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1/2256 Medical Frigate and Tantive IV - directorcass - 03-15-2010
For my first post I thought I would share my Anigrand Medical Frigate and Tantive IV. These are wonderful kits and it's a shame they are no longer available. PM me for info on it.
The Frigate was painted flat black then a heavy mist of flat grey was sprayed. After that a lighter mist of flat white was applied. Weathering was done with pastel chalks of various colors. I added various stretched sprue antennas to the Frigate as well as some small photo etched metal pieces I had left over from an A-10 build.
The Tantive IV was treated to a slightly different painting process as I wanted them to be dissimilar even though they are both "white" The Corvette was painted flat black and then sprayed gloss white. It was weathered with a sludge wash. I added the top and botttom laser canons with stretched sprue and a photo etched metal antenna replaced the resin kit piece.
The shuttle that is seen in one of the pics is the bonus kit that comes with the 1/2256 Star Destroyer kit. It is less than half an inch long. The wings and sail are photo etched brass for scale thinness. Very impressive for such a tiny model. I'm still working on the SD. It takes a while to run 800 feet of fiber optic. It will make its debut at Wonderfest this year.
In the last pic is the little Odessey Slipways 1/50,000 SD. A neat little kit that is about an inch and a quarter long.
Enjoy the pics. Click on a pic for a full size image.
http://picasaweb.google.com/116877382961951625239/AnigrandMedicalFrigateTantiveIV#
RE: 1/2256 Medical Frigate and Tantive IV - 427 Cobra - 03-16-2010
" You've done a great job director!" I love the weathering,and colour that the medical frigate, and blockade runner have. I just wonder why these were offered in such a small size?
RE: 1/2256 Medical Frigate and Tantive IV - directorcass - 03-16-2010
(03-16-2010, 01:17 AM)427 Cobra Wrote: " You've done a great job director!" I love the weathering,and colour that the medical frigate, and blockade runner have. I just wonder why these were offered in such a small size?
I think it had to do with several factors. One, 1/2256 is a very popular scale for small kits, they also wanted kits that were in scale to the larger kits they did, the SD and MC-80. It would be nice to have a large scale frigate or Tantive, but, I love the fact though that these are all in scale to my 28inch Star Destroyer.