I love it, greettings.

Thanks and thanks!

Good to be here. I spend a lot of time chatting on the UK Fb pages but saw some great posts that linked me to here while researching ship schemes... in particlula the OPs lovely grey/red scheme and i totally agree with the OP that it is better than the white most people use.

Throwing my keys into the pot:

My advice for people painting white is to use an off white, stonewall grey here, and only use the pure colour for the edge highlight.

Personally I like my white/red scheme. I s'pose horses for courses

That's very nicely done indeed. Kudos sir.

Like I say i'm not a great fan of 'rebel white' on this ship but i think your off white looks excellent.

I think your's looks like Kaths' just had a respray, mine looks like the same ship several months and battles later

Cheers boss

I wanted "box fresh" and to keep the scheme comparible to my Slave 1, which is untouched.

Good call. I struggled to keep mine looking as 'matt' as the FFG factory paints but found the 50/50 wash helped tone it all down. When it was factory fresh mine just didnt look like it was playing the same game!

Some WIP shots:

Slim, that looks very crisp and clean. Good job.

This is mine before i 'grimed' it. As you can see it looked really shiny.

Also once given the 'used future' look i put it against the stock facotry slave 1, i really needed to grime mine as it didnt fit before but your's clearly does.

I might just invest in some more of a matt finish varnish.

'clean' (with a few blast marks

and finished next to slave 1

I think my wash before painting helps my model, I've got the panel lines that yours seems to be missing pre-wash. I also benefit from the matt finish of the paints as I haven't varnished mine and the surface finish is the same as my other Slave.

I was going to wash it originally but when it was finished I felt a wash may be a step too far, ruining my hard work.

It takes confidence to wash a freshly painted model of this size.

;-)

I was worried about that too so i made it super thin and had a pot of clean cold water handy so if it looked gash i could just rinse it right off but it came out ok.

I'm using Foundry Paint System, i find that usually give super coverage, its like old GW paints when they were good (made by the same people who used to make GWs paint in the 80s i believe), huge pots that dont dry up about half the price of GW paint. I use GW inks though as foundry only do three and they are pants.

The downside is that foundry paint is slighly more 'shiny' than citadel. I've got a lot of Vallejo paint but that is so matt its almost chalky and if you dont varnish then it rubs off on your fingers!

I use army painter washes, top notch Added bonus is that they taste much better than the GW washes....ahem!