inferno squad TIE

HOTAC Y-wing pilot Melissa “Lafayette” Brown

HOTAC violet squadron X-wing (identifiable by the purple windows)

HOTAC archenemy TIE phantom

any tips or feedback is greatly appreciated

For the inferno TIE, I am also considering painting on the inferno squad logo to one or both of the wings, just unsure of how to go about it in a safe way for the ship

Modded TIE defender

Deci with bigger gun (cause I may or may not have lost the normal ones...)

Sinister!

As far as

On 11/27/2017 at 1:47 PM, DeathstarII said:

For the inferno TIE, I am also considering painting on the inferno squad logo to one or both of the wings, just unsure of how to go about it in a safe way for the ship

If you have Dollar stores around you, there's a product called LA's Totally Awesome (like a high strength degreaser, essentially.. yellow fluid in a spray bottle, smells super strong), that'll take acrylic right off these ships without harming the original finish. I left my Lambda soaking an entire weekend by accident and it was fine.

My freehand sucks, but I think the successful emblem painters on here would (perhaps) use a stencil for the circle prior to adding the stripes? I'm reaching at this point...

Keep it up.

1 minute ago, juxstapo said:

Sinister!

As far as

If you have Dollar stores around you, there's a product called LA's Totally Awesome (like a high strength degreaser, essentially.. yellow fluid in a spray bottle, smells super strong), that'll take acrylic right off these ships without harming the original finish. I left my Lambda soaking an entire weekend by accident and it was fine.

My freehand sucks, but I think the successful emblem painters on here would (perhaps) use a stencil for the circle prior to adding the stripes? I'm reaching at this point...

Keep it up.

Thanks! In the time since I’ve posted, I’ve painted all my imperial ships with red windows (I’ll post them eventually) (and yes I’m counting the firespray for imperial)

Scurrg repaint!

based on nym’s scum art (best I could do anyway)

More repaints!

fenn rau lives in a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede/ it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot sheathipedey

“Silver leader, standing by”

red squadron U-wing

gold panels, to match the gold Vader I’ll make when Star Wars legion comes

I can’t find a decent pic of the back of an Inferno Squad TIE Fighter but I seem to remember, from playing the game, that they had a red circle around the solar ionization reactor.

7 hours ago, DeathstarII said:

fenn rau lives in a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede/ it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot sheathipedey

Haw-haw

7 hours ago, DeathstarII said:

... to match the gold Vader I’ll make when Star Wars legion comes

Darth Bling!

13 hours ago, weisguy119 said:

I can’t find a decent pic of the back of an Inferno Squad TIE Fighter but I seem to remember, from playing the game, that they had a red circle around the solar ionization reactor.

Interesting, I’ll look that up and if that’s correct, I’ll get it painted when I get the chance

19 hours ago, DeathstarII said:

gold panels, to match the gold Vader I’ll make when Star Wars legion comes

That’ll match my gold blingtroopers

On 12/23/2017 at 11:45 AM, DeathstarII said:

Interesting, I’ll look that up and if that’s correct, I’ll get it painted when I get the chance

I found a video on YouTube and took a screenshot. Here you go:

https://imgur.com/a/MYNgk

On 23/12/2017 at 2:18 AM, DeathstarII said:

More repaints!

fenn rau lives in a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede/ it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot sheathipedey

“Silver leader, standing by”

red squadron U-wing

The U-wing looks great. But then I am a sucker for most things rogue one and I love U-wings in general

inferno squad lambda

Do you have a finer tipped brush? I'm not sure if the way you are applying paint is a stylistic choice or a result of either over-loading the brush and/or using too big a brush for the job.

Just now, Force Majeure said:

Do you have a finer tipped brush? I'm not sure if the way you are applying paint is a stylistic choice or a result of either over-loading the brush and/or using too big a brush for the job.

Considering I only have two brushes and a toothpick...probably both of the latter

If you have a spare $5 or so, you can pick up a pack of cheap brushes from Jo-Anne's, Wal-Mart, Michaels, Hobby Lobby or similar that has a wide variety of sizes typically from 0 or 00 (fine & super fine) on up.

Not the ones with coarse bristles. It should say they're for watercolors or for acrylic paints.

Then you can also mess around with different painting techniques like dry-brushing or panel lining.

If you're not keen on spending $5 per bottle of the better model paints (Vallejo, Citadel, Army Painter, etc.), you can get away with buying craft paint from those stores too which usually run about $1-$3. Or you could pick up a basic set of acrylic artist paints (the kind that come in a tube) for around $10-15. They have a bigger variety of colors in the sets, but they are in tubes, in which case you can and should make a wet palette (a tupper-ware/sandwich box, household sponge or paper towel, baking parchment paper and water) to preserve the paints your'e using. Google it. Supplies available at the dollar stores. I've had them stay usable for 4+ weeks.

30 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

If you have a spare $5 or so, you can pick up a pack of cheap brushes from Jo-Anne's, Wal-Mart, Michaels, Hobby Lobby or similar that has a wide variety of sizes typically from 0 or 00 (fine & super fine) on up.

Not the ones with coarse bristles. It should say they're for watercolors or for acrylic paints.

Then you can also mess around with different painting techniques like dry-brushing or panel lining.

If you're not keen on spending $5 per bottle of the better model paints (Vallejo, Citadel, Army Painter, etc.), you can get away with buying craft paint from those stores too which usually run about $1-$3. Or you could pick up a basic set of acrylic artist paints (the kind that come in a tube) for around $10-15. They have a bigger variety of colors in the sets, but they are in tubes, in which case you can and should make a wet palette (a tupper-ware/sandwich box, household sponge or paper towel, baking parchment paper and water) to preserve the paints your'e using. Google it. Supplies available at the dollar stores. I've had them stay usable for 4+ weeks.

Thanks, I’ll work on that

Multiple brushes to choose from will definitely help with what I want to do to my resistance bomber, paint Paige on one side with “Paige” in aurabesh above her, and do the same with rose on the other side

On 11/27/2017 at 8:28 PM, DeathstarII said:

Modded TIE defender

I assume you just snapped off the wing and glued it back on? Tres effective, no?

On 12/25/2017 at 4:17 AM, Jabby said:

fenn rau lives in a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede/ it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot sheathipedey

Glad to see my idea actually got somewhere!

On 12/25/2017 at 3:17 AM, Jabby said:

fenn rau lives in a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede, a yellow sheathipede/ it was an itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot sheathipedey

Tried singing this. Not for the faint of heart.

30 minutes ago, Darth Drago said:

Tried singing this. Not for the faint of heart.

Which one did you try singing?