Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Star Destroyer finished - COMPLETE

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Republic Venator Finished

If I may suggest...after primer coat and good sandown, airbrush thin but black panelling. Follow the pattern, may take a loong time to get nice after that, some coats of your main light gray. The panel lines will slightly be a darker shade and maybe stand out a little more. It'll give that "new" look with some depth.(I use this technique with airplanes on the moving surfaces) Or you could get those watercolors for kids that they have at Michaels, i think they are tempura paints? they come in a big bottle. You could lay your main color down and mix up a 50/50 batch of tempura with water and wash in the panel lines. since it's watercolor a warm damp cloth will wipe away any excess.

Hmm. That's a good idea, just to add some depth. I don't have any plans on painting any specific panels different colors, but a black wash is a really good idea - I'll probably end up using that.

How are you doing your Imperial Venator? Are you going to "ding up" the engines with some silver dry brushing? Or are you planning on leaving them in "like new" condition, just paint over them with one color?

 

[TialFiden]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Republic Venator Finished

Not sure yet. Haven't decided. Since the Empire repainted everything after the fall of the republic, i'm sure they cleaned up the engines a bit, but we'll see

 

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Republic Venator Finished

Not sure yet. Haven't decided. Since the Empire repainted everything after the fall of the republic, i'm sure they cleaned up the engines a bit, but we'll see

Yeah. I'll post pictures when I finish this model - I should be done within a day or two.

 

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Venator finished.

The Dominator is up in the first post.

 

[gunnr2nd]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Venator finished.

Really cool! Keep up the great work

 

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Venator finished.

Really cool! Keep up the great work

Thanks! I'm looking forward to seeing the big sister join the fleet. Lol.

 

[TialFiden]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Venator finished.

good work on the ships! just a question...what color did you use for the imp?

 

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - Imperial Venator finished.

good work on the ships! just a question...what color did you use for the imp?

Thanks. And as for the color...as a base coat, I used Revell Plastic Gray. Lol, I didn't paint a base coat, and I mixed some extra special silvery gray paint for the weird hinge things along the edges of the decks.

 

[Jm419]

Re: Imperial Battle Fleet - COMPLETE - Imperial Star Destroyer finished

I'm proud to announce the newest addition to the fleet - the Vanquisher, an Imperial-II - Class Star Destroyer. She's in scale with the Liberator and the Dominator, and I have a few shots of the new battleship along with her two older sisters.

I had a lot of work to do when she arrived - but personally, I think it was worth it. She's a beauty:

Now, I painted her in a very whitish-gray color, which I think mimics the ILM models pretty well. With a black base-coat and a light gray dusting, she looks pretty darn close to the Avenger. What's interesting about the color of the paint, though, is that it looks white against a black background and gray against a white background. Take a look, here.

Pencil for scale.

You can see what a massive model it is, well over two feet long (about .71 meters, for our metric friends), and I had to put her on the couch in order to find a black background large enough to get the effect across.

Not only is it a massive kit, it's well detailed, too.

Lots of little parts. I can almost sympathize with Julien's full SS build, but mine's nowhere near as difficult.

Want to see her with the rest of the fleet?

With her "big" sister, the Dominator.

The whole fleet, together at last.

It's quite a nice deal. I'm pretty proud of her. Let me know what you think - and you Rebels better watch out.

 

[Hegemony]

Wow, now there's a thing of beauty. How do you intend to mount them?

 

[blakeh1]

Awesome! I was always curios to see how a same scale Star Destroyer would look next to the 1/2256 Venator

 

[Jm419]

Hey folks,

Sorry for the late reply. I made a custom stand for the ISD, but the two Venators have yet to be displayed properly.