My third painted ship...

Star wars X wing custom painted miniatures. Painted by me by Luke Kowand , on Flickr

Star wars X wing custom painted miniatures. Painted by me by Luke Kowand , on Flickr

Started using some new to me techniques. Before it was just dip i the can and paint. I tried using some thinning, mixing, and shading techniques here.

Great!

Sweet! Love the X Wing Rogue Squadron books!

instead of starting a new topic, I'm going to add to this one with my repaints.

Did an E-Wing last night. I didn't really go into this with a reformulated plan, but I knew I wanted to work with red for the markings but just change them up a bit.

Star wars Xwing minatures game: custom painted Ewing by Luke Kowand , on Flickr

Star wars Xwing minatures game: custom painted Ewing by Luke Kowand , on Flickr

Tried some new techniques on this one, and I think I need to do more angled shots of it to showcase different things. I also did the dial.

Using Citadel paints.

Base coat is a mix of Ceramite White, Mechanicus Grey, and a small brushfull of Kantor Blue.

After applying the basecoat I did a wash with Nuln oil to fill in the details a bit.

The red trim is a combo of Mephestion Red with Fire Dragon Bright (orange), and a bit of Rhinox hide. I wanted a bit more orange tone to my red with a darker base, but didn't want to take the red out of it by using black. I was pretty happy with it.

I did the guns and parts of the engine with Ruefang Silver and a touch of Addon Black.

The engine exhaust was pure Addon black. then I dry brushed some Kantor Blue over it.

The inlets are Caledor Sky (pure)

I also used my ruefang silver/addon black as a dry brush over the greblings above the wing.

I took some of the Fire Dragon Bright, darkened it up with some Rhinox hide and dry brushed it over the rear vents on the fuselage. The idea here was to give the impression it's hot exhaust that heated up the metal. Not happy with it in that respect, so I'll probably change that later.

Finally I went over everything with a healthy dose of nuln oil... and I mean a lot of it.

I then painted the cockpit with pure Addon Black and gave it some nuln oil before it dried. So far my best cockpit yet I think.

I then used base of the Fire Dragon Bright to edge the red trim on the nose. I also dry brushed some over the venting on the sides in front of the wing.

I plan to do a few more fighters in this scheme as I really like the results.

Thanks for viewing!

Wow...considering there's no metallics in there, it looks really...metallic'y

...that is just the perfect shade of grey to offset the red...a simple scheme [i know a lot of work went into it, don't get me wrong], but really effective - something I've said on here before, but another example of 'less is more'

EDIT: I really liked that grey, so went looking at Mechanicus, and found a great Citadel -> Vallejo conversion guide, so thanks for making me investigate

Wow...considering there's no metallics in there, it looks really...metallic'y

...that is just the perfect shade of grey to offset the red...a simple scheme [i know a lot of work went into it, don't get me wrong], but really effective - something I've said on here before, but another example of 'less is more'

EDIT: I really liked that grey, so went looking at Mechanicus, and found a great Citadel -> Vallejo conversion guide, so thanks for making me investigate

Thank you! It's only my fourth attempt at a repaint. I used to do battletech miniatures way back (15 years ago) so just getting back into this.

The Mechanicus is a very nice base color to work off of, but I find I'm always adding other colors to it to get the shading I want, I've never used it pure. This is grey was a 50/50 split of the Mechanicus and the Ceramite White. Then the brushful of the blue. It's actually really ugly at first. The blue really overpowered it and I was worried that I maybe added too much blue. However, once I did the first wash of Nuln oil it really tamed the blue and balanced it out. By my third wash of Nuln oil it was exactly how I wanted it to look.

The Corsec X-Wing grey is the 50/50 Mechanicus/Ceramite for a base with one coat of the Nuln oil.

The metallic look comes from the Ruefang Silver. I use that an Ironbreaker a lot in small amounts as it has a metallic sparkle to it. They are both darker colors, but I still find them too bright to be used pure.

Good work. I esp. like your dial.

Wow...considering there's no metallics in there, it looks really...metallic'y

...that is just the perfect shade of grey to offset the red...a simple scheme [i know a lot of work went into it, don't get me wrong], but really effective - something I've said on here before, but another example of 'less is more'

EDIT: I really liked that grey, so went looking at Mechanicus, and found a great Citadel -> Vallejo conversion guide, so thanks for making me investigate

Wow is right! Sweet! Man I wish I could do stuff like that, very nice !

Nice paintjobs guys, i always marvel at what people manage to make.

There's an old trick for imitating metal on models that works well. After painting a piece flat black and allowing the paint to cure, shave the lead from a #2 pencil into a fine powder. Rub some on your finger tips then rub it onto the piece you want to "metallize". It leaves a very faint metallic sheen on the part. Use light pressure to just pick up the raised detail or more pressure to add more polish. Seal with varnish to protect.