Fine Molds 1/72 MF build with death star tiles

[FrightMaker]

Job well done - and well deserved award! Keep it going!

 

[Archie Opteryx]

Congratulations on the award!


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[senormodeler]

Thanks guys!


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[cobusp]

This week I found some time to work on the Falcon and to begin my favorite part of the process... weathering. I started applying the first filter over the base color... Abteilung German Ochre. The base coat needed to be warmed up a little and the german ochre does the job.
But before applying the filter I went in with a gundam marker and put all the little hash marks that appear all over the ship. Here you can see the hash marks and also the filter. The left side of the image has the first layer of the filter and the right side doesn't.
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I also did the bulk of the painting of the death star tiles. I gave each one a slight different shade of grey. I still may go back and add different tonalites as well as do some weathering on them.
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And here's the falcon with a couple more layers of filtering with german ochre. Warming it up inch by inch.
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Thanks for looking. Comments welcome.

Beautiful work. The paint chipping is also convincing. Humbrol masking fluid and sponge - right?

 

[senormodeler]

Beautiful work. The paint chipping is also convincing. Humbrol masking fluid and sponge - right?

Yep.

 

[senormodeler]

Beautiful work. The paint chipping is also convincing. Humbrol masking fluid and sponge - right?

Yeah I think so. It’s been about 10 years since I built this but I believe that’s what I used.