B-Wing Starfighter

Christopher Mullins
First Ill start with some pictures of the trees. I tried to get some pictures to show how the details on it looks. It is molded in five colors, White, a medium blue gray, dark gray, Clear, and Red Clear. It has water slide decals as well as stickers, Since it will be a bit hard to match the color of the plastic with paint, there will be some slight color changes. It looks like it is made for modelers of all ages and skill levels. AN inexperienced modeler can put it together as is with the stickers because it is molded in the basic colors. Of course I would never be satisfied with that. I will be changing the colors somewhat, so it will be a it darker. MM Aircraft Grey, MM Flanker Blue Grey, and Revell Dust Gray will be the main colors and it will be weathered decently. I actually wanted to use MM Camouflage Grey but it seems pretty hard to find. It is the color I used for my X wing and I was quite satisfied with it.

Christopher Mullins
after doing some searching on the internet and finding a lot of different painting on the cockpit, I decided to mix and match, while also using some artistic license and taking some lessons from aircraft interiors to come up with the painting of this cockpit. I also painted the intakes, to show how the Russian Flanker Blue gray looks on it, it may be a bit to dark even, but being that I plan on making the whole thing a bit darker, like aircraft grey instead of the white, dust grey instead of the grey that it is molded in, I think it will be alright, and if Im not happy, Ill just have to look around for another color that is lighter.

Christopher Mullins
I ordered the LED\s for the engines, but they are yellow, I will be painting the clear engine insert clear red so it looks either red or orange, depending I guess on how much paint I use. Led was only about 10 Euro so I guess thats not too bad.

Konrad -
I'm definately in!

Christopher Mullins
Well, the aircraft gray is definitely not in, it is way too dark, if I cant find the camouflage gray somewhere, i might have to use Revell 371 light grey, it is a light gray color, but I really like the brawn tone of Camouflage gray better for this. The light that I ordered for it is Yellow, but I would rather the exhaust look orange or red, so I used Testors Clear Red on the nozzles where the light goes.

Stephan H.
Great project. Following. I got the bandai AT-AT kit and checking out the box content made me grin quite a bit. Best of luck with this one and may the force be with you😉

Christopher Mullins
i will probably be getting an AT AT as well

Christopher Mullins
Made quite a bit of progress on it since I last posted. Hard to take good pictures though when its always dark when I come home, so i can only take pictures to post when I have a day off. The LED unit came this week, just got to get some batteries for it. All the stripes areas and the orange circles I will be masking and painting myself instead of using the decals. My colors will be somewhat darker than what they look like on the pictures and decals, actually the Flanker Blue Gray is quite a bit darker than the color there, but I think its OK. So the 2 side wings are on, working on the bottom wing now, after that its mostly details and weathering, and I think I may be using the just frame no glass option so the inside can be better seen, haven't decided yet.

Javier Martin
if you are looking for color correlations I would recommend you the Vallejo brand:
acrylicosvallejo.com..s-vallejo-colors.pdf

Christopher Mullins
I dont use Acrylics and I cant find Vallejo around here and it is too expensive to order, so I have to use what I can get my hands on. That is why instead of the almost white color it looks like, the base color of mine will be light gray and everything a bit darker. I am not worried about perfect matches anyways, in different pictures it looks different anyways due to the lighting or other things.

Christopher Mullins
I haven't been very busy with modeling lately, but I have done some work in the last few months, one big thing was fixing the gap in the big canon on the bottom, that took some hours. AL that is left is painting the pilot, which I am not good with figures, and to put the canopy on. I got a couple of shots with the engine lighted too here. Think it looks pretty good. most of the painting is done, just decals need to be done, and the round orange emblems I will be painting on too.