I'm not looking to paint a fleet. In honesty I'm not looking to paint a ship at all. I was looking to paint the accessories. I want to run a TIE swarm and I want to separate each TIE with there own color. What type of paints/technique should I use? I want to paint the outside of the dial cover (plastic), the ship marker number (or a TL), and the peg th ship goes on.

Am I thinking too much into this? Will any type of paint work? Thanks, this thread is awesome. I have no talent to add, but I love looking.

I've used regular acrylic spray paint to paint my ship bases (red, yellow, blue & white) and also to paint the edges of my target locks that I use to correspond to each of the ship's bases (Yellow base/Yellow TL, and so on).

I get confused sometimes with so many tokens on the board that a little color coordination helps me. Also, I sometimes place a colored dot sticker on the backside of my dial to help keep straight which dial goes to which ship. I suppose you could paint the plastic hub on the dials, but that can turn into another thing to complicate things when you want to fly different ship combos.

Anyways, that's what helps me.

What about painting the front of the TLs (like how Thrawn does in his YouTube videos). Different type of paint?

I'm not familiar with the videos you mention. I used acrylic paint that I use to paint my ships, but you can use most any kind of paint, colored markers and even nail polish if you want to.

For bases, i would go the direction force suggests and go with a, acrylic spray paint. be careful however, as you dont want to spray it on too thick. If you do, your base dimensions will be slightly out of whack, and sometimes the cardboard can be a tight fit.

For the tokens, you could use paint, or even permanent markers works fine as well for the edges.

For stuff like this, cheap acrylic craft paint from Michaels, or any other craft store is fine.

I'm not familiar with the videos you mention. I used acrylic paint that I use to paint my ships, but you can use most any kind of paint, colored markers and even nail polish if you want to.

Here is a link. https://youtu.be/mr5ogn7j330

They haven't done one in a while but I liked the videos. See the markers I was talking about?

Here's a pic captured from the video to show what I believe Rolotamasi is talking about:

Assuming they used markers, those look like they were painted using paint markers, or paint pens. Each pen costs about the same as a bottle of acrylic model paint.

I don't think it would be a problem to use spray paint on the tokens if you want to use the same paint source for both the bases & target locks.

If you go that route, be patient. Spray from about 10 inches away and sweep back and forth from left to right in 3-5 second bursts.

NEVER in an enclosed area; you'll ruin your lungs. That stuff will hang in the air a loooooong time, so walk away and let it dry. Obviously, you'd paint the back side after the tops are completely dry.

I'm not sure how they painted the edges of their dials, whether it was with paint markers, or taped off the tops and used spray cans.

Instead of guessing, have you tried contacting them directly? They seem like nice fellows that wouldn't mind sharing their method.

I haven't. They haven't put out a video in a while, figured they were dormant. I will try that and the paint mark thing. That may be the trick, plus that should work for th edges of the plastic dual covers as well, right?

I tried using a black sharpie on a few dials, tokens, obstacles, etc. It worked very well.