Since I plan to paint more things, I will start my own thread here. I'm including my first attempt, an IG-2000, since the double-droid list screams for at least one of the two ships to be customized, if only so that you and your opponent can tell them apart.

I have been painting minis off-and-on for over a decade, but this is my first vehicle (the rest have all been figures and monsters). Hopefully, my experience translates a bit to starships.

I will have to try the photos again; they looked properly focused in the viewscreen of the camera, but once uploaded, they were somewhat blurry.

Feedback is welcome!

Hot Rod Aggressor? I kinda like it, and while I think the transition from red to yellow could be smoother, I know how difficult that is to get correct unless you have an airbrush.

Thanks! An airbrush is definitely on my list of future purchases. I'd like to get a lot of new paint, too, as most of mine is very old and the screw-top lids have been killing it. That yellow was barely usable.

In my opinion yellow is almost never useable. The easiest way to paint yellow is generally not to paint yellow but rather use a bright brown/yellowish colour. By the way, what paints are you using? I got curious since you mentioned screw tops.

Reaper Pro Paints from like 2005. I had a bit of Citadel from that era, too, and lost most of it to the screw tops. I've replaced the most important colors that died (e.g., flat black) with some newer flip-top Citadel from my FLGS.

I use foundry paint.

Two very good reasons, actually three very good reasons for this... no wait four!

1. They are cheap for the volume you get

2. They are the same manufacturer as 80s citadel so strong pigments

3 . Huge range, over 180 colours

4. (most importantly) each colour comes in three gradiants (shade, main tone, highlight) so you can go from yellow to red very very smoothly by going from 'yellow highlight' to red shade'.

You might also find that a yellow glaze will smooth the transition. If i ever have highlights that are too sharp i find a glaze unifies it a little. I almost *always* use this on yellows and reds to stop highlighted red looking pink or orange and to stop yellow looking off white.

I just touched up my YT-2400, with the obvious change: engine glow. Also, I magnetized the cannons. I touched up the windows a bit, too, but you can't see that in these pictures.

I took the pictures in front of a painting my grandmother made for me.

http://i.imgur.com/cxZdjA6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FmZoPau.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KTWjOQd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YqpmPuN.jpg

Here is what I am working on currently. As you can see, I have just started the yellow layer. This is my first serious attempt at free-handing more than a tiny part of a miniature, and I have been learning a lot.