Now *that* is a properly weathered AAT! Well done, Bish. I always thought they were a little too clean in the movie, should've looked like yours. Nice base, too. Will look great on your shelf. 

And thanks for kind words re: speeder bike. You, too, Bruce.

PB

Bish: Looks awesome!!! I love the worn area around the missile launchers on the lower skirt but great job all around. I've seen these put together by kids, kinda hard to remember how good they can look in the hands of good modeler! Kudos sir!!!

Ted: Always figured R2 did sabotage R5- he's a clever little . Though I wonder if the Death Star plans had ended up in the mitts of the Jawas would they have sold them to the Rebellion? The idea of the Jawas attacking the Death Star gives me the giggles...  

GamerA- makes me giggle too. Maybe a better matchup would be jawa vs ewok?  

Bish- I echo PB, you certainly choose appropriate colors.  And the scorching is pretty sweet as well.  It may have been on purpose but everything in the prequels is too clean.  You did it right. 

A little progress this weekend. I was disappointed how the color turned out on k2so's head after I mixed a batch of his main color following the instruction's paint guide.  It seemed too black.  I tweaked the formula a bit for his body and am happier with the results.  

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Cheers guys. I think i went a bit to far with the staining from the missile launchers, but decided to leave it.

Ted, thats coming on very well.

You nailed the black, Ted! K2 is gonna look awesome.

Agree you don't want him a deep inky black, or won't look right. It's a hard color to get right sometimes.

Ted, what colour did you use for that. Its almost looks like a very dark gun metal to me.

Bish,

I used black, blue, flat white, and flat base.  All tamiya acrylic thinned with their lacquer thinner around 40% paint/60% thinner. 

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Ted4321

Bish,

I used black, blue, flat white, and flat base.  All tamiya acrylic thinned with their lacquer thinner around 40% paint/60% thinner. 

T e d

 

Thanks, it must be the blue in there thats gives it that colour, it looks really nice.

Bish

 

 

Ted4321

Bish,

I used black, blue, flat white, and flat base.  All tamiya acrylic thinned with their lacquer thinner around 40% paint/60% thinner. 

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Thanks, it must be the blue in there thats gives it that colour, it looks really nice.

 

Thanks.  It's the first time I mixed paint with anything other than thinner.  I wish I could say i came up with the formula on my own but I just followed the instructions and found a paint cross reference chart online to convert to tamiya. 

I wish I was talented enough to find a shade of a particular color and start mixing paint and replicate it. 

The silver on k2's shoulder was mixed from gunmetal, flat aluminum, clear red, clear blue, and flat base.  My wife says they're just trying to get me to buy more paint. That can't be totally true . 

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Ted: Looks great to me! Black is a pain, if you go staight detail just 'disappears' into it. Like what you've got there. And metallic can be a pain too, what you've got looks 'right'. 

Bish- 

Can you please put me down for 0-0-0 as well? He just delivered today.  I hope I can finish in time.  

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I should have an update on K2 this weekend. 

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Will do Ted, and look forwrad to the update. I should be able to post some pics of my Striker this weekend.

Looking forward to updates!

Banda 1/5000 Star Destroyer should arrive tomorrow. Will be next project.

Look forward to seeing that PB.

Ted & PB: Ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh, those sound cool!!! Looking forward to seeing more. 

Well, here's a start--my presssshussssss arrived today (finally! Been waiting since pre-order back in Feb). 

The amount of detail Bandai crammed in for the scale is insane (as usual):

Still debating with myself whether or not to build with lighting kit, or not. Hm.

K2 now has a lower torso and legs.  Next will be hands and feet.  

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Looks great, Ted! 

Both K2S0 and the SD are both awesome!!! 

Sorry I really need to get some more done on Han, I've got a few other GBs that I really need to finish first though... 

First update on the Striker. Painted the pit grey, then after decals gave it a light wash and some dry brushing. Then fitted the painted pilot.

Then put the pit together and assembeled the main body.

Thats all for now. Goes together well. Doesn't say snap fit but i get the feeling you could build this without glue.

That looks really nice PB. I am looking to get a decent SD and the big Zvezda/Revell kit is a bit much for me, this might well be a good option.

Ted, K2 loks great, really like the colours.

Great start, Bish! 

If you need a smaller SD, the Bandai is def the way to go. It's only about a foot long, and has a lot more accurate detail than the Zvezda/Revell.

OK, got a good start on the SD. Decided not to light it for various reasons, primarily because although lighting sounds good in theory, I prob would rarely use it once the SD is sitting on the shelf (and I doubt the wife or kids will find it very exciting). 

Pondering how to approach priming and painting while I assemble everything.

Usual great detail from Bandai....

Nose greeblies:

Assembled the main hangar bay and rear:

Hangar detail:

Oh wow PB that looks sooooooo good!!! 

I built the vintage AMT SD kit way back in the '80s and this one beats that one to pieces!!! 

Yeah, it's light years ahead of the old AMT kit.  So you either get the impressive size of the Zvezda/Revell, or the smaller, more/better detailed Bandai. 

Thanks for the info PB. That deffinetly looks easier to handle and better detailed than the Zvezda kit. Looks really nice can't wait to see it come together.

Holy Space Cows PB, I knew the Bandai ISD was detailed, but that photo of the prow greeblies just blew me away!  That’s going to be an awesome model!

Regarding lighting models, yeah been there, done that.  I have lit a few models, but once the novelty wears off, the batteries come out and the kits sit unlit on the shelf.

And yet I still yearn to light kits.  I am a slow learner.  

I gotta get off the living room floor and head back to the bench!

Thanks, guys!

Got it assembled, and after doing so I could see how the lighting kit would've been just too much of a pain for the outcome, unfortunately (at least for me). Also be warned that a lot of reports of the front of the upper hull being warped upwards (almost like a duck's bill). I think mine might have been bent just a little, but I glue-welded it down onto the sidewalls firmly, so you can't really tell. Hope to start painting next week. 

Lol, Real G., definitely head back to the bench for the Bandai SD (or any Bandai SW kit, for that matter). Worth it!

Some crappy pics:

Fleet is growing lol: