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Lord Vader’s TIE Fighter

Lord Vader’s TIE Fighter

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Project Blog by sundancer Cult of Games Member

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About the Project

So the Star Wars Weekend is around the corner and all my SW:L stuff is build and painted. Project closed! Well it would be closed (and pointless) because FFG for some reason delayed everything to 2020 what would have made sense for me to buy and build. But it isn't. Read on to see why.

This Project is Completed

Ups, I did it again

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Completing the build and not taking very much pictures. Since the last time masking off parts didn’t go well with me I thought: let’s do that again! Because grey just doesn’t fit the TIE fighter.  So I got myself a can of Army Painter Wolf Grey (what is actually blue’ish grey) and used some painters masking tape and a sharp knife. I taped the hatch and the two openings in the main body. Now, if anything would go wrong it would flock-up my inside paintjob.

Ups, I did it again

And it went better then the last time. The rest was putting black on the wings and smush all together.

Doesn’t look that bad. And since I have covered all clear plastic with brush on varnish I may give the whole thing a spray coat for protection. Maybe. But for now, it’s done.

What? 2020 allready?

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Like @warzan stated in his “state of hobby” in todays “Pointless View” I could get up to do hobby…. but yesterday I did. Here are the results.

Yay masking stickers!

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I always struggled with painting clear plastics and I was very happy to see that Finemolds supplied masking stickers. Ok, I have to cut them but better then nothing.

If I could use them right. Most went well but at some spots paint came under the sticker and the paint won’t come off again.

So today I’ll be scraping gently with a tooth pick and will mend the damage by using a clear varnish to hide the scratches. I hope.

And helping me through the weekend are these magical items. Cheers!

I ain't got nothing to paint!

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Some years ago my lovely wife gifted me a Bandai AT-ST (perfect scale for SW:L) and a Finemolds TIE Advanced Prototype (1:72, a bit small in scale) model kit and now is the best time to build them. Being a more complex build I guess I won’t finish it on the weekend but I will do my best.

For this project I’m going to build the TIE fighter. Mainly because I already have a very different project in mind for the AT-ST.

So this is with what I will start.

I ain't got nothing to paint!

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