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Another great model from GN particles! check it out

First I have to apologize to my readers for my extended break from blogging. At the start of August our new baby boy was born, so as you can imagine our house got busy!

And as part of house being busy, we’ve had some ongoing renovations and reorganizations, so my usual spot for taking photos is not available, so I hope my quick hand-held shots in my office work ok.

I did find a little time to enjoy some models, but as I didn’t have time to get into anything too complex, I decided to work on some of the new Bandai Star Wars kits.First I went with C-3PO. The dark areas are painted with Tamiya gunmetal, and the small details hand-painted in. I did a candy coat with Tamiya clear red on top for the front and rear red wires.

The gold and chrome of the kit is good as is, but C-3PO is hardly ever clean in the movies, so I went in with my black oil paint mix as a wash for panel lines, and then to make oil stains. I’ve always liked the Storm Trooper design. The kit is great and the white plastic looks like the white plastic armour of the actual costume, so I only painted the dark sections. I wanted a very matte black, but not a perfect black, so I went with a coat of Tamiya gunmetal followed by a light coat of thin black, and then Alclad flat on top. Darth is practically all black, but there’s black and there’s black, so how to make it all stand out? I liked the use of the gunmetal and black on the Storm Trooper, so Darth got the same treatment. I was careful to leave the glossy black parts as is, as again, as moulded they look just great. The colour details are all hand painted with Tamiya clear colours. Boba Fett was always a favourite, but it’s also the kit that needs the most work on the paint job. The moulded plastic colours were not that great, and of course, he requires a lot of weathering to get the look right. The green armour is a similar green mix to colours that I’ve used before on Geara Doga, using Createx pearl green with some white and black to reduce the saturation.

The orange parts were painted first with Tamiya yellow, and then a coat of Tamiya clear orange. Before I put the clear orange on I used Tamiya weathering master to add some of the shading.

I thought that Alclad grey primer would be just perfect for the jumpsuit, and as it’s a touch “blue” it was just right, especially to give just enough contrast to the slightly warmer colour of the flak-vest.

I started the flak-vest with the same Alclad grey primer, but with great care I sprayed on the thinnest yellow and red paints to subtly warm up the shade.

For the leather belt, I started with Tamiya gunmetal, then used a very small amount of red paint with least pressure I could get away with, pulling back the trigger just slightly so the paint came out almost stippled. Before dry, I did the same with some black paint to blend up the colour. Then when dry, a coat of Tamiya clear orange turned the red/black into brown!
 Of course, Boba Fett is not Boba Fett without his backpack!

 

The weathering was done in layers. I used Tamiya Weathering master for most of the weathering. I really like their oil-stain for shading. Some parts have a black oil wash. The chipping effects are done with a wet paint brush into the Tamiya Weathering master silver.Here are all the Star Wars characters together, dwarfed by PG Unicorn standing behind them!

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