That’s some nice work, especially the weathering . 

thanks again for your comments guy’s ..

Excelent work PB.

OH WOW!!! Love those!!!! Esp the A and X-wings, the Imperial SD, and the Nebulon frigate. But they all look incredible!!! 

Thanks for kind words, guys!

So for this GB, will be continuing Speeder bike, Nebulon, and then Bandai's Star Destroyer w/lighting when that ships in later in the year. And who knows, maybe group will be motivation I need to get PG Falcon off the Shelf of Doom. 

Gamera

OH WOW!!! Love those!!!! Esp the A and X-wings, the Imperial SD, and the Nebulon frigate. But they all look incredible!!! 

Thanks, Gamera! 

Dang, PB. That's quite a collection.  You've got a firm grasp on Star Wars-y weathering no doubt. I'm not sure about 0-0-0's story, but he looks awesome. 

Nice work.  Looking forward to the speeder bike. 

T e d

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Gamera

OH WOW!!! Love those!!!! Esp the A and X-wings, the Imperial SD, and the Nebulon frigate. But they all look incredible!!! 

 

 

 

Thanks, Gamera! 

 

Whoops I meant to say B-Wing, not A-Wing. Still same sentiments! 

Ted4321

Dang, PB. That's quite a collection.  You've got a firm grasp on Star Wars-y weathering no doubt. I'm not sure about 0-0-0's story, but he looks awesome. 

Nice work.  Looking forward to the speeder bike. 

T e d

Thanks, Ted! Appreciate the compliments. :-) Triple zero is the murderous version of 3P0 that appears in various sources, including Marvel's Dr. Aphra comic series (which I'm reading now).

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Gamera

OH WOW!!! Love those!!!! Esp the A and X-wings, the Imperial SD, and the Nebulon frigate. But they all look incredible!!! 

 

 

 

Thanks, Gamera! 

 

 

 

 

Whoops I meant to say B-Wing, not A-Wing. Still same sentiments! 

 

Aha, no problem. 

Thats a great line up there PB, some really nice build.Love the Nebulon, who's kit is that?

What are you working on at the moment, i can get it added to the roster.

Nick, really nice job on the X-Wing, thats come out great. Thanks for taking part, i'll get the front updated.

Bish

Thats a great line up there PB, some really nice build.Love the Nebulon, who's kit is that?

What are you working on at the moment, i can get it added to the roster.

Thank you, Bish! The Nebulon was 3D printed by a guy over on RPF. I paid too much and had some other issues but....now I finally have a Nebulon. Still need to finish painting and weathering it, which is a challenge (why I'm only about halfway done). 

Working on the Bandai Speeder and making good progress, so put that on the roster. Thanks!

After several week i finally got the paint on the AAT. I ditched the hairspray and just decided to chip off the Tamiya paint with a scalpel blade and some sanding. So heres the hull.

And the turret, already started some chipping.

Should be to long before i get some more pics.

Your work on the turret looks awesome, Bish.  I didn't know there was an AAT kit out there (sorry if I missed background on your project, late to the party). 

Did you have problems doing paint chipping with hairspray?

Front page updated, please let me know if i am missing anything.

Cheers PB. Its an AMT kit from the 90's when they also did the STAP and Anakins Podracer.

When i applied the tamiya over the hairdspray and had issues with the paint in certain areas. It looked like the paint had a reaction to somthing and didn't adhere in some areas. So i washed it all down and went with this method. Not sure if it was the hairspray or somthing else.

Thanks, Bish! Ah, the AMT kit, forgot about that one. 

Next build after speeder bike will be either Bandai's new SD (pre-ordered, but might not be available until October) or second Bandai B-Wing, which I'd like to do in one of the colorful liveries I've seen online (if anyone has some suggestions, lemmeno).

Strange that you had issues with chipping. Wonder if it was in fact the hairspray? I use tamiya for chipping all the time and works great. What paint did you use for your base coat?

PB

I used Alclad for the base. I have never tried hairspray before. And the issue was only in patches, which makes me think it might have been somthing else.

Is that the 1/5000 SD with the lighting kit.

Bish, I had the same problem with paint adhearing to my kit as well. I just repainted it. I also did the chipping using an xActo knife

I did go over the areas Steve but it just happened again. I have resorted to a blade, sanders and a bit of thiner. Going for some heavy chipping and weathering.

Bish

I used Alclad for the base. I have never tried hairspray before. And the issue was only in patches, which makes me think it might have been somthing else.

Is that the 1/5000 SD with the lighting kit.

I just used Alclad as base coat for the speeder bike, and had no problems. So could be the hairspray? I read online at some point that the cheaper the hairspray, the better. 

But, yeah, the preorder is the 1/5000 SD with the lighting kit.  I was hoping Bandai would make it bigger, but I'm sure it'll still be awesome.

Bish

I did go over the areas Steve but it just happened again. I have resorted to a blade, sanders and a bit of thiner. Going for some heavy chipping and weathering.

 

Looks neat Bish! I too love the chipping on the turret. 

Why do I have the sudden urge to keep saying 'Roger, roger?' 

Bish, it is looking good looking forward to how you finish. It would be interesting to see some form of German armor camp on it.

PB, agree with everyone, very nice collection. What scale is the nebulon in?

NucMedTech

Bish, it is looking good looking forward to how you finish. It would be interesting to see some form of German armor camp on it.

PB, agree with everyone, very nice collection. What scale is the nebulon in?

Thank you! 

Nebulon is two feet long, so I think works out to about 1/500th scale.

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NucMedTech

Bish, it is looking good looking forward to how you finish. It would be interesting to see some form of German armor camp on it.

PB, agree with everyone, very nice collection. What scale is the nebulon in?

 

 

 

Thank you! 

Nebulon is two feet long, so I think works out to about 1/500th scale.

 

Oh wow, I didn't figure the Nebulon was quite that large! And 3D printed she must be insanely heavy. I'd be afraid she's break along the central spar. 

And expensive! I had my personal ship from Star Trek Online 3D printed and it wasn't cheap. I'm not going to be nosey and ask prices but I bet you paid a pretty penny. 

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NucMedTech

Bish, it is looking good looking forward to how you finish. It would be interesting to see some form of German armor camp on it.

PB, agree with everyone, very nice collection. What scale is the nebulon in?

 

 

 

Thank you! 

Nebulon is two feet long, so I think works out to about 1/500th scale.

 

 

 

 

Oh wow, I didn't figure the Nebulon was quite that large! And 3D printed she must be insanely heavy. I'd be afraid she's break along the central spar. 

And expensive! I had my personal ship from Star Trek Online 3D printed and it wasn't cheap. I'm not going to be nosey and ask prices but I bet you paid a pretty penny.  

Yeah, it's pretty big, so I inserted a wooden dowel the length of the ship. Could use it as a baseball bat now. :-) It was a few hundred dollars US, but I think I overpaid. The guy was selling a 3-foot version, so I asked if he could size it down to two feet. 

He agreed, and after waiting for weeks, the box finally arrived like this:

Yeah. Not what you would expect for the $$$ I paid. In his defense, it was around the holidays in the US and I think the US postal service was mostly to blame. BUT--he used barely any packing material, so several of the parts were broken (it came in eight pieces for assembly). Luckily, nothing I couldn't fix with a little CA. 

The other issue is that I think because it was the first time he reduced the scale of the original CAD files, the printing quality was wonky and some of the parts were malformed/unfinished. :-( He agreed to re-print one of them, but that took another few weeks. 

In sum, it's kind of a miracle I got the Neb to this point. 

Wow looks like the delivery team played soccer/football with the package!

Sad to hear some of the parts weren't molded properly, looks good now though!

Thanks!

Making good progress with the speeder, should be done soon:

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Bish

I used Alclad for the base. I have never tried hairspray before. And the issue was only in patches, which makes me think it might have been somthing else.

Is that the 1/5000 SD with the lighting kit.

 

 

 

I just used Alclad as base coat for the speeder bike, and had no problems. So could be the hairspray? I read online at some point that the cheaper the hairspray, the better. 

But, yeah, the preorder is the 1/5000 SD with the lighting kit.  I was hoping Bandai would make it bigger, but I'm sure it'll still be awesome.

 

I did use a very cheap hairspray. But i am pleased with the results i have by just scrapping and rubbing. so its worked out well.

I am sure it will be, i am still in 2 minds about getting the big Zvezda kit, so will be looking forward to seeing the bandai kit.