I haven't painted anything in a LONG time. Never miniatures, only models, but I figured I would start with something fairly easy.

Engine glow.

Very nice glow jobs. I especially like the Y-Wings.

These look nice. One of the best ways to make the model look more dynamic.

They look great! It's amazing how such a small thing can make them look so much more dynamic. What colors / paints did you use? I need to do the same to my ships.

They look great! It's amazing how such a small thing can make them look so much more dynamic. What colors / paints did you use? I need to do the same to my ships.

Thanks!

I use Vallejo paints. They all started with a few coats of Dead White from the Game Color line. The blue is Electric Blue from the same line, the rest are fluorescents from their Model Color line. Magenta, yellow and orange.

Very well done mate. LOVE the Y-Wings, top notch job on all tho. For "not painting in a while" you certainly knocked off the rust rather quickly. Eager to see more from you man, keep up the awesome work!

Very well done mate. LOVE the Y-Wings, top notch job on all tho. For "not painting in a while" you certainly knocked off the rust rather quickly. Eager to see more from you man, keep up the awesome work!

Thank you! I had a ton of fun painting them.

I was very concerned about the large ships, as I really wanted to get an airbrush to do a proper fade, but I was too impatient and decided to play around with blending with cotton swabs and eventually moving to thinning the paint with varying amounts of water. Basically creating a wash for each glow color.

My god! The B-Wings engine glow is great!

Thanks so much!

Here shortly I'll be painting all my TIEs to match the lighter grey of the TIE Adv and TIE Fighter, a la TIE Fighter for PC.

Great work.

ever place them under a black light??

Very well done mate. LOVE the Y-Wings, top notch job on all tho. For "not painting in a while" you certainly knocked off the rust rather quickly. Eager to see more from you man, keep up the awesome work!

Thank you! I had a ton of fun painting them.

I was very concerned about the large ships, as I really wanted to get an airbrush to do a proper fade, but I was too impatient and decided to play around with blending with cotton swabs and eventually moving to thinning the paint with varying amounts of water. Basically creating a wash for each glow color.

Ah, I wondered how you did that - if an airbrush was needed or not.

Yeah, they look really amazing.

So you basically just did a couple passes of thinned paint? Widest spread the thinnest, slightly thicker for a smaller ring, etc?

How many passes did it take?

ever place them under a black light??

That's my intention. I'm going to build a game table with black lights built into the walls!

Very well done mate. LOVE the Y-Wings, top notch job on all tho. For "not painting in a while" you certainly knocked off the rust rather quickly. Eager to see more from you man, keep up the awesome work!

Thank you! I had a ton of fun painting them.

I was very concerned about the large ships, as I really wanted to get an airbrush to do a proper fade, but I was too impatient and decided to play around with blending with cotton swabs and eventually moving to thinning the paint with varying amounts of water. Basically creating a wash for each glow color.

Ah, I wondered how you did that - if an airbrush was needed or not.

Yeah, they look really amazing.

So you basically just did a couple passes of thinned paint? Widest spread the thinnest, slightly thicker for a smaller ring, etc?

How many passes did it take?

Thank you!

And yes, exactly. It took probably 4-5 passes. In retrospect I probably should have done one more super thin pass on the Lambda, but I'm happy with it.

I've been wanting to do this since I first got into the game. These are the first, and I'll be turning all of my TIEs into these beauties.

Fans of TIE Fighter for PC should recognize what's going on here...