Another day, another repaint it seems. This is a follow up to my previous set of repaints, the Yakuza Z-95 Headhunters. The Z-95s was completed so quickly that I had more than enough time to paint another ship and this time the commissioner wanted a Y-wing which I henceforth name the 'Yak-Wing'.

Due to the lack of available free space on Y-wings, I couldn't put any big complicated designs on it. Instead the commissioner came up with the idea of using the Rising sun flag as a motif which I painted on the nose. I also took the opportunity to paint the astromech as the salvaged mech 'Genius'. Painting eyes on Warhammer models is a bloody walk in the park compared to painting astromechs. I also tried OSL, object source lightning, to try and make it look like the engine glow reflects off nearby surfaces. Considering it's my first serious attempt at it I suppose it came out decent enough. In any case, enjoy!

Everything you do is wonderful.

The "Nose art" style of individual ships is really bringing a sense of character and theme to the game. That lived in universe feel is alive in your paint jobs.

What did you do to the engine nacelles, they look different from the unpainted Y wing.. it looks great. Really enjoy and appreciate your work, I am quite envious.. lol

Stunning as usual. Two thumbs up!

What did you do to the engine nacelles, they look different from the unpainted Y wing.. it looks great. Really enjoy and appreciate your work, I am quite envious.. lol

Yes they do look quite different. I'm fairly certain this is due to the heavy amount of shading/wash that can be found on a normal Y-wing. I like the Y-wing sculpt but its factory paintjob is probably the worst of all X-wing models and quite frankly just makes it look bad and lacklustre.

If it's the Yak Wing, does that mean it's for him:

Now that's something I had to look up with Google. As for your question, maybe.