Astroboy's bandai millennium falcon..finished!

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Sooo I'm almost ready for streaking. I just have some light spot oil washing to do. And some darkening here and there. (I'm going to do a lot of spatter at the end to supply a lot of the texturing.)

This build uses the shapeways cockpit and radar dish. As well as the greenstrawberry engine vents

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My last 1/144 falcon was WAY too heavy on the oils. I tried to lightly differentiate between panels and although that may work on a 1/72....at the scale it looked like a quilt. (This is why I'm going for subtlety on this one. Going for clean layers that build to something. ) For this one I just used oils for the streaking

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The first falcon I did, I used gundam markers. Oddly, they seemed to be scaled the best. But I can't seem to find pics of that one. Besides....it was an awful model.


Anyway, the point of this is that the streaks either make it or break it for me. What techniques did you use? And were you happy with the results?
 
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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

I used Burnt Umber oil on my Bandai. Random dots placed all over with a 5 zero brush. I then took a very wet (Turpenoid) flat brush and pulled it along the dot. I then cleaned the brush and repeated until I was happy with the resulting streak. I do a section at a time. If it appears I've gone overboard I'll go back with a dry flat brush and remove some oil.
Astroboy, I can't see your pics, blocked here at work. I'll check them out tonight at home.
Random dots..
2i6ml49.jpg


Streaked...
352nhtx.jpg


And the finished finish with some pastel chalk to further dirty it up.
53wxlv.jpg

fnber9.jpg

zmcays.jpg

2ih11ly.jpg

2a0guh4.jpg

jj8qh2.jpg


To me, subtle is the key to a good looking Falcon.
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

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I used a similar technique, oil with terpenoid, for the really fine streaks I used oils and a ruler as a guide for the brush to get them nice and straight, sometimes also wiping the streaks with a wide flat brush almost dry but lightly dampened with turpenoid. In the end PanPastels for engine streaks and battle damage areas and so on. In my case I really studied the source material and tried to get those streaks as close to the one on the 32" studio model...not sure if I got them all right :p but it helped to get the overall Falcon look if you know what I mean.

To tell the truth I repainted that model like 3 times before I was sorta happy, but looking at it now I would probably do it a 4th time...I save that for when my Deago is all done;)
 
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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

I think I'm going to experiment with charcoal and erasers. Luckily I have an old fine molds 1/144 as a test pig

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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

I'll have to try that technique. I always used oil pastels with mixed results. Streaking is not my strong suit. :lol
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

I guess most of you have seen this but to you who has not its a pretty cool vid doing weathering and streaking using an Airbrush...the ILM way :)
LINK streaking starts around 11:15. You might have all kinds of opinions regarding Steve Dymszo...but he is a pretty good Modeler/Painter...though he has/had some issues with the community.

Not for everyone, but with practice I think its a valid method and it can be applied sorta fast.
 
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Yeah, I think I'm gonna try this with charcoal pencils and erasers. That might give me the most control

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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

I sometimes use a Primacolor Silver colored pencil to add minor scratches/paint chips. Hobby Lobby sales the primacolor colored pencils individually so you don't have to buy a whole box for one color.

Sorry to drift off topic. Streaking has been the hardest painting technique for me to learn, so you're better off without my advice anyway...:$.

Astroboy, your Falcon's looking great. Can't wait to see pics when you finish up.
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

The streaking for exhaust from the engine vents actually goes straight back on the 5 footer, not at the angle of the hull like the radial streaking

You can see it in this contrast boosted image

BFUYjaa.jpg


The 32" one they seemed to follow more of the radial streaking
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

CAPTAINCOX said:
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I used a similar technique, oil with terpenoid, for the really fine streaks I used oils and a ruler as a guide for the brush to get them nice and straight, sometimes also wiping the streaks with a wide flat brush almost dry but lightly dampened with turpenoid. In the end PanPastels for engine streaks and battle damage areas and so on. In my case I really studied the source material and tried to get those streaks as close to the one on the 32" studio model...not sure if I got them all right :p but it helped to get the overall Falcon look if you know what I mean.

To tell the truth I repainted that model like 3 times before I was sorta happy, but looking at it now I would probably do it a 4th time...I save that for when my Deago is all done;)
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Did you do a WIP thread for this?

SB
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

Robiwon said:
I used Burnt Umber oil on my Bandai. Random dots placed all over with a 5 zero brush. I then took a very wet (Turpenoid) flat brush and pulled it along the dot. I then cleaned the brush and repeated until I was happy with the resulting streak. I do a section at a time. If it appears I've gone overboard I'll go back with a dry flat brush and remove some oil.
Astroboy, I can't see your pics, blocked here at work. I'll check them out tonight at home.
Random dots..
http://i67.tinypic.com/2i6ml49.jpg

Streaked...
http://i65.tinypic.com/352nhtx.jpg

And the finished finish with some pastel chalk to further dirty it up.
http://i65.tinypic.com/53wxlv.jpg
http://i66.tinypic.com/fnber9.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/zmcays.jpg
http://i64.tinypic.com/2ih11ly.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2a0guh4.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/jj8qh2.jpg

To me, subtle is the key to a good looking Falcon.
Click to expand...

This is got to be my favorite MF paint job. Subtle being the key is correct. Home Run!
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

blakeh1 said:
The streaking for exhaust from the engine vents actually goes straight back on the 5 footer, not at the angle of the hull like the radial streaking

You can see it in this contrast boosted image

http://i.imgur.com/BFUYjaa.jpg

The 32" one they seemed to follow more of the radial streaking
Click to expand...
Thank you for pointing that out. It's often overlooked

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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

Unfortunatley I didn't see that picture until after I painted mine, so I wound up with the more radial type streaks from the engine vents. I keep meaning to revisit and make them more like the 5 ft one

I also like the more toned down weathering like you did on your 1/144. That turned out fantastic.

I think all the ones I've seen in the thread so far have accomplished that balance and are all pretty impressive

I used pastels and oils. Oils mostly for staining/filtering the colors

Pastels for most of the lighter streaks but a few oil streaks here and there for the more saturated streaking

I did a few coats, and would seal in between pastel coats

I also found going back over certain areas with a lighter pastel helped give it that faded look in many areas as well.

I thinks it's a pretty iterative process. You have to start with very light weathering and just slowly build up layers making sure not to go too far the other way. It's a fine line

For mine I might have went to subtle, especially around the engine vents
eG6rNY5.jpg

You can see how the lighting changes the effects with the difference between the brighter side and shadier side
hYnsOtf.jpg
 
Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

blakeh1 said:
Unfortunatley I didn't see that picture until after I painted mine, so I wound up with the more radial type streaks from the engine vents. I keep meaning to revisit and make them more like the 5 ft one

I also like the more toned down weathering like you did on your 1/144. That turned out fantastic.

I think all the ones I've seen in the thread so far have accomplished that balance and are all pretty impressive

I used pastels and oils. Oils mostly for staining/filtering the colors

Pastels for most of the lighter streaks but a few oil streaks here and there for the more saturated streaking

I did a few coats, and would seal in between pastel coats

I also found going back over certain areas with a lighter pastel helped give it that faded look in many areas as well.

I thinks it's a pretty iterative process. You have to start with very light weathering and just slowly build up layers making sure not to go too far the other way. It's a fine line

For mine I might have went to subtle, especially around the engine vents
http://i.imgur.com/eG6rNY5.jpg
You can see how the lighting changes the effects with the difference between the brighter side and shadier side
http://i.imgur.com/hYnsOtf.jpg
Click to expand...
Nice work! Someday I will finish my 1/72...

You know, one thing you made me think about is the idea of using darker, more definite streaks, but then going over them with UN white oil. It could tone it down and act as a way of blending them

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Re: Okay...the elephant in the room....millennium falcon streaking techniques

blakeh1 said:
The streaking for exhaust from the engine vents actually goes straight back on the 5 footer, not at the angle of the hull like the radial streaking

You can see it in this contrast boosted image

http://i.imgur.com/BFUYjaa.jpg

The 32" one they seemed to follow more of the radial streaking
Click to expand...

Anybody has a picture of the 5 footer bottom hull?

I heard this product has the bottom hull picture...

https://www.amazon.com/Crayola-Mill...=1469154756&sr=8-3&keywords=star+wars+crayola

But I don't have access to this product. Anybody?
 
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