Star Wars Armada has got some fairly nice pre-painted ships, but it's squadrons are bare plastic.
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| Silver TIE fighters? |
These are pretty good sculpts and (even with some warping) are cast well.
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| Running away??? |
They are functional and easily identifiable, but next to the painted ships, they sort of stand out.
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| Not lookin' silver, here! |
There's some variation in color of the fighters in the movies. Sometimes they are grey, others a grey-blue. I decided to try out a bluish grey.
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| Pew Pew Pew |
I first tried out a Vallejo Black Gray base, with Citadel "The Fang" (formerly Shadow Gray).
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| Stay in formation |
The contrast of colors is not strong enough, either on the wings or in the cockpit window.
I decided that (closeup photos not withstanding) it wasn't going to look good enough on the tabletop.
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| Much better. |
I changed my base color to black and the results were quite positive.
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| The interior sides of the wings lack sculpted detail, so had to be painted on freehand |
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| So much better |
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| Yippee |
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