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STAPs finished

March 7, 2024

Tutoring 5

Skill 5

Idea 5

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7th March 2024

The STAP riding droids were painted in the same way as the rest of the B1s. For the STAPs themselves I knew that I didn’t want to paint the usual brown colour, and knew that clone war era STAPs should be blue. So that’s what I went for. A couple of thin coats of blue over all the bodywork.

After that it was a thinned down blue wash followed by a drybrush to pick out the details and panel edges. Followed by picking out the guns, struts, engines etc in metallic.

However, I wasn’t overly happy with the engines, so decided to go back in and paint them in blue.

Happy with that change I then went on to attempt adding some markings in a very light grey. At first some markings on the front (didn’t manage to get them the same size on both…) then some rough CIS markings on each side of the body. I also added some yellow to the inside of the engines, and a further ‘go faster’ stripe to the lower body of each of the STAPs.

Finally it was a case of adding some battle damage and wear marks. I used wildwood contrast for some initial dark marks, scrapes and chips, then picked out some finer marks with silver metallic.