Saturday, February 20, 2016

TIE-ing It All Together

Star Wars Armada has got some fairly nice pre-painted ships, but it's squadrons are bare plastic.


Silver TIE fighters?

These are pretty good sculpts and (even with some warping) are cast well.


Running away???






They are functional and easily identifiable, but next to the painted ships, they sort of stand out.



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.



Pew Pew Pew





I first tried out a Vallejo Black Gray base, with Citadel "The Fang" (formerly Shadow Gray).



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.



Much better.


I changed my base color to black and the results were quite positive.




The interior sides of the wings lack sculpted detail, so had to be painted on freehand


So much better


Yippee



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