the step by step.. lol... I would love one but just cant seem to get it right.. maybe I'm not determined enough or motivated enough.. lol...

I look forward to seeing the write up..

Cheer mate

These are ridiculous. Especially that TIE Defender. Gorgeous.

Would love to see what paints/techniques you used on your X-Wing, I've been wanting to do some repaints of my own...

These are ridiculous. Especially that TIE Defender. Gorgeous.

Would love to see what paints/techniques you used on your X-Wing, I've been wanting to do some repaints of my own...

Thanks,

The colours used are pretty simple really. All my shades are mixed manually.

The TIEs are all based with Vallejo Light bluegrey, mixed with black. GW Nuln Oil wash. Highlighted by mixing more bluegrey. The logos are painted with Vallejo Ivory. The red is GW khorne red and evil suns.

The X-Wing is similar- Vallejo offwhite mixed with black for a basecoat. GW Agrax wash. Highlighted by mixing offwhite.

The Arc-170 is based with Vallejo Ivory, washed Agrax. Highlighted Ivory. Easy!

The weathering is achieved by sponging on a darker version of the respective basecoat.

Hope that helps!

Vallejo paints are pretty awesome, that's what I have been using as well...

Some of my repaints have been pretty easy, and I use some decal paper to do what I cant paint... overall, I'm happy with mine. I do have mad respect for yourself and the Rodent Mastermind for doing the imp symbols on the TIE fighters.. those really look awesome.

Edit: Also, I just realized what you did on the advanced.. very nice, I thought of doing something like that myself, just .. need to do it in a decal I think.. lol

My insatiable obsession with X-Wing is still going strong- unfortunately it feels like everyone locally is fed up of playing X-Wing with me so I haven't played a proper game in ages! Sad panda.

In the mean time, I've been busy at the painting desk again- this time finishing off my Asteroids.

I do eventually intent to paint the bases with some stars etc- but it depends what kind of gamaing mat/board I end up getting so I'm holding fire for now. They I'm still happy with how they look even in plain black.

Let me know what you think!

Looking good buddie.

Playing at a game store sucks anyhow...I much rather be in the comfort of my parlor, where stupid people can't go.

Seeing that beautiful TIE in the rubble of that asteroid... brings tears to my eyes.. lol...

I am gonna make some decals and see if I can get a good look/effect with them. Thinking Red imp symbols might be fun... if it works, I'll see how it works on the Advanced...

Seeing that beautiful TIE in the rubble of that asteroid... brings tears to my eyes.. lol...

I am gonna make some decals and see if I can get a good look/effect with them. Thinking Red imp symbols might be fun... if it works, I'll see how it works on the Advanced...

Haha, of course its not a real FFG model, just made a greenstuff pressmould of the wing and body.

It did make me chuckle doing that painstaking freehand on an ASTEROID though haha. Especially since I only have 2 TIEs painted so far!

I had figured (read hoped.. lol) that it was a molded model.. and that detailed wing still looks awesome.. I just got my decal for the red experiment ready, just need to let the overcoat dry so I can cut it into wedges to place onto the wing...

If I only had a more years of painting experiance.. lol... I never got into warhammer, so I haven't had to perfect my paint skills.. I do ok though, but decals might be my saving grace on these.. will post up pictures if it turns out well..

Have a Firespray I finally did.. decided to go greys instead of the shuttle white.. and a couple imp symbol decals on it for grins... after finishing touches I will get that up as well.. did running lights as well but noticed a bit on the outside of the sides that worked well for those port and starboard lights... I think they look good...

posted my firespray just now.. maybe some people like it.. lol.. I like it, I think it looks pretty cool.. lol

My Rebels have been feeling severely left out lately, and as such I thought I'd better get some paint on a couple of them too.

First up is an Arc-170. As I've said previously I'm hoping to use these as X-Wing proxies, using all the official cards, dials and bases. Obviously it really depends on whether the UK independent scene allows such things- currently the official FFG rules forbid it (and rightly so!).

They may unfortunately be relegated to casual play

I also did some work on the first of my X-Wings. It came out quite pale, but I based the colour scheme on pictures from the movies and FFG artwork so it is pretty close to accurate. Perhaps it only looks so pale standing next to the original FFG paintjob. Interested to hear thoughts?!

I'm totally loving your arc proxies, now with Scum and Villainy coming out I'm going to use mine as a Private fleet .