Vanoyen
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Another masterpiece
Love the chipping and the lights are the icing on the cake.
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Amazing job! That base is genius.
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Very nice. Cheers
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Very cool. Those bases are awesome!
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Very nice. Those engines look great!
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Quick question... How in the world do you paint such tiny scratches? Do you use a tiny brush or tooth pick or something?
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Amazing work on these! Your skills in painting such small vehicles never ceases to amaze me
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Great job! I love how you made the base.
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Looking good
Weird about the magnets. Are there other Aoshima kits of the same type of ship? Maybe the parts can be interchanged or something.
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I think you've a great job!
If you're using this as a miniature for film use then I think you're definitely on the right track.
Have a look at some of the techniques used by ILM. There models weren't pristine and perfect models made for a showroom. They were often quite quickly slapped together with pretty rough weathering. A couple of the reasons for this were the shading, weathering, etc needed to stand out on film and because you only saw then for a few seconds at a time (while in motion) they still looked amazing.
If you take a look at the model in the pic below, you'll see that the weathering is quite similar to what you've already done.
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On 24/07/2017 at 10:31 PM, jake the snake said:
Fantastic work on the lighting and weathering! If your really into U wings, Target has the big Hasbro toy version for 25 dollars. Id love to see you do a conversion on one of those. Great looking model!
Cheers Jake. I was actually considering doing a Hasbro version but I've got a few other projects I've just started and I fear if I add a large project like thew Hasbro U-Wing I'd never get any of them finished
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Amazing job! You've captured the feeling brilliantly.
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Great build! I've always loved the JJ Prise version... so huge and stylish. I think you've done amazing work on the lights and azteking.
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Very nice work! The red markings look great. I love the fleet pic also... they look great together.
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Looking Awesome!
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3 hours ago, Gimme Shelter said:
very nice model. The more I see these U wings, the more I keep on thinking that of all the space vehicles produced for the Star Wars films that followed onto the big screen after RoTJedi, the U wing is probably one of the only designs that really works for me and fits into what I always considered to be believable looking designs befitting of the original 3 Star Wars films. You've made a nice job of this kit - I'm glad to see it on the forum as I was tempted to buy it last weekend but decided my stock pile was a tad on the high side to date.
Did Revell supply the LED lighting kit with the model?
The kit originally had a green light inside the cockpit and a small speaker for laser sounds attached to a simple circuit board with built in switch. I just cut them off the circuit board and wired LEDs to the original connection for the green cockpit light. I had to cast clear engine nozzles but you easily just drill out the centres and get a very similar look with blue LEDs.
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Finally got around to finishing this one off. I was going to make a rocky desert base but decided just on a plain one as I've got too many other projects I'd like to get started on. I'll still make the desert base for her but I'll do it as a side project.
All in all, this was a very fun kit to build. There's a few small inaccuracies but they are easily fixed and builds into a very nice model for the price.
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Got a few more bits done.
The kit engines lacked a large amount of detail. There's a pattern of panels in the centre which where completely missing on the kit so I scribed them in. I painted the rear engine halves a medium/dark grey shade then gave them a wash with Flory Models black.
Another detail that was missing from the kit was the grooves along the sides of the wings. I scribed along the centre of the wing then used a square mini file to widen the channel. After that I made up a very dark grey wash (again using Flory Models washes) and pin-washed the groove, wiping away the excess.
The glass on the model was a very thick plastic which didn't look too realistic so I sanded down the window frames, cut some .03 clear styrene to shape used it to replace the windows. I'm very happy with how well this worked. It doesn't show too well in pics because it's so clear but as the model is moved around and looked at from different angles there's a beautiful glint that adds a little realism.
I also ended up scratch building a radiator thingy for the back end. It's just a simple design with around 12 or 13 pieces of sheet styrene cut to shape and glued together with a small spacer in between each layer. I painted it the same grey shade as the centre engine piece but it still needs to be weathered.
I had a few dramas with the engine lighting. I wired it all up, tested it and they worked well. After gluing the fuselage haves together I tested them again and to my horror they started flickering, fading, then went out. If i had to guess, I'd say i had probably shorted out the circuit board somehow (maybe with resin) but i was very careful. Either way I to open her up again. I removed the circuit board, re-wired everything, added a small switch and now they work fine again.
There's not a lot left to do now. I just need to join the engine halves properly, do some final weathering and she's done. I decided against making up a beach diorama because The U-Wing on Scarif had a different colour scheme so I'll do a simple desert theme display base instead. Once she's finished, I'll take a few proper pics and post her up in the Ready for Inspection section.
Thanks for looking
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Coming along very nicely. Can't wait to see the hoodie.
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Very nice!
Can I ask.. where'd you find the little figures?
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Another quick update..
I've started preparing the engines to be lit up. I cut off the end nozzle pieces from the kit parts and from the clear blue resin casts I made earlier. I hollowed out the kit part (sorry no pic of that) then grafted the resin nozzles to the kit parts and did a quick light test to see how it looked. So far so good but I won't really know for sure until I've done some light blocking and painted/weathered the exterior so it's a bit of a gamble.
I've also started weathering the body and wings. This is a pretty new experience for me. I've only built five models and out of those, only one needed weathering but it was dark in colour so I'm plodding along carefully and using methods I've learnt from Googling and from you guys and I've actually been enjoying it a great deal. I've been building up the layers and isolating various panels using Filters. The panels of the kit are different to the actual ship so I've had to use a little creative licence but I think I'm getting pretty close. I've just got to be careful not to over do it.
More soon
P.S. I big thank you to AndyRM101 for his help with posting pics. Cheers.
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21 hours ago, AndyRM101 said:
Yes, if you just copy the address for the page the photo is on, and post that, you'll only get a link to that page. There's more than one way of posting photos from Flickr, but this is the one I use.
On the page for the shot you're using, there are five white icons on the bottom right of the photo. If you click on the forth (arrow pointing down, with a line below it), you'll get a pop up window showing a list of sizes to download that photo. At the bottom of the list is 'view all sizes'. Click on that, and it will open the photo in a new page, with all the available sizes listed across the top. By default, it opens at 1024 pixels wide, which is the size I usually post at, but you can select a different size if you want.
Right click on the image itself, and select 'copy image address'. Go back to Britmodeller and paste that link into your post. It'll appear as a link at first, but the forum software will automatically turn it into the actual image.
I do all this on my laptop browser. If you're on a tablet/phone, you'll need to do it through a browser too. I wouldn't even bother trying with the Flickr app. It's not much good for anything apart from looking at photos.
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Awesome, very helpful. Thank you very much
And you as well Will Vale cheers
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Andy... Can you please share how you post your pics?
I have mine on Flickr and when posting a pic I copy the address link of pic but when clicking on it, it takes the viewer to the pic on Flickr. How do you get your to enlarge but stay on the Britmodeller site?
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Wow! That's beautiful.
Please share how you painted your greys
Very nice.
Love the chipping and the lights are the icing on the cake.
Imperial Star Destroyer - Randy Cooper Resin 1/1500
in Ready for Inspection - SF & RealSpace
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Very cool. Love the little falcon and shuttle. It always amused me how in Empire no one looked out the window to discover the falcon hiding there lol.