Painting the x-wing 1/24 studio scale revisited

roback

Active Member

• Apr 26, 2012

• #1

Hello, everyone
A lot of people have asked Rodmart and me, trough PMs or emails, how we had achieved the painting job on the Revisited X-Wing prototypes we'd made; well, it was really a challenge, since our idea was to replicate the job done by the people at ILM in 1975-76.
First, we matched the PACTRA paint color, but it was too white for us so after a lot of research, Rodmart came up with the idea of painting the models with a base tone matte black first and then apply the PACTRA color, we think the result is really good and it looks pretty close to the original X-wings...
Here's a video with the process and some pics
Regards! :love

THE VIDEO HERE:
X wing studio scale ART2models.mp4 - YouTube


AND PICS HERE:

 

Zenwalker

Sr Member

RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Apr 26, 2012

• #2

Really nice job.

Would love to see a list of paints you guys used including the black primer.

 

cosmic_x

Sr Member

• Apr 26, 2012

• #3

I second that

 

roback

Active Member

• Apr 27, 2012

• #4

Hi!
The colour "white" for the X-wing is:
1 bottle Testors ( Modelmaster ): Flat Camouflage Grey
2 Bottle´s Testors / modelmaster ): Flat White
And dash of Flat Yellow, red, blue.

The Base tone is:
Flat Black primer paint.

lollollollol

 

moffeaton

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• Apr 27, 2012

• #5

I love your paint work so much!!!

 

Scott Graham

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RPF PREMIUM MEMBER

• Apr 27, 2012

• #6

Oh yeah, I thought it looked a little camouflage grey-ish. Thanks for sharing that. It really is close to the color!

roback said:

Hi!
The colour "white" for the X-wing is:
1 bottle Testors ( Modelmaster ): Flat Camouflage Grey
2 Bottle´s Testors / modelmaster ): Flat White
And dash of Flat Yellow, red, blue.

The Base tone is:
Flat Black primer paint.

lollollollol

Click to expand...

 

roback

Active Member

• Apr 27, 2012

• #7

More found pics....
:behave

 

Last edited: Apr 28, 2012

atom

Well-Known Member

• Apr 28, 2012

• #8

Your work serves as a reference for me very much.:thumbsup

Thank you for sharing it.

 

masterjedi322

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• Apr 28, 2012

• #9

So pretty...

Sean

 

roback

Active Member

• Apr 29, 2012

• #10

thank you very much for your words!!!!!!! :lol

 

tek2graphics

Sr Member

• Apr 30, 2012

• #11

Love the pics!!!!! Makes my mouth water!!!!! Great job!!

 

h3pilot

Active Member

• Apr 30, 2012

• #12

My first post so I'll keep it short.
WOW!

 

Robiwon

Master Member

Gone but not forgotten.

• May 1, 2012

• #13

I love your "paint booth", set model on desk, face fan toward open window, turn fan on, spray model. If you photoshop an old warehouse scene behind these I'd swear they were from ILM.

Makes me want to break out my V2 and start building her now.