Painting squadron contest

By NairoD, in Star Wars: Armada Painting and Modification

I'll paint something up tomorrow, but I'm in. I've been itching to work on more fighters.

I may actually finish something in time for this,.

My in laws got me the gold squadron Y-Wing Lego set to build with my son for my birthday last week, which inspired me to paint these. Pictures are kind of streaky because i needed a third hand to keep the camera steady, but it will do for now.

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Nice painting

Good job :)

Did a few TIE Fighter squadrons over this week. I'll take a couple more shots tomorrow in better lighting.

(See below for final picture)

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Ran out of time, but here's the Crimson Dragon Shuttle & VCX

Here's a better picture.

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Hopefully tomorrow we have sun, so I can take a good shot of what I've cooked up. Think Ray-Ban :D (aka I managed to paint a freaking squadron over the course of the week, was tough to find time alongside the ISD thunderchicken)

My VCX-100. Ended up looking a little bit like Captian Phasma armor. Not the greatest picture...but the best I have.

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I decided to get cheeky and jeweled a cockpit with gold. I call it the Firespray-Ban as it reminds me of a pair of mirrored aviators. Apologize for the phone picture, I didn't feel my DSLR did much except how highlight how bad super close macro photos of painting at 22MP with a 100mm telephoto macro can look :D

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I love it! What gold paint do/did you use?

38 minutes ago, SFC Snuffy said:

I love it! What gold paint do/did you use?

Vallejo Model Colour gold. most of my metallics are that line, thing them with a touch of water and they are beautiful paints. That is black and gold, blacked it out, bit of gold did the whole thing, the just mixed up in between to pure gold for the extreme highlight progressively.

Edit: Forgot to mention totally stole the jeweling scheme from @Vykes Anytime it may look like I had a cool idea, I probably stole it from him (or occasionally @Polda ) They are founts of painting awesomeness.

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Well, I'll throw my paint jobs in for this.

The VCX is a continuation of my WWII vibe ships. I did a Lancer and some E-wings in that same olive/red/orange or yellow highlights pattern. I took the VCX up a notch by doing it's belly in grey like you'd find on a B-17. Full disclosure: I randomly found Memphis Belle on one day and it gave me a good idea to run with here.

The Lancer is just a case of I loved the way my Defenders came out in the dark blue. And I wanted to expand upon it. I'm not thrilled with the result.

I was hoping to have a Z95 squad done... that's been a case of hot mess. I need to go get a new fine detail brush. Lines are hard without one. :lol:

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11th hour entry....

Tie Hunters:

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Not sure wtf those are, but fantastically clean work as always Gottmituns

yay TIE Hunters!

Sadly, I didn't get a chance to paint any of mine :/

The Hunters look awesome. Both as a paint job (great job, very well done!) and as a design. Where were they introduced?

Guys remember that we vote under post with signed works. To all who published they works.

GOOD JOB

Hope those works will motivate all to paint they unpainted squadrons.

I didnt posted my works (shame on me). Job still all my time. Hope next time will paint some :)

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smartphone joke
3 hours ago, NairoD said:

Guys remember that we post under post with signed works. To all who published they works

I find this statement not clear, can you clarify for us?

It should be Vote but my smartphone make some joke :(

Just painted Slave I up which I thought was worth entering.

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On ‎5‎/‎22‎/‎2017 at 4:58 PM, Kaashifar said:

What started as an experiment (the wing leader as a counter-colored ship) turned into.. well.. my first set of colored Aces and a unique paint scheme.

Also, hi guys! First post here :)

Heh, I like that paint scheme. Like mini Thrawn-wings.

On 5/30/2017 at 8:02 PM, Flare 22 said:

Heh, I like that paint scheme. Like mini Thrawn-wings.

Haha too bad it's the wrong faction because you just totally made those that much more awesome in my mind LOL!