Raven Morpheus
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Hey all
I'm working on a 1/43 AMT/ERTL/MPC X-Wing model kit (the flight display version, no pilot, terrible cockpit etc.), it's at the stage where I just have to add a few parts, and try to attempt some weathering (all decals have been added, the engines are lit (didn't bother lighting the cockpit, I just smoke glassed the canopy), and the main wings/fuselage are all sealed up).
However one of the parts I need to add is the R2 unit. The kit one looks terrible, for a start there's a seam line down the middle of the dome that I know will ruin the dome if I try to remove it, but I used it as a test piece anyhow. I filled his body and then drilled a hole up his backside so that I can stick him on top of the switch post for the LEDs to see if it what I wanted to achieve will work and it does indeed work - I can press down on him to turn the LEDs on and off.
Instead of using the kit part though I bought a resin R2D2 made for the DeAgostini Millennium Falcon from a seller on shapeways, the scale claims to be 1/43 scale, although I've not done a test fit to see if it fits into the X-Wing yet...
I'm sat here looking at it though and if I'm honest I have no idea how to start painting the details, i.e. all the little blue panels, especially on the head. Because I can barely make them out, despite the add on shapeways stating the model is in "ultra frosted detail". I don't imagine that will improve when I base coat it either.
So I thought I'd try and use decals, but I can't seem to source any or any useful artwork from which to make my own!
Would anyone know of any free artwork I could use to make my own, or if there are any 1/43 decals out there that I could buy?
TIA
I'm working on a 1/43 AMT/ERTL/MPC X-Wing model kit (the flight display version, no pilot, terrible cockpit etc.), it's at the stage where I just have to add a few parts, and try to attempt some weathering (all decals have been added, the engines are lit (didn't bother lighting the cockpit, I just smoke glassed the canopy), and the main wings/fuselage are all sealed up).
However one of the parts I need to add is the R2 unit. The kit one looks terrible, for a start there's a seam line down the middle of the dome that I know will ruin the dome if I try to remove it, but I used it as a test piece anyhow. I filled his body and then drilled a hole up his backside so that I can stick him on top of the switch post for the LEDs to see if it what I wanted to achieve will work and it does indeed work - I can press down on him to turn the LEDs on and off.
Instead of using the kit part though I bought a resin R2D2 made for the DeAgostini Millennium Falcon from a seller on shapeways, the scale claims to be 1/43 scale, although I've not done a test fit to see if it fits into the X-Wing yet...
I'm sat here looking at it though and if I'm honest I have no idea how to start painting the details, i.e. all the little blue panels, especially on the head. Because I can barely make them out, despite the add on shapeways stating the model is in "ultra frosted detail". I don't imagine that will improve when I base coat it either.
So I thought I'd try and use decals, but I can't seem to source any or any useful artwork from which to make my own!
Would anyone know of any free artwork I could use to make my own, or if there are any 1/43 decals out there that I could buy?
TIA
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