Michka's Star Wars project (Second vendor stall started 7/8/2017)

[Suber]

Why everything in this thread is so awesome?

[Michka]

Thank you Suber. Your threads make me envious on a regular basis. Actually, there's a lot of that going on around on this forum.
Thank you Grimmnar. I plan to pick up some more Bandai models online. There's no way I'm letting Revell stop me from getting decent Star Wars kits, no matter how hard they try.

Update time. I finished painting the Green Stuff repaired Landspeeder.






Not sure if anyone wants a painting step by step, but here's one anyway.
I masked up the windscreen and re-primed the speeder in Testors Light Earth. That's one of my four go-to primers. (The others being Black, White and Light Sea Grey) Then I went over it with a series of streaky coats of Orange, then a Safety Yellow, then a light Yellow. (These aren't the actual Reaper colors I used. My paints are upstairs and I'm feeling lazy.) I painted the red accents free hand. Then I sponged on some dark grey and steel, along with some of the yellows to brake up the pin stripes. Covered most of it with GW Seraphim Sepia along with some GW Nuln Oil in the panel lines and grill. Painted on some Silver at the edges for a chipping effect too.   

And here's a shot of the new speeder next to the one I painted earlier, and an Imperial Assault Stormtrooper. Scale looks good to me.



There will be some more Imperial Assault miniatures coming soon. Just as soon as Photobucket decides to cooperate. Let me know what you think.

[OSHIROmodels]

Cracking paint job, looks the bizz 

cheers

James

[Constable Bertrand]

That's what a speeder should look like

Cheers
Matt

[Nimrod]

Splendid work!
Excellent weathering on these speeders. 

[Michi]

That's what a speeder should look like

Exactly - it really looks like a used car from our own galaxy that isn´t well maintained, yet too valuable to let it die - therefore perfectly convincing.

[Michka]

Thank You jimbibbly, Constable Bertrand, Nimrod and Michi. I had a lot of fun painting that Landspeeder. Wasn't sure the yellow was going to work until I started covering it with stippling and washes.

Here are the Imperial Assault minis I talked about before. Decided not to crop them since that's were Photobucket and I were having troubles. First there's the Wookie Warriors.


And this is Biv Bodhrik, Vengeful Guerrilla. He's a player character from the Twin Suns expansion box.


Nothing special for these guys. Just some dabs of different browns on the Wookies' fur under a sepia wash and I toned down the colors on Biv. I really should go back and find a more exciting color scheme for the Guerrilla but I just wasn't feeling inspired by this guy. Also looks like I need to do a second dull coat.
More to come.

[Ironworker]

Excellent weathering on that speeder!  Nice figs as well.

[Michka]

Thank you Ironworker. So glad to see you're doing a Star Wars project now.

Update time. (If Photobucket lets me.) I'll start with a couple more shots of the Snowspeeder.




A number of people have given me ideas about how to fix the painting on the Snowspeeder. Unfortunately none of them agreed what was wrong. So I decided to fix the one thing that was bugging me about the paint job: the red stripes. The streaks of white weathering on the stripes was washing them out too much, which gave the model a dingy look. I wanted the thing to have that Star Wars used universe look, but at a certain point you have to put some colors that pop or it all looks dull. I also darkened the engine grill and harpoon gun on the back and painted in the steps on the side of the speeder. Finally , while I was breaking up the red stripes with a sponge effect I went back and sponged some off-white in places to lighten the whites. Overall I think it brings it closer to the original look, even if it isn't an exact match to the filming model.     

And here is a repainted Action Fleet Dewback.


I still need to cut up a WOTC Stormtrooper and make a rider for this guy. If I do repaint anymore of these I'll cut the rains down (I'm sure that's not how it's spelled.) and replace them with green stuff.

Finally a little what-the-hell project work in progress.




I didn't want to paint anything last night, but I wanted to do something. That's when I found a vending machine toy in my coat pocket. I've been buying these things for some time in hopes of using the bubble halves. I've already used a couple as domes for my Tatooine buildings. Last night I got the idea of making a window for a spaceship cockpit. I started cutting out strips of plasticard and gluing them on the outside surface. After getting the first stripes on I just added small angled bits to the stripes and edges to give the thing some details. I'm really happy with how it turned out, but now I can't decide whether it should be a cockpit window or the face of a mad computer.

I made one more discovery this morning while taking these shots. The Testors spray can caps fit perfectly into the lip of the clear half of the vending machine bubbles. Now I won't have to figure out how to make the body of the tube that the window goes on. And Photobucket let me post photos eventually. Not a bad morning

More to come.

[Michka]

Here is the Hired Guns pack for imperial Assault. Not much to look at, but at least they are done.



Sorry I haven't added to this thread in months. Too many half done projects at the moment, with nothing to show for them. 

[Michka]

In ancient time, I had a Star Wars project. It thrived and grew on a regular basis. Then I got lazy, and didn't upload pictures of things I was doing.
Well I want to change that, so I'll start off with the newest addition to the garage, the TIE Crawler. Otherwise known as the Century Tank. This is easily the silliest vehicle in the Empires arsenal. And that's saying a lot.



Shown with Imperial Assault Stormtrooper, for scale.



Here shown with an AT-ST, also from Imperial Assault. It looks a little big next to the IA AT-ST, but I still like it.

This is the miniature from the WOTC bendy plastic range. I did a bit of seam filling. Otherwise it was treated to the same weathering techniques I used for all my other Imperial ground vehicles. Let me know what you think. Hopefully I'll post something new before the next year rolls around this time.

[von Lucky]

Good to see you back at it (well, the sharing part), they've all been weathered suitably well.

[orc]

Great job as always ! good to see you back !!

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Excellently painted and modelled, even if the concept is very silly (every hundred metres the pilot has to climb out and clean the blaster barrels).

Okay I am only guessing the guns are under the cockpit.

[Andym]

Great project! Somehow I've missed this before!