68 SQUADRON

when you took those pics was you humming the Star Wars theme tune ? excellent work and definitely right about the panel lines.

just a quick word of warning to anyone else buying this kit.the helmet has a small piece that fits in the recess there the black/yellow lines go. i made the mistake of fitting it so i could primer the helmet, DONT. if you do you cant put the vision glass in.i had to cut the piece out so have now got to scratch build a replacement, that concludes the public service message for today.

will you be dropping a proton torpedo down that exhaust port by any chance?

ok so heres the pic of the boots and gloves, all black so not very exciting im afraid. the ring of flares are painted with tamiya aluminum i may colour code the tops for a little extra detail (gives me the excuse for some pink ). today i built the chest rig, its a rather fiddley but nicely designed piece. the back and front plates each have 4 different shaped hole , the 4 straps have the corresponding plugs. this way the whole thing can only go together one way. though i did need to clamp the top ones , not sure if they were warped or id just misaligned one. never the less it all went together ok in the end. i preshaded it with some duck egg blue and gave it a wash with very thinned tamiya sea blue. ok so thats it for today. thanks for viewing and your comments.

all good stuff. keep it up im defiantlylearning a few things here

almost there now, one more BIG push (oo errr misses)

looks great. some nice little touches. very atmospheric. i always wondered where the ladder went once luke got in on dagobah in empire though !

right so didnt get much done yesterday, airbrushed gloves and boots black and torso and head white ready for the flesh. the flare holder for the boot needed some clean up n filling which iv done this morning so thats not reprimed in black will be working on it when im back from work so maybe have some pics late tonight. oh and the car passed its MOT lol

love the LRDG chevy. iv got two in my stash i plan to work on to depict ones from the movie sea of sand, eventualy lol

its the energy bulb im afraid bob. though i do like a bit of pink myself. might have to sneak some in somewhere lol

Cheers Guys! Theres so much more to come, its going to take a while yet n thats just cutting up the base lol

amazing work. im starting to wish id picked one up when they were available at a proper price, not the fle-bay now ones.

looks better already.

right the flight suit. having never painted a figure this size with only an airbrush i went back to my armour days for the pre-shading. as orange is not usually as opaque is some colours i played it safe with nothing to dark, started with vallejo fire red for deep shadows, then there fire orange. game colour air moon yellow, and finally i tryed AKs new white airbrush paint. all worked ok but the Ak white im still not sure about, seemed a bit rubbery looking on the model. here are the results All in all i was happy with the results. It actually reminded me of Hans coat on Endor lol so next the orange, for this i used plain n simple vallejo air Orange . sprayed in a side to side up n down grid formation . so this is the result. once again the energy saving light bulbs dont do it credit, there are some nice subtle variances it he tone that dont show up in the photos, all in all i was quite impressed with the outcome so all i need do now is a light wash to bring out the seams n stitching . il leave that to nearer the end though. may give it a light satin varnish tho to keep it safe not sure il be able to do much tommorow as iv got my car to MOT and im on 2-10 at work but hopefully il be able to do something small at least. Enjoy.

thats amazing ! nuf said.

iv found it very useful, im worried about the candy alclad so iv got a spare torso from the Shiraki Meiko catsuit version im practicing with. hopefully after my jaina solo build il got liz finished

you could give him a motorbike style seat so he can fly in n out of the cockpit quickly

they have there problems but we still bought them because of the subjects. but then there almost 40 years old some of them, how many of us look as good today as we did 40 years ago, im pretty sure i dont lol

OOOPs! yes sorry everyone my typing mistake.

amazing build. iv got tho old mpc one to do but think il need to get one of theses too .

nice job Silverfox. simple but realistically effective . whos kits were they?

go to browse by series and then into star wars. i think she might be out of stock but will be back im sure. im doing the pre shading on the flight suit tonight n tommorow il hopefully have some more pics, better ones i hope. may use my phone as its a better camera than my fuji it appears

like these kits but never done one. my sons mad on Japanese stuff n has a couple in his stash. il get him to have a look at your thread.

my sprue arrived this morning , Yippie. So iv put it in the box n put the box back in my stash where it will maybe stay till the next Star Wars movie comes out lol. thanks again everyone and Fine scale models.

thanks all glad you like it. i really enjoyed doing it n i agree with all the comments on the look n feel of it, thats what attracted me to it