I've been mini painter do for other games and love the idea of repainting my scum and villains ships, my only question is undercoating.

Do people just undercoat the ship straight or remove the coat on the ahipa already?

Cheers

I just paint right over the stock paintjob. Never had a problem with it. I don't think stripping it is worth it.

Also: Welcome aboard! Looking forward to seeing your work.

Yup. Paint right over the stock .

I occasionally will just make a super thin white wash and use it to blank a ship over to white. But really only if I am intending to do a bright color scheme.

The out of the box ships paint over really well. Only exception is sometimes tie fighter wings are wierd about resisting paint.

The models aren't "painted" so much as colored plastic aren't they? You can only strip off the wash on them right?

Naw, the plastic is white, but the color coat is so thin as to be practically a non issue. Paint right over that joker.

5 hours ago, juxstapo said:

Naw, the plastic is white, but the color coat is so thin as to be practically a non issue. Paint right over that joker.

This isn't remotely true. The models' colour varies depending on what the main colour of the mini concerned is. THe Deci is grey, the Falcon is off-white.

I've never had much luck stripping the base coats though, to the point where I'm pretty sure some of them at least are integrated into the moulding process rather than painted on.

Ah, my mistake.. let me reduce that to; "I **think** TIE phantoms, Interceptors and perhaps y-wings are cast white, as these are the ship's I've actually hacked apart. But I'm not sure of anything anymore."

I paint on previously primed models. Usually factory paint isn't any problem, but sometimes I find random fibres glued to the model in factory wash D: My friend once bragged about the level of details he was able to get after stripping factory paint from his model, but I don't believe it - original paint is very thin, sometimes so thin that it's patchy.

And there is always risk of melting your models, so it's easier and safer to just pass the stripping process

On 2017-02-23 at 10:12 AM, thespaceinvader said:

This isn't remotely true. The models' colour varies depending on what the main colour of the mini concerned is. THe Deci is grey, the Falcon is off-white.

I've never had much luck stripping the base coats though, to the point where I'm pretty sure some of them at least are integrated into the moulding process rather than painted on.

The HWK is brown, the Scyk and Khiraxz olice-green plastics.

I wash all models with disc-washer before painting. Remove any oils etc.

Removing the original paint is possible, but mostly not worth it. If you want to paint with susceptible stuff like yellow, it might be worth to do a white base coat with a spraycan/airbrush first.

You can get rid of the wash they used pretty easily, but there's no need.

Yeah, it's not a bad idea to give them a quick rinse in warm soapy water before you start, because sometimes they'll have something on them that causes the paint to bead up on you and not cover properly, but even that doesn't happen all that often (I sometimes forget this step and it's usually ok).

Thanks guys, great help.

Wanting to do a real metallic look on the Aggressor then move on to the firespray

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Cheers,

should have my steampunk aggressor up soon