Hey guys,

Inspired by Rodent Master mind I wrote a blog article on how to paint the small imperal logo and how I like to paint the blood stripes.

I could only find a tutorial by Rodent how to paint the larger Imperial logo on the full wing of the TIE-Fighter. The small logo displayed on the wing on one of his fighters caught my attention... I had to experiment a couple of times to get it right.

I hope some of you can benefit from my experiments.

If you like this article please visit my blog: http://airbrushandanalog.blogspot.nl/

You will need only one color of paint. This could be white, off-white or a very light grey. Whatever you like the most or what fits your paint scheme.

I began with the outer circle. This will mark the full location and size. I used the plastic rod to protect your brushes to "stamp" the location and used a brush to get a nice and even outer ring.

Outer ring stamped and corrected

When your satisfied with the outer ring, paint two small lines. One at the top and one at the bottom. Make sure these are pointing towards the top and bottom of your ship. After that, while trying to keep the Space between them as even as possible, add four more lines, bringing the total to six.

Divided the circle with small lines

Connect the lines inside the ring by painting a hexagon.

It's like connect the dots

At the corners of the hexagon, paint a square where the corner of the hexagon meets the line connecting it to the outer circle. I filled in the rest of the hexagon except for a small black dot in the middle.

Already starting to look like we are getting there!

Now draw small black lines from the black dot. You can make these lines a bit triangular shaped if you like, but at this scale lines look good enough in my opinion.

Imperial logo is done!

So on with the blood stripes. This is a visual introduced with the imperial aces. If I understood correctly imperial pilots are allowed to display these if they get ten kills. This means it is a nice way to decorate named pilots or veteran squadron leaders.

I started by masking the location of where I want to paint the stripes. Then, continuering with the weathered look, I choose to sponge on the paint.

Tamiya Masking tape applied

For this, I tore of a piece of blister sponge, dipped it into my red paint, rubbed off the excess paint on a paper towel and applied it to the miniature. The masking prevents the paint from hitting spots I don't want to to get on.

Blister sponge
I mixed up a semi-dark red for the blood stripe

Remove the masking tape and apply a thin layer of black wash.

Final, finished result

Your done now! You could touch some spots up with black, white or red but that's basically how you paint the logo and the blood stripes. Now if you weathered your ship a little (I did!) you can use some black and orangey - brown washes or pigments to give the logo and the stripe the same treatment.

Hi, thank you for sharing. I like it a lot.

What die you exactly usw for wrathering the Tie?

Best wishes to you

Well that was certainly an innovative way of getting a circle. Gotta use that one myself! I fail to see why you use a sponge to paint the red however. It just feels unnecessary.

Sponge or a 'dampbrush' should give you the same effect, stops you flooding an area and makes it look more '3d'in that scale IMO

Very good work, nice technique for the cog.

I did pretty much the same when i bloodstriped my regular int after i got imp aces.

Masked it up and used a 'dampbrush' to drag over the model a few times with madder red.

at the time i could tell mine from the original, i cant anymore.

Hey guys,

Inspired by Rodent Master mind I wrote a blog article on how to paint the small imperal logo and how I like to paint the blood stripes.

I could only find a tutorial by Rodent how to paint the larger Imperial logo on the full wing of the TIE-Fighter. The small logo displayed on the wing on one of his fighters caught my attention... I had to experiment a couple of times to get it right.

I hope some of you can benefit from my experiments.

If you like this article please visit my blog: http://airbrushandanalog.blogspot.nl/

You will need only one color of paint. This could be white, off-white or a very light grey. Whatever you like the most or what fits your paint scheme.

I began with the outer circle. This will mark the full location and size. I used the plastic rod to protect your brushes to "stamp" the location and used a brush to get a nice and even outer ring.

Outer ring stamped and corrected

When your satisfied with the outer ring, paint two small lines. One at the top and one at the bottom. Make sure these are pointing towards the top and bottom of your ship. After that, while trying to keep the Space between them as even as possible, add four more lines, bringing the total to six.

Divided the circle with small lines

Connect the lines inside the ring by painting a hexagon.

It's like connect the dots

At the corners of the hexagon, paint a square where the corner of the hexagon meets the line connecting it to the outer circle. I filled in the rest of the hexagon except for a small black dot in the middle.

Already starting to look like we are getting there!

Now draw small black lines from the black dot. You can make these lines a bit triangular shaped if you like, but at this scale lines look good enough in my opinion.

Imperial logo is done!

So on with the blood stripes. This is a visual introduced with the imperial aces. If I understood correctly imperial pilots are allowed to display these if they get ten kills. This means it is a nice way to decorate named pilots or veteran squadron leaders.

I started by masking the location of where I want to paint the stripes. Then, continuering with the weathered look, I choose to sponge on the paint.

Tamiya Masking tape applied

For this, I tore of a piece of blister sponge, dipped it into my red paint, rubbed off the excess paint on a paper towel and applied it to the miniature. The masking prevents the paint from hitting spots I don't want to to get on.

Blister sponge

I mixed up a semi-dark red for the blood stripe

Remove the masking tape and apply a thin layer of black wash.

Final, finished result

Your done now! You could touch some spots up with black, white or red but that's basically how you paint the logo and the blood stripes. Now if you weathered your ship a little (I did!) you can use some black and orangey - brown washes or pigments to give the logo and the stripe the same treatment.

Hey! You got the Bloodstripes just right!

But yeah, that's an AWESOME paintjob. Well done dude!

Looks awesome!

Love it! Great idea using the tube to paint a circle, and the foam/sponge seems to work well too. I found it hard to use a brush on the solar panel ridges so I'll try your solution next time.

Thank you. Two great tips.

I also though bout 'kill markers' for my named pilots ...

... I mean REAL kill markers: if Backstabber scored a kill in a match, he gets another marker!

but im not sure how they would look like

Thanks for the tutorial/tips ... I was thinking of adding some "command" stripes to two of the each my T/Bs and T/Ds, and I was wondering what the best method would be. This helped a lot.
(maybe I'll show of the pictures here)

Thanks everybody for the kind comments!

Hi, thank you for sharing. I like it a lot.
What die you exactly usw for wrathering the Tie?
Best wishes to you

I used a mix of sepia and brown washes and rust colored pigments. I aplied the pigments dry, then brushed them out and then added some water to wash them into the crevices. I'd imagined these while made in bulk to be maintained enough to not look all out rusty.

Thanks for the tutorial/tips ... I was thinking of adding some "command" stripes to two of the each my T/Bs and T/Ds, and I was wondering what the best method would be. This helped a lot.
(maybe I'll show of the pictures here)

I'd love to see pictures!

I also though bout 'kill markers' for my named pilots ...

... I mean REAL kill markers: if Backstabber scored a kill in a match, he gets another marker!

but im not sure how they would look like

I thought about this and i started with "maybe ill do blood stripes for every 10 kills" but once you got to a certain point you would just be stuck. I also opted for tally marks but that would just look hugely out of scale on 1:270

I like it!

Nice article.

i love the job, thanks for share us, greettings.

Thanks for all the great comments. I assume making more tutorials on different kind of stripes would be boring right? Any other marks I could do tutorials on?

Any other faction or sub-faction markings (Rebels, Black Sun, etc) would be great - I'm sure they will come in handy when adding detail to the new ships.

Thanks for sharing the tutorial, too! I like the way that this method produces symbols at the same size on each ship - any method using freehand circles tends to vary too much in size for me.

I would not mind seeing a Scum Hwk-290 too!

black sun would be a little bigger or you need to use a smaller circle because most of the details are on the outside of the circle. or am i looking at a wrong logo?

Thank you for making something which is almost unattainable look SO simple!!! LOL

Thx for sharing! Great tutorial.