Teaser pics of GF's Red 5

mverta

PM Sent.

_Mike

PHArchivist

I agree on the accolades for Dean's paint-up.

But if you're referring to the long, skinny triangular-shaped grey stripes on the sides of the nose cone, these are evident in at least a couple published photos, and Dean would not be the first to incorporate them into a paint-up.

I agree with Mike only in that the yellow is often over done on replicas in general. I think Dean's looks fine.

To Dean's point, reference pics make it difficult to judge, and for anyone who has painted an X-Wing, we all know this is a hard color to nail. I used a mustardy yellow ochre on mine layered on thinly, hit it with white and black pastels to knock it back, and it still looks a tad bright. All my colors do, especially in photos. But in person they look just right.

Colin Droidmilk

Digital cameras have a far smaller dynamic range than film cameras - that's why all digital colour photos have 'over-separated' colours, i.e a yellow may appear too yellow, or a blue stripe may appear to occupy its own separate blue universe...

Anyway, outstanding paintjob on this Red 5.

Guy Cowen

I have used this method of swatching a few times now but I find the viewing angle makes a complete difference to the swatch, this swatch looks from a pink to a dark mustard depending on where I'm sat. Its tricky thing indeed to get color correct even if you get the viewing angle remotely near perfect.

ralphee

I get a very saturated yellow, which is kind of like the yellow ive wanted to mix for a while, but never quite got it right, i like it anyhoo, for some reason, i always blow at mixing decent hues of yellow.
I think it also depends on what the yellow is applied over, changes the hue quite a lot from my experience?

lee

Nwerke

Them's the ones, this was the thing Jason and I were debating a few months ago in that great X-wing thread. I've not seen a build prior to this where they were actual stripes; folk had been doing them as lines of smudging or laser hits. I have probably missed some as I was away from the boards over the southern summer.

PHArchivist

There is a great side shot of Red 5 (left side of the model, in the trench, I believe) that is on one of the first few preface pages of a fairly recent trade paperback book on Star Wars. Can't recall the title of the book though, off hand. It may have been the companion to the When Sience Meets The Imagination museum tour.

I incorporated this initially in my FX toy conversion a year or two back, plus emulated this on my more recent Pro-Shop build.



But I digress - this is Dean's thread. Back to his model now!

ralphee

Havent got a pic to hand, but i painted in the grey stripe on the nose for Chris' Salzo V1 build a good while back, though that part was at least a well known R5 trait.

lee

Nwerke

I stand corrected then. Good eyes, gents.