Hello there!

I've recently finished converting and repainting my CR90 Corellian Corvette for X-wing Miniatures to accurately represent the Liberator from Star Wars REBELS and Rogue One.

As for the converting part, here's what I did:

• removing the top dual Turbolaser and replacing it with a scratch-built quad Turbolaser as per official renders of the ship in the show
• removing the bottom dual Turbolaser and re-attaching it deeper in its circular mount, as per the original filming and digital models
• scratch-building two guns as per the original digital model in its upgunned variant and attaching them to the port and starboard docking rings

Amazing work! Might I ask how the photo was taken? I.e how the background was done.

On 7/7/2020 at 9:36 AM, Prof.cogsworthy said:

Amazing work! Might I ask how the photo was taken? I.e how the background was done.

The background is simply a black neopren mat. It doesn't reflekt much light, so it is almost black. I select the background through color selection in a graphics tool and turn it slightly darker, so it is solid black (0,0,0 RGB). This also enables me to lift the model neatly from the background and insert it into another backdrop, or to insert another backdrop into the photograph:

I've also added engine glow (on the real model, not digitally )

I'm currently playing around with creating more cinematic images of my painted models - for X-wing, for Imperial Assault and for Legion. Here's another example for X-wing - you can expect more like these in the near future, maybe collected in a seperate thread:

thank, this is all very well done, what software did u use?

6 hours ago, Prof.cogsworthy said:

thank, this is all very well done, what software did u use?

Thanks. Depending on which machine I'm working on, Photoshop or Corel Photo Paint. It doesn't really matter - as long as the software allows you to work in layers and customize your selection tools, masking tools, filling tools and brushes, you will be fine.

thanks!

On 7/8/2020 at 5:44 AM, Fourtytwo said:

I'm currently playing around with creating more cinematic images of my painted models - for X-wing, for Imperial Assault and for Legion. Here's another example for X-wing - you can expect more like these in the near future, maybe collected in a seperate thread:

This is some really cool stuff, I hope you'll share more in the future 👍

Any chance you could share your photo\lighting setup?

What material and technique did you use to make the quad and side turbolasers?

On 8/21/2020 at 8:34 PM, Gallofree said:

What material and technique did you use to make the quad and side turbolasers?

The Quad Turbolaser I built using bits and pieces from model kits. The barrels, for example, are the front half of 4 barrels of the main guns of a 1/350 scale Prinz Eugen kit. Other parts like the protrusion at the top center of the gun tower I carved from a bit of sprue. Here's an image of the unfinished scratch-build of the Quad Turbolaser:

And here's a close-up of the finished and painted Quad Turbolaser:

As for the guns attached to the docking rings, they are both scratch-built using pieces of plastic card, which comes in sheets, rods and other profiles of varying thickness and can easily be cut and carved: