oooooh, shiny!!

OOPS wrong universe. i plan to start my T2 HKT next Saturday at Wings Over The Rockies aero expo.

She's coming along great SM, looking forward to how she looks all done up!

Thanks Gamera!

This week I found some time to work on the Falcon and to begin my favorite part of the process... weathering. I started applying the first filter over the base color... Abteilung German Ochre. The base coat needed to be warmed up a little and the german ochre does the job. 

But before applying the filter I went in with a gundam marker and put all the little hash marks that appear all over the ship. Here you can see the hash marks and also the filter. The left side of the image has the first layer of the filter and the right side doesn't.

I also did the bulk of the painting of the death star tiles. I gave each one a slight different shade of grey. I still may go back and add different tonalites as well as do some weathering on them.

And here's the falcon with a couple more layers of filtering with german ochre. Warming it up inch by inch.

Thanks for looking. Comments welcome.

MF is loking great. Do you plan on adding oil or greae streaks, especially by those six grill thingees?

Definitely, yes. I'm laying on filters now. Then some discoloration. Then more discoloration to specific panels. Then streaking and rust. Then I'll paint the grey and yellow panels. Then black pigments.

That's my basic plan.

She's shaping up into a beautiful model there!

Señormodeler

Definitely, yes. I'm laying on filters now. Then some discoloration. Then more discoloration to specific panels. Then streaking and rust. Then I'll paint the grey and yellow panels. Then black pigments.

That's my basic plan.

i plan on doing similar filtering with my T2 HKT so i am following this closely. i'm thinking of starting with various metals; oily steel, steel, aluminum, chrome painting before the washes.

Hey all. Still in the process of weathering the falcon. Here's where I'm at with it:

Fantastic work. The filters you use really pay off! Just an awesome piece of work.

Yeah the Falcon looks fantastic!!! Other than the scanner dish and the base looks like she's pretty much done to me though!

Well I'm making progress on the Valkyrie. It has been slow going working with the led and fiber optics. Led are working, but some of the fiber optics broke during construction. Fragile little things. Still have more work to do but it is almost done. Here is where I am at.

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looks awesome Nuc!!

Great work on both the MF and the Valkyrie!

Thanks Rob and Mach71, with the GB end date fast approaching I thought that I should kick this into high gear. No promises but I do hope to finish this up this weekend. ( I have to get started on the Star Wars GB)

-Stephen

I've been doing a bit of weathering to the falcon but haven't posted in a while. My son is 6 months old so I've been preoccupied with  his overwhelming cuteness. But I'm hoping to have this build done by July 15th for sure. I've done the streaking and now I just need to do the sidewalls and then pigments.

NMT: Very cool, those LEDs and fiber optic cables are going to rock!

SM: Ahhhhh, wondered where you'd gotten to! The Falcon is looking great, love the different panels and weathering.

Nuc that looks pretty sweet!  I really like the updated look of the BSG ships.

Señor your Falcon is awesome!  I know what you mean about taking time to be with your kids.  I have a 4 year old boy and a 4 1/2 month old girl that seem to use their cuteness to make you suddenly realize you've spent all day with them.

I got around to starting my Jedi Starfighter tonight.  I lost track of how many times I watched the intro of Episode III to study the ship as Anakin and Obi-Wan fly it through the battle.  My son decided I should make Anakin's fighter, so I picked the rounded headrest for the cockpit.  The construction of the cockpit went pretty quickly and the only major problem I had was a seam line the two parts that hold the control levers.  I'm also surprised by the level of detail in the cockpit, since the other AMT-ERTL Star Wars kits I've built were sadly lacking in that area.

Wow that is pretty cool Bob- only built a few of the AMT/Ertl SW kits and yeah the interior detail was... um... lacking..

After watching the movie, it looks pretty accurate too.  The only thing that's missing (that I've noticed) is the targeting computer which is just forward of the control sticks.  They don't look like they'd be too difficult to scratchbuild though.

I was able to spend some time today to put the targeting screens together.  The backs are made out of styrene sheet, the frames for the windows are made out of staples, the knobs cut from a pitot tube from a destroyed Me-262, and the circular screens are some left over fuel can caps from my Hellcat kit I just finished.

that FALCON is very cool and so is the VALKYRIE .i have an LED kit for T2 HKT but have never done that which is why i haven't done anything. also a couple of contract builds to finish, and i am not doing that again.

thanks to everyone for keeping this going. i have been a somewhat absentee moderator.

Hi Silentbob, that is the best model amt/ertl  put out. I thought it was well detailed also. Mine is still sitting on the shelf waiting to be built, so I am looking forward to your build.

As for the Valkyrie I am calling this one done. Here are the pics.

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Hope you all like it.

Great work on the Valkyrie!

Ohhh, very cool- the engine lights look really good!

Finished up the cockpit, now on to the main assembly.

I was able to mask the clear parts and finish off the major assembly last night.  I'm a little nervous about masking the clear parts because I usually avoid doing it and brush canopy frames.  With this build it seemed unavoidable to me, so I took the plunge and masked it up.  I also drilled out the blaster cannons.  There was a pretty nasty gap all the way around the top and bottom halves of the fighter, so I filled that in with some putty and sanded it smooth.  I painted the insides of the S-Foils black and masked those off too.  

And this guy is starting to look familiar...

Looking very good there Bob, that curved canopy musta been a paint to mask.

Thanks Gamera!  It wasn't too bad for the most part, the worst was the big center section.  I ended up using a few pieces of tape to get it to cover it all.  I sprayed the underlaying grey coat today, so there's no going back now lol