Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter
Lets start with a box shot. The usual Revell side opener, really wish they'd use top opening boxes so you can keep the sprues in there and get at them easily.
Front engine assembled and primed with Mig Ammo One-Shot Black.
Base coated with Vallejo Metal Color Magnesium, ready to pick out some details.
Windings painted metallic copper, pipes black-grey and the intake fan metallic steel. Drybrushed with the steel colour and some small dabs of Nuln Oil wash for some shadowing.
Cockpit parts primed with One-Shot Grey
Side walls and back sprayed Metal Color Aluminium then used Black-Grey and Green-Brown for the panels and seat back.
Cockpit base sprayed Aluminium and picked out parts with Metal Color Magnesium, Black-Grey and again, Green-Brown for the seat.
Side view of the Cockpit base
Mando himself! Base coated with Dark Brown, details picked out with Metallic Chrome, Black-Grey and a small bit of Yellow on the fingers.
Cockpit dials base coated Black-Grey
Drybrushed with Metallic Steel and Decals added. Buttons picked out with Ferrari Red and Light Sea Blue
Cockpit parts painted, decaled and satin coated. Ready for assembly
Cockpit assembled
Add one Mandalorian (also decaled and satin coated)
On to the engine housings. Primed Gloss Black then sprayed with Metal Color Duraluminum. End parts hand painted with Metal Color Magnesium.
Fitted the engines to the housings
Top fuselage primed Gloss Black then base coated Metal Color Duraluminum.
Top fuselage masked.
Metal Color Magnesium sprayed and the masking removed.
Another bit of masking to give a line around the nose section.
Metallizer powder used on just the nose section to make it look/shine differently to the rest of the fuselage. Did a lovely job of highlighting where the masking tape had been!
Bit more polishing and that looks better.
Grogu painted. Beige for his coat with light brown cuffs and collar, light green for the skin colour. Eyes gloss black primer and the base black grey.
Inside detail parts, base coat Aluminium with some detail picked out in different metallics.
Tail section, Duraluminium and Magnesium
Engine intakes, painted Duraluminium and polished with metallizer.
Engine housings fitted.
All the front engine parts fitted. The 'tails' have their tips painted Magnesium and the middle section only polished up with metallizer.
Starting to fill the desk!
Added the decals to the fuselage using just water. Slightly tricky as I'm avoiding clear coats to keep the metallic finish and metallizer but worked out nicely. Great decals Revell!
Close up of the decal across one of the open areas. They look fine to me.
Canopy masked up and ready for primer and paint.
Canopy painted and masking removed.
Fitted the canopy and the cockpit.
Second, Oh why! Revell logo moulded into the bottom part. Who on earth thought that was a good idea to put that on the outside. If it's really needed then put it somewhere that can't be seen afterwards or affects the painting.
A small bit of sanding and that's much better!
Gloss black primer and Duraluminium Base Coat on the bottom
Masking ahead of spraying the Magnesium parts
Masking removed and all the right colour.
Added the guns and the air intake (!) on the top section
The last bit of assembly on the ship so that's all complete.
Stand has been painted Gloss Black Primer and glued together with Krystal Klear Canopy glue.
All Complete!
Masked off the engine from the 'tail' for a bit of Smoke Oil Paint drybrushing.
Masking removed, nice and dirty 'exhaust'
Same Oil drybrushing on the rear engine.
Starship Filth Oil wash mixed up and used on the Magnesium 'inner' parts to darken them up a bit. And that's this one complete! I'll do a nice 360 against a clean background later.
Comments
51 18 December 2023, 11:35
CaptGPFBeautiful! The execution of the metallic painting and the restrained weathering is perfectly balanced.
29 December 2023, 18:18
Gareth LloydThanks all for the comments and likes.
Jan.. it is a nice kit, very little fit issues the only "problem" I had was with the underside. Apart from Revell moulding their logo into it (which needs sanding off), It's one big part but only has 4 or 5 small contact points to glue it so it needed a bit of tape to keep it flush and a short while to dry. That's the only part that seemed that it could have more and better contact points all the rest were fine.
The decals were really good, I avoided clear coats to keep the metallic finish as it was painted so the decals were applied straight onto the paint with just water and they were fine with no silvering at all as the carrier film is cut nice and close to the decals so they worked out nicely.
30 December 2023, 07:49
jan zumackMy Girlfriend will kill me, but i think i buy it at the next chance. 😂
30 December 2023, 13:13
CaptGPFLOL! I agree with Jan! I think I Revell should pay Garett for this build - cuz I am now considering this kit as well! 😀
30 December 2023, 15:42
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I've got 2 weeks off for the Christmas break so the next on the bench is Revell's new Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter
