14 hours ago, Gräfin Zeppelin said:

I hate you.

I take that as a compliment. 😄

I finished sculpting Yoda and I'm currently in the process of painting the little fella:

Looks really good, how did you modify the forest rangers if you dont mind that question.

Also your guide about faces was really helpfull, it feels I doubled my skill on that by just reading it 😄

26 minutes ago, Gräfin Zeppelin said:

...how did you modify the forest rangers if you dont mind that question.

You mean this one?

On 1/14/2019 at 5:48 PM, Fourtytwo said:

I exchanged her arms with those of an Echo Base Trooper, including the gun. I might have re-positioned the arms a bit. I like that look, and I'll convert the other two in a similar way, to make each of the three unique.

19 minutes ago, Fourtytwo said:

You mean this one?

I exchanged her arms with those of an Echo Base Trooper, including the gun. I might have re-positioned the arms a bit. I like that look, and I'll convert the other two in a similar way, to make each of the three unique.

You Sir are a (miniature) genius, thank you.

Painting Yoda finished I have. Stay healthy you all must.

Neat! Funny little fella...

@Fourtytwo Dude. Unbelievable. Your work is incredible (even more so after I finally bought a copy of Imperial Assault after all these years and saw how small the models are). Please do continue to share!

Absolutely amazing! I have just recently started painting my first minis and your thread is a brilliant aspiration. Thank you for sharing it with us.

1 hour ago, 500AAF said:

Absolutely amazing! I have just recently started painting my first minis and your thread is a brilliant aspiration. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Thank you, and welcome to your own hobby journey! I strongly recommend you two youtube channels which will greatly help you on your journey: Sorastro's painting tutorials, like for Imperial Assault or Star Wars Legion, and the Hobby Cheating series by Vince Venturella, which has loads of fine tipps and tricks and will help you avoid some pitfalls even experienced painters suffer now and then. Both are very positive and encouraging.

13 hours ago, Fourtytwo said:

Thank you, and welcome to your own hobby journey! I strongly recommend you two youtube channels which will greatly help you on your journey: Sorastro's painting tutorials, like for Imperial Assault or Star Wars Legion, and the Hobby Cheating series by Vince Venturella, which has loads of fine tipps and tricks and will help you avoid some pitfalls even experienced painters suffer now and then. Both are very positive and encouraging.

Thank you for the suggestions. I will have a look.

On ‎12‎/‎30‎/‎2018 at 8:52 PM, Fourtytwo said:

Does anyone remember the 1/2700th-scale Star Destroyer project I started two years ago (see above)? Yeah - I abandoned it, and when I went into homeoffice late March this year due to Corona, I got myself a new Zvesda-kit of this 2-foot Star Destroyer model and started over from scratch. And this time I went to town on it to make it as accurate to the 8-foot studio model and as impressive as I could.

So, the first order of the day was to raise the lower levels of the superstructure by approximately 8mm, because they were too flat on the kit. I also angled the neck and the attached command-section forward a bit so that they were parallel to the superstructure and the middle edge of the upper hull. With that done, I proceeded to build hundreds of scratch-built details from plastic card according to dozens of high quality reference photos of the original studio model, and added them to the few correct existing details or replaced existing details with them:

I even built a few teeny-tiny TIE Fighters from plastic card in scale to the model - 3D-printing is lame.

With hundreds of details added, I proceeded to painting the sub-assemblies. I brought out the volumes and subtle shadows and highlights by sprayundercoating with navy-grey, and then misting the model systematically with white. This gave me an already great-looking basis for the detail work, where I highlighted every single detail and raised surface, no matter how tiny. I also drew-in sharp straight panel lines no wider than a hair with a hard, very pointed pencil and by then slightly drybrushing the edges of the recessed panel lines. I also applied panel-shading with some slightly darker areas and some lighter ones.

After I finished painting this monster, it got two coats of super-matt varnish, and already looked awesome. I initially did not plan on installing lighting, but now I had to, so this became the first model I put lighting in. So, I drilled hundreds of .5mm-holes for the pin lights and opened up some bigger areas like in the main hangar for accurate lighting. All larger areas with light have diffusors installed, and the pin lights are fed with light using fiberoptics. The engines use a pre-manufactured kit for this specific model and are lit directly using strong LEDs.

After more than 4 months of constant work on this model every day - over 400 hours went into it - the Star Destroyer is finally finished.

I present you the DOMINATOR :

Wow, very, very cool! Awesome to stick with that project all the way through to the end, and congratulations on the amazing results!

That looks incredible. The lighting elevates it from merely superb to genuinely amazing. Great photography too.