X-Wing Red 6 Build

Wow, Rod! Amazing Work and even more amazing paintjob! You got some serious airbrush skills!

jedimaster said:

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Told you there was better pix of red 6 on da Blu ray....

WHERE? WHERE???
Could someone PLEASE share?

Nwerke said:

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No you dint.

Post 69 dude....

http://www.therpf.com/f10/good-refs-...10/index3.html

Thanks guys!
The pics are from the Bluray as Simon said, I do not remember which one on what documentary but just BluRay stuff plus the typical Red 6 pics.
Here is what I captured from the BR, enjoy:

















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Rod

Can't wait to see it finished Rod....

It really is a killer looking build and paint so far. Really great to see Red 6 come to life and with such talent.

Thanks for your words guys, I am glad you like the paint job.

So let me tell you about how I did it.
First of all, the result you see is not just Airbrush.
The colored panels, red squadron markings, and some weathering with Model Master's Burint Metal and Burnt Iron were applied with airbrush with the amount of Maskool needed here and there before airbrushing. Then, if the color of the panels looked too strong I downed it with the basic color grey used in the whole X-Wing.
After the Airbrushing is done, comes the most fun part of it, the acrylic water based paints to do some washes with brushes and something to dry and remove the extra paint to get the rust and dirt effect on the F-4 engines and where it looks it needs some color detail.
After the washes are looking good I start applying the weathering powders with brushes of different sizes, mostly the very dark burnt areas and some dirt and extreme rust retouches.
Finlay, some Dremel here and there to simulate some damage on the wings. To get this effect right, the X-Wing should be painted black before the X-Wing gray is applied, one of the reasons we cast the revisited X-Wing on black or dark grey resin.
Then comes the lacquer to seal it all and prevent the powder weathering to be removed by manipulation.
I hope this helps someone with the aging of his X-Wing
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Rod

Fantastic and inspirational. Please keep up with the pics, this is top notch.

Thanks!
-Raj

Agreed!!

Great work and thanks for the awesome pics, finally get a clear shot of R5-D4 in the droid slot.

No updates to this??

Haven't got much time lately fellas, but I hope to have some more stuff soon.
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Rod

Fantastic work Rod! Looking forward to see more.

Beautiful work. Any update?

Dude, this is one cool subject you are doing. I have 1/48 Finemold kit that I'm hoping to build this year. You are doing great. I really like the weathering effect. So, keep up the good work.

Mike

WOW! Great paint job so far! It just amazes me... all the talent!

Just wanted to see how this is coming along the paint up on the wings so far is killer hope we get some updates on this soon.



Chris

Well it looks like this thread has died, that sucks was really hoping to see how this was gonna come out.




Chris

Sorry guys, I've been very busy with the X-Wing commissions plus the Snowspeeder molding process so I have not had time to finish this build, but I will be posting stuff as soon as I have time to work on it, the thread is not dead yet

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Rod