Long time lurker - 'bout time I contributed:

My first repaint was the obligatory Nashtah Pup

Then I created a pair Gand Findsmen for a sadly underperforming triple-G list

And the first in a series of Scurrg's to match each of the different card art

TIE Phantom in grey

and cloaking

Also tried my hand at conversions (no repainting as yet) -

From a minor tweak (re-pos that awkwardly placed cannon)

to something a little more severe

(trigger warning to fans of ' phat span ' - you may find the following images disturbing)

That Scurrg tho'

Got to get me like 3 or 4 more just to re-paint. I don't care if I haven't fielded one yet!

I am just a tiny bit sad that the Rebels lost the Scurgg in 2.0. I'd be okay if we lost Nym and got a generic!

5 hours ago, Force Majeure said:

Got to get me like 3 or 4 more just to re-paint. I don't care if I haven't fielded one yet!

I did just that.

Bought 4 without the intention to ever fly that many at once, purely to have 3 done in the each of the different art and 1 kept stock (but I may go over the maroon sections in a lighter red, to match the Pirate, and Sixxa when I ultimately get to around to him).

In addition to the above, I've also made a Defender grey, made a HWK a lighter brown (pics of both to come) and have a N'Dru and Kath in progress.

But of the ships I've painted, the Scurrg was the most enjoyable (even despite the number of blended layers of red I had to lay down before I was happy with the result). That ship is a canvas of potential.

As mentioned above, I do have a couple of other simple repaints.

The Defender, in grey.

And a colour swap on a Fang (left)

(the one on the right is stock colours for comparison)

And my Moldy Crow HWK (on the left, with unchanged one on the right to show the subtlety of the repaint)

I was intending to paint the brown parts white, to match the Title card art - but upon further research found the stock paint job already seems to be the Moldy Crow - and not finding any other source matching the FFG card... so I opted for a middle ground. I intend to eventually paint over the red stripes on the darker one with a matching brown, so that it resembles the art for Torkil Mux.

I also forgot to mention one of my earliest conversions and re-paints of this little ducky

Its first repaint was simply trying to match the converted front of the passenger-pod to the stock blue of the model - but I couldn't quite get the colour. So I just ended up going for Imperial grey all over instead, after seeing people do white and grey repaints. Since doing the Defender and Phantoms, and discovering how good the grey looks on other TIE's, I've started doing an Interceptor and plan to do my Aggressors in grey too!

And now on to some projects that were so little work that they barely rate a mention (but are getting one anyway).

I wanted to give my Bomber fleet an Epic ride, but anyone who's tried will have found that it's the only (eligible) docking ship that won't actually fit into the clamps - partly due to the chutes, partly due to peg placement - so I hacked away at the bottom end of the clamps with blade and file until they did (without needing to modify the Bombers).

And lastly, for now, not so much a re-paint but a de-paint. I stripped all the black markings from the front of a StarViper to match the Xizor/Guri cards.

(for those wanting to know how - by using a cottonbud/Q-tip dipped in Isopropyl Alcohol, and gently rubbing away the black paint - it was quite quick and simple to get most of it off -you can still see some traces left, I may or may not re-visit it - could just leave it as slight "weathering")

That Scurrg... so simple.. yet at the same time so awesome... wish mine looked like that!

They're all so clean! Well done!

and that baby K-Wing... so cute. I love it.

The Chibi K wing and arc are both so adorable.

On 5/17/2018 at 9:14 AM, Lost Pharaoh said:

As mentioned above, I do have a couple of other simple repaints.

The Defender, in grey.

And a colour swap on a Fang (left)

(the one on the right is stock colours for comparison)

And my Moldy Crow HWK (on the left, with unchanged one on the right to show the subtlety of the repaint)

I was intending to paint the brown parts white, to match the Title card art - but upon further research found the stock paint job already seems to be the Moldy Crow - and not finding any other source matching the FFG card... so I opted for a middle ground. I intend to eventually paint over the red stripes on the darker one with a matching brown, so that it resembles the art for Torkil Mux.

I also forgot to mention one of my earliest conversions and re-paints of this little ducky

Its first repaint was simply trying to match the converted front of the passenger-pod to the stock blue of the model - but I couldn't quite get the colour. So I just ended up going for Imperial grey all over instead, after seeing people do white and grey repaints. Since doing the Defender and Phantoms, and discovering how good the grey looks on other TIE's, I've started doing an Interceptor and plan to do my Aggressors in grey too!

How did you make the transport section of the TIE Bomber??

The baby-K-Wing is adorable!

6 hours ago, Jaffamaster said:

How did you make the transport section of the TIE Bomber??

1) at first I tried to pry off the front piece of the model (it's a single piece consisting of the pilot canopy, ordnance pod bulkhead and connecting gribbles), in order to facilitate some sort of (as at that time, unvisualised) conversion - but it was glued on too darn well.

2) so I just clipped off the launch guide rails from the ordnance aperture and used a drill bit to make the hexagonal hole into a round observation window. Then I used green-stuff to create the rim around the window and smooth out the surface of the 'glass' (the drill had created a concave surface courtesy of its slight pointy shape). I also cut off the bomb chute at this stage as well.

3) to make it look different to a normal Bomber, I decided to snip off the 8 tabs around the outside of the bulkhead, and filled in the 8 corresponding cut-outs with green-stuff.

4) after painting over it in a not-so-matching blue, I found the large smooth flat area contrasted unsatisfactorily with the detail on the rest of the model. So I scribed the 6 radiating panel lines onto the bulkhead. I had not made a mental connection that the panel lines on the pilot side - and the original 8 tabs - suggested 8 panels would be more consistent with the prevailing design... though, that being said, I'm sure sure that 8 might not have looked quite right either (iirc, my first set of panel lines was only four - vertical and horizontal - but it didn't look right, so I filled in the horizontal with putty then scribed the angled ones you see now.

So, not sure its conveyed in last half of the preceding paragraph, but I'm actually not 100% happy with final outcome. Even now, the bulkhead looks too smooth and undetailed compared to the rest of the model.

With hindsight, if I was to do it again, I would just stop at step 2 above. I had no plan for what I was wanting to do when I did the 3rd step, so the 4th was simply trying to make the best of a possibly misguided application of the clippers.

Having opted for a final colour scheme that differentiates it from normal Bombers, there'd be less concern that the bulkhead would only have the window (in addition to the lack of chute) to tell them apart.

I do have some ideas of how I could have designed the panel lines instead, and sculpted some minor features (sensors, conduit, lights), but since its painted, I can't really be bothered to strip it back and revisit. And now 2.0 is upon us, I'm not even sure the TIE Shuttle will be a thing (!?).

On 5/20/2018 at 3:57 AM, Kieransi said:

and that baby K-Wing... so cute. I love it.

19 minutes ago, Admiral Deathrain said:

The baby-K-Wing is adorable!

And I've actually done 2 of them that way. I have since gotten a third. It'll end up under the knife too, one day.

( just nobody tell Mr Fickle; he would have me up on charges of Crimes Against Huge-span-ity )