Paintings and such...not on velvet...and not of the king.

By Velvetelvis, in X-Wing Painting and Modification

Yea, I'd vote for the Vaksai if you do a Venkman/Winston/Egon/Stantz. They look more like the hearse than an Xwing does :P

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So...I'm making the 4 ghosts from pacman. Should i......paint the panels black? Do something with the windows?

I can't decide if these should be cartoony with googly eyes or just spaceships in bright colors.

Whatever happens, I will also leave googly eye tokens on the mat when they die. ( whether or not I set dials for the eyes to return to my starting zone will depend on how much bourbon is in my body).

What's yalls thoughts?

At minimum, I feel they need a wash.

Give them a wash, maybe a highlight. Do the cockpit panels white with the windows black (to be the eyes) and then make sure you write Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde on the bases.

Sidenote....my missing pictures have returned. I wonder if photobucket decided to stop being stupid.

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Work in progress so far. At least I made up my mind on what to do with eyes.

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So...if anyone has a double falcon list...both of them yellow...one with a red ribbon... let's rumble.

On 10/8/2018 at 1:05 PM, Velvetelvis said:

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So...I'm making the 4 ghosts from pacman. Should i......paint the panels black? Do something with the windows?

I can't decide if these should be cartoony with googly eyes or just spaceships in bright colors.

Whatever happens, I will also leave googly eye tokens on the mat when they die. ( whether or not I set dials for the eyes to return to my starting zone will depend on how much bourbon is in my body).

What's yalls thoughts?

And here I was going to call them the Phantom Rangers.

I'm making a punishest

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Do we prefer with or without toothpaste cap comedically large engine cone thingy?

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I think it would need the spot where the big thruster is for a docking clamp. Wow that is allot of ordinance capacity. Planning on hunting dreadnaughts?

I got this far with it....looked at it...laughed at how dumb it is..dropped it...and broke the little antenna off the 'advanced sensor' already.

Still needs 2 more pods .

12 hours ago, Velvetelvis said:

I'm making a punishest

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Do we prefer with or without toothpaste cap comedically large engine cone thingy?

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Include comedically large engine cone, but flip it round the other way so you can't see the screw threads.

Smeared some color on this guy. I kind of want to put bomber wings on it to really emphasize the bulk.

Like a bodybuilder wearing a tiny shirt.

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1 hour ago, Velvetelvis said:

Smeared some color on this guy. I kind of want to put bomber wings on it to really emphasize the bulk.

Like a bodybuilder wearing a tiny shirt.

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I feel like a mouse looking at the dangerous end of a volley gun...

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2 minutes ago, Velvetelvis said:

Looks really nice. Not what you were going for obviously, but it also looks like a Star Craft Mustalisk.

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ohhh man!!

I almost went red and black too. Ugh. It's funny that it's close to a starcraft thing. I dont play starcraft and I also use an alt art card for the ship that accidentally has starcraft art.

Guri to me.....

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I didn't know this was a starcraft thing when I made the card out of it.

Sigh...paint is barely dry and I want to redo the while thing now. :D

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Just now, Velvetelvis said:

ohhh man!!

I almost went red and black too. Ugh. It's funny that it's close to a starcraft thing. I dont play starcraft and I also use an alt art card for the ship that accidentally has starcraft art.

Guri to me.....

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I didn't know this was a starcraft thing when I made the card out of it.

I hope you aren't stressing on it. Your StarViper captures what you were going for, the swooping hawk, beautifully. I just noticed the similarity. I don't really see the resemblance to Guri. Ya it's a droid/robot but Guri was not droid like in her appearance in any way. Made doing her job as an assassin allot easier.

StarCraft resemblances aside, do you have a name for that thing? Which is beautiful, by the way.

Nah. It's an idea I had a couple months ago that sat on a back burner until I had enough donor parts. The whole thing is just starviper pieces and tiny pieces scraps of plastic and to cover the holes where I removed guns and pegs.

My original plan was like an angel of death or skeletal bird. But then I was messing around with the body pieces and figured they connect nicely and curve so I made all the gun barrels to look like the pistons that articulate the body sections.

While I was deciding on wing placement I felt it wad turning I to more of a dragon looking thing.

Then I made a snap decision to paint in blues because I dont like blue and wanted to go outside my comfort zone.

For now I consider it playable. I've made a couple color adjustments already ,nothing major. And it might get some spikey antenna pieces in the future.

I was able to get some games in with it and despite its height it plays well and isn't too obnoxious on the table. It's about as wide as a k wing and we made those work back when they were viable ;)

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13 hours ago, Velvetelvis said:

So this is a good start, but please for the love of god, add some K-Wing Lower wings with the hardpoints

Ooohhh! That's a good call. It has the original wing guns but yeah the k wing has MOAR

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Now this is pod racing

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