Starviper Express

By stuffedskullcat, in X-Wing

Hi all, finished some repaints I was pleased with enough to share. Lately I've been trying a list of three PS1 Starviper Enforcers, and two PS1 Binayre Z-95s, and have been having quite a bit of fun with it.

For the 'bent' Starviper, I did just slowly bend the wings back, though stress to the plastic was visible, and in the end one of the bottom wings broke and I ended up gluing it back onto the figure and post. I'm going to see how well it holds, but I have a feeling the best course of action would be to cut the wings off altogether and pin them on.

The 'rusty' Z is an older repaint of mine, but the Binayre is new. The checkering is pretty sloppy, but gets the point across in you're not looking at it too closely.

Enjoy, and thanks to everyone here for the constant inspiration and ideas!

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Both Zs look great, thanks for sharing!

I love the checkering on the Z. Gives me some inspiration for my own pirates!

Also really like that 100pt squad you built. You should post some in the Battle Reports section if you have some good results to share.

Nice job. I'm sure the checkering looks good in person. We're always more critical of our own work.

As for bending the wings... I don't see many people doing this but you can heat up the plastic with a blow dryer. it'll bend more easily. Depending on the strength of the plastic it sometimes will even cool in the desired place and hold really well.