First up, scum Z95 special characters. I've avoided 'griming' these as they look quite good 'clean', which is ironic for 'scum'

next up an A wing flight, all i've done here is repaint some panels so i dont have four ships with exactly the same repairs!

Tansaari Point veterans flight led by serissu. These were foundry paints 'arctic grey' with either wine stain red for serissue or 'orange' for the veterans as second colour. I really hate the M3a stock colour scheme and i've actually gamed a lot with these since repainting them!

And a cloaking Phantom. Not my best work, done quickly as a test tbh but it was good enough to stand.

Some more to follow later

Scum/Pirate/Black Sun Corvette

Some 'touched up' Ywings. I personally felt the FFG scheme/factory paint made them look a bit flat and washed out so i repainted the cockpit and nacelle ends with a more striking light grey/dark yellow scheme and painted the roof lasers black. I think it makes them look a bit chunkier.

Rebel HWK. I painted this as the support ship for my factory stock Z95s so tried to match the colours. I also moved the laser to the top as i just wanted it to look different from the 'mouldy crow'

I've since painted the z95 it supports to have the same deep yellow 'beak' on the end

Kath Scarlet's Firespray repainted for my wife who used to fly her ship a lot. I personally think most people paint the grey too light and almost white but in the card art and other colour images it looks deeper and i think its correct here. White and red makes it look too rebel and this scheme makes it fit in better with scum or imperials.

The engine glow on my boba fett firespray and my shuttle

And lastly for now a very light touch up to a rebel transport to make it a bit less boring and unify its colour with my other rebels.

Gadge, you really do some nice work!

Edited for spelling, again.

As a prospective painter, I have questions:

(1) How did you create the engine glow effect?

(2) How do you keep the nice gloss/reflective finish on ships' canopies?

(3) What reference images did you use for N'dru and Kath? More generally, how many reference images do you look for before you start painting something in a particular color scheme?

where's your spiderman-xwing?

Just kidding!

Your cloaking phantom looks awesome! All your ships look good, but that one's my fave.

I'm with you on Kath's colour scheme, that matches the grey of the Binayre pirates, as it should!

Hi guys, thanks for the kind words.

To answer the questions.

1. The engine after glow is one of two methods. On the blue ones i tend to paint the socket of the engine sky blue and then add the white while its still wet so it blends in. With the orange ones i paint them very light yellow and then add orange ink.

2. I mask canopies with blu tak when i can, if i have to go over them i paint them foundry black then gloss varnish it.

3. I try and use card art for my reference. I'll also google image search. I normally want at least two images to go off.