So I've been playing this game for a couple of years. I've looked at my models recently, and I found myself very disappointed in the "paint jobs" I gave them. Pretty much as bad as you can imagine. Cheap paint, gobbed on, and of course, nowhere near thinned. Now I have much better painting skills, so I dumped them all in a big bucket of 99% alcohol, stripped off all those mistakes (plus the FFG paint) and I'm starting from scratch!
The first ship I would really like to repaint and mod is my Standard Imperial Star Destroyer. I think I want to try going with the Errant Venture design!
For anyone unaware, the Errant Venture was an Imperial II-Class Star Destroyer from the Extended Universe or Legends novels. C aptured by the smuggler Booster Terrik. Originally commissioned into the Imperial Navy as the Virulence, under Terrik's ownership she became something of a mobile shadowport, and was for many decades the only privately owned Star Destroyer in the known galaxy, distinguished by her unusual red colouring.
So a bright Red Star Destroyer from an actual source. How cool? I've already ordered my Citadel Mephiston Red primer.
Interestingly, i n an online chat, Michael Stackpole, one of the writers of the X-Wing series, indicated not all of the Errant Venture was painted red. Some parts of the hull were reserved by Booster to rent out for advertising billboards. I would be really interested in trying to pull off a similar effect, with little printed billboards and extra parts hanging off the ship. Maybe extra docking bays or docking ports, plus some small ship models to add along to the Destroyer. Maybe somebody like Mel Miniatures could come out with a kit?
