Hopefully a place to post my mods and re-paints.

First up a 30-minute Star Viper mod and re-paint:

I don't really love the way the stock FFG Star Viper model looks straight out of the package. To me the ship looks a bit to passive. I saw someone modify theirs to sweep the wings back and I wanted to give that a go. The article had a complex procedure of disassembling the model, re-shaping parts, removing glue and re-assembling. I just forced the wings back and hit each with a drop of super glue. Done in 60 seconds.

The stock white star viper is good for the ace Guri, but I wanted to have a second one with a different look in order to distinguish the two. This one I went for a bronze look with a simple sepia ink wash all over, then re-painted the highlights appropriately with orange and yellow. I followed this up by highlighting the guns with some steel dry brushing and a final liberal application of wear and tear with two colors using the torn sponge method. Total time 30 minutes...and well worth it I think!

That looks really good. Wash is a magic thing.

29 minutes ago, Amc879 said:

That looks really good. Wash is a magic thing.

Thanks. The key is to hit the whole model with an overcoat of dull lacquer before applying the wash. That way you get even coloring. If you want to highlight panel lines gloss the model before the wash.

For some reason my home PC and work PC have different accounts here I cannot seem to merge.

Gull-Wing Z-95 Nashta Pup Conversion

Since acquiring a Hounds Tooth for my X-wing scum forces I've wanted to paint up a matching Z-95 for the Nastha Pup escape craft. There are some good tutorials on how to do it but I wanted to do something a bit different. It was my thinking that if a ship were to be carried in a hanger it would need folding wings. I wanted my pup to be gull-winged.

To accomplish this I used a jeweler's saw to under cut each wing at the root and bent them down, closing the newly-created saw kerf with some plastic cement. Then I added some winglets made from plastic card to complete the effect. I've re-painted it in my interpretation of the pup's color scheme. I left off the top beak 'teeth'. Even though the card art shows them, I didn't like the look of them on such a small model. This mod and re-paint took a couple of hours, but I feel it was well worth the time.

Such a small mod, yet it makes it stand out. Great work on the Hound.

Your Starviper is cool too. I hadn't considered using bronze, but it works really well.

Two more additions, modified M3-A and modified Jumpmaster. More photos and info on my blog about both here: https://ajs-wargaming.blogspot.com/2019/12/two-x-wing-miniatures-modified-ships.html