SS Tie Bomber Kit

[daverep]

(06-19-2012, 04:17 PM)jase72 Wrote: Wow Dave your ripping ito this.
I like what your doing man so take your time.
I have heaps of parts for this build.
I bought a kit patern for this but it was released before I had a chance to do it so was dropped.
Is another project I should just build up that is sitting in the draw.
Its all kit parts too.
So back to your build mate.
Take your time.
You have the right idea & just pay attention to the details.
Make sure you post lots more pics.
Gotta sayI love the red cockpit man.
Thats killer right there.

Jase...coming from you THANK YOU!!

It's been an interesting build I have to admit. I think eventually I'm going to scratch this one as well. With getting the Falcon donors together I'm starting to get some kits for this one as well so I may try my hand at this too. It seems like it may be "fairly" easy to do. But I say that now...LOL!

Here are some more pics...I primed the model earlier this evening.

Before priming:


And after...


Nice big ole blob of primer there on the cockpit...crap!



I decided to rescribe some of the lines on the fuselage parts thinking that when I painted, they would fill in. Yeah...probably should have left those alone. I suck at scribing. Especially on a curved surface! And I even used a straight edge too! Yeah...need to work on that.

Now that I have the primer on, I have to fix some areas that I screwed up puttying and, quite obviously, some of my crappy scribing work.

I've already mixed my final coat together hoping that it's close enough to the filming model. Used the ref pics here as a guide. I hope I'm close. I'll post some final pics when I get it airbrushed. I've started thinking about replacing the supplied base with a custom one.

Again, thanks for looking and any comments that you may have!
-- Dave