Kylo Ren's Shuttle and some other Titanium and HotWheels ships

Been looking at Titanium series and Hotwheels for possible extra ships. Pretty happy with my repainted shuttle though I need to give some coats of dullcoat. The plastic wings that extend out seem to flake paint very easily. Just got the 1st Order Hotwheels dropships today. Wanted to compare the Titanium series versions 1st but haven't been able to find any in local stores despite looking around for a month so caved and got these. Not sure if they just need a wash to bring out detail or full paint but I think they scale well. Also got some Clone Wars Titanium dropships cause they look cool. Maybe I can have some boarding actions in epic games since I have 2 for each side. Also had to take some pics of my converted Gundam Type89 Base Jabber [that's really the kits name] with the Gozanti. They look like they go together well.

Poe Damaron's Black X-wing

Back early 2016 everyone was repainting T-70s as Poe's black x-wing. Of course with so many people doing it FFG went and announced their own version after I painted it. Oh well.

Imperial Raider

As soon as you see the huge engine at the back of the Raider model you know it was meant to be airbrushed in some glow, they kept it pretty shallow and not very detailed. Before I started on those though I added a heap of little rectangles of masking tape on the top panels of the ship and did some grey spraying to clean up the underside where the factory wash had pooled in ugly ways and to add some variety of tone to the panels. After that I did several drybrushes of light grey then white. Then I removed all the masking tape masks. Then added shading with soft black and strong tone washes. Either tracing detail or shading a panel area then softening the edge using a q-tip. After all that I did the engine glows using ultramarine blue, arcane blue then white.

YT-2400 Outrider

Had this one since it came out but only got around to spraying the engine glow. About time I dirtied it up some. I masked to add some stripes too since that seems popular but did mine in low contrast grey.

N'dru Suhlak Hotrod Z-95 repaint and WIP Pirates

Inspired by the N'dru Suhlak card and the prodding of the N'dru repaint thread also that I had 3 new Z-95s fresh out of the packs that I hadn't repainted yet I got to work doing 2 of them as scum pirates (they're not finished yet) and N'dru with his awesome hotrod flames and shark teeth paintwork.

I started by painted the 3 Zeds in a light grey then did a wash all over of a mix of Airbrush thinner and Dark and Strong Tones from Army Painter, Then I drybrushed with the light grey again then a lighter grey to bring out all the detail. Then I went in with Strong Tone again to darken certain areas I wanted to emphasize as being darker on the engines and the wing joints to them.

For N'dru I started his fancy paintwork by painting the mouth shape and eyes white, I also painted the engine rings and exhausts white so the gold yellow would be brighter when I applied it later. Giving it over night to dry I went in the next day with a Pigma Micron pen and outlined the eyes and mouth and then drew in the teeth. After that I painted the inside of the mouth with a dark crimson the got out a nice bright red and started painting flames before filling in the area around the mouth and nose. That was then darkened a bit on the underside and around the nose cone to bring out the detail. I painted in the engine details in the same very very old Citadel Sulfur Desert Yellow that I used on the X-wing markings. I was then hijacked to make terrain with friends for the rest of the day (the Mantic building kits turn out quite nice, love the Mars Attacks ruined brick stuff) Today I came back and added edge highlights and chips and scratches plus some extra stripes on the guns for some extra detail then glossed the canopy.



Now the pirates, you can see I from the pirate that doesn't have checkers yet I painted the canopy frames, the guns a bit, the nose cone. Then painted the canopy black again, that will get a gloss coat later. For the checkers I thinned the red a lot and using a very light touch I painted lines vertically down the fuselage to get the spacing worked out 1st, then I painted the horizontal lines and filled in the squares. The artwork on the card having a diagonal checker pattern is a headache, I think I'll paint a few more checkers at the top of the pattern then have to start on the other one. i'll get around to hlghlights and scratches after the patterns are done.















you can see in the last shot I was thinking of just keeping it simpler and making the checker band vertical down the fuselage instead of the angle, I can clean those left over lines in grey but they're barely visible.