48 minutes ago, Darth Drago said:

Am I really the only one who liked the movie?

-DD

No, oddly, you're not. I won't hate on those that enjoyed it, but I can't understand how you did. To each their own though.

Last picture dump for the day, I promise. I've tried a couple of methods for painting/dyeing the light gray TIEs to match the blue-gray versions. Tried using a blue wash on the TIE Bomber that comes in the Imperial Veterans pack. I think it turned out well. Not a 100% match, but close enough for (Imperial) government work.

Do you mind giving the name of the wash/company that makes the wash? I really don't like the light gray of the Veteran's Tie.

-DD

22 minutes ago, Darth Drago said:

Do you mind giving the name of the wash/company that makes the wash? I really don't like the light gray of the Veteran's Tie.

-DD

Sure. It was "The Army Painter - Warpaint - Quickshade Blue Tone Ink" I watered it down to the consistency of a wash, about a 2/1 ratio of water/ink. Honestly, I probably should have done a 3/2 ratio, so it would be a bit more blue.

https://www.amazon.com/Army-Painter-Warpaint-Quickshade-Blue/dp/B00GDJ72E4

7 hours ago, Alpha17 said:

Sure. It was "The Army Painter - Warpaint - Quickshade Blue Tone Ink" I watered it down to the consistency of a wash, about a 2/1 ratio of water/ink. Honestly, I probably should have done a 3/2 ratio, so it would be a bit more blue.

https://www.amazon.com/Army-Painter-Warpaint-Quickshade-Blue/dp/B00GDJ72E4

Maybe try their Mixing Medium. Should dilute/thin the paint without losing the colour too much.

Nice work!

21 hours ago, ccm2361 said:

Nice work!

Thank you kindly.

A little off topic, but since I'm the evil Emperor of this thread, here goes:

Between rounds of getting my bum kicked at the Campaign Against Cancer tournament in Independence, MO, I was fortunate enough to win some X-Wing Token/die themed coasters. They were made by 6by6arts.com, and were quite nice. I used the Focus coaster as a focus token my next game (and I actually won that one!) Since they were wood, I decided to try my hand at painting them, and this was the result. Decided to make them look like the game's dice that we all know and love so much.

Or, if you're like me, and you aren't entirely sure that your dice actually have white paint on all of them, this view may be more familiar to you

1 hour ago, Alpha17 said:

I'd be super tempted to troll everyone by using those green ones as tokens.

nice work!

1 hour ago, Alpha17 said:

...love so much.

Yeah right.

-DD

2 hours ago, Kieransi said:

I'd be super tempted to troll everyone by using those green ones as tokens.

nice work!

I'm debating doing just that at an upcoming City vs City tournament,

I have been watching entirely too much of the Clone Wars, and playing too much TIE Fighter on my old PC. So guess what that means!

Sheathipede in CIS colors:

And a tease for what's next:

On 4/9/2018 at 10:03 AM, Alpha17 said:

A little off topic, but since I'm the evil Emperor of this thread, here goes:

Between rounds of getting my bum kicked at the Campaign Against Cancer tournament in Independence, MO, I was fortunate enough to win some X-Wing Token/die themed coasters. They were made by 6by6arts.com, and were quite nice. I used the Focus coaster as a focus token my next game (and I actually won that one!) Since they were wood, I decided to try my hand at painting them, and this was the result. Decided to make them look like the game's dice that we all know and love so much.

Or, if you're like me, and you aren't entirely sure that your dice actually have white paint on all of them, this view may be more familiar to you

This reminds me: I've been meaning to do Action Bar and Upgrade Bar bumper stickers.

As I teased yesterday, I finally broke down and ordered a Clone Wars Y-Wing from Mel's Miniatures. After debating it back and forth, I settled on the red paint job, so it would match my other Clone Wars repaints. Here's the results:

And since I don't have a picture for a tease this time, let me just say that Grand Admiral Zaarin has arrived.

What material is that?

-DD

1 hour ago, Darth Drago said:

What material is that?

-DD

The Y-Wing was the "Frosted Ultra Detail" option.

As teased last week, Grand Admiral Zaarin has arrived, and he brought his TIE Avengers with him:

Yes, I've been playing waaaaay too much TIE Fighter recently, which gave me a few ideas for repaints. Not sure if Zaarin ever had TIE Advanced x1s, but I thought this was a cool evolution picture.

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On 3/30/2018 at 3:11 PM, Darth Drago said:

Am I really the only one who liked the movie?

-DD

Definitely not, I love it to pieces.

9 hours ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Definitely not, I love it to pieces.

Join me and together we can rule the forum as...um...HWK pilot and member?

-DD

Simple repaint for today. I decided to run a QD/Vessery/Aggressor list at a City vs City tourny last week, and I just couldn't run a ship that hadn't been painted, so this was the result. Tried to combine the ideas of the TIE/SF markings and the blood stripes of the 181st.

Well, 2.0 and painting Legion have distracted me for a while, but oh well. Before the glorious news that the First Order was being split off into their own faction, I was toying with working in a few of their designs. That won't happen now, but I'm not crying.

I've hated the FO TIEs since the first trailer for TFA, so painting them was wone of my first steps. I didn't hate the red blood stripe, but felt that a "special forces" TIE should be a bit sneakier than having bright white bullseyes for wings. A simple black coat fit the bill nicely.

On the opposite side, I thought the all black TIE Silencer was boring and gave it the same Blue/Grey paint job that all TRUE Imperial TIEs should have.

Some will like these, most will hate them. Presenting the Yorik-Et, fresh from the Yuuhzan Vong coral gardens of Mel's Miniatures:

As they are alive, I tried to paint them similar, but all slightly different. Overall I think they turned out well, and were relatively easy to paint, and will probably be ordering more to use in an Invasion of the Aturi Cluster campaign.

You do you. Keep painting!

On 5/15/2018 at 4:48 PM, Alpha17 said:

On the opposite side, I thought the all black TIE Silencer was boring and gave it the same Blue/Grey paint job that all TRUE Imperial TIEs should have.

What color(s)/wash/etc did you use to match the Imperial blue? It looks amazing!

7 hours ago, impspy said:

What color(s)/wash/etc did you use to match the Imperial blue? It looks amazing!

Thanks. I painted the whole thing with Testors Flat Dark Aircraft gray, and used "The Army Painter - Warpaint - Quickshade Blue Tone Ink" mixed with a lot of water. Let it sit in the mix for a while, then took it out to dry, then put it back in. Repeated the process until it was the shade I liked.