Do you mean that you hand painted the lighter colour? Or the darker?Thanks! The chipping on the Slave 1 is painted on with a fine brush. Seeing as how small this model is, I felt that it was the most efficient way. The rods are 1/8" i believe, and are hollow in the middle. What I did was cut off the connection point on the stock stand and glued it into the rod, that way it fits perfect. The bases that come with the kits are just fine, but I prefer the more "film model" stand look.
Here are a few more shots! Just need to do the bottom of the ship.
http://i.imgur.com/mWDMCrP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dWlgXmC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PSZ4ZYZ.jpg
These tend to look better in person, as due to their scale, the camera exaggerates the details a bit.
Holy smokes!!!Actually, everything on this model has been hand painted, well except for the 'wings' which I sprayed a layer of white on, over the primer! I've been able to thin the paints down enough so that there are no brush strokes to be seen, and the pastel weathering works quite well right on top of it. Basically, the main 'body' color first, and then the little lighter weathering details on top, after the the first layer is all dry of course.
If you look at the earlier in progress photos of the slave 1, you can see how on the lower dome part of the ship, the dark red overlaps the central grayish strip from the brush (that's gone now after I then painted the grey stripe in). I find using brushes on these small models work really well.
I'm using regular artist acrylics, which when dry, is very tough. But the stuff paints on like smooth butter, which is really nice. Basically I approach these things as a kind of 3D painting. Not all that different than painting a picture.
Honestly? I have yet to see a totally hand painted Star wars model that I'm into. No only is yours hand painted, but it may be the nicest slave 1 I've seen.No problem! I'll upload some bigger pics soon. I need to take more in progress photos! I tend to forget as once I get into the work, I just forget. I am however planning on getting the snowspeeder kit hopefully soon, so I'll plan on doing a play by play kind of post for that one! I use basically the same techniques on all these kits anyways.