Tie Striker

Not sure what happened to the first Album I made so lets try again.... Started with the cockpit, painted with Mig Black-Grey, Gloss Coated then decaled and finished off with a Blue-Black wash then a Matt Varnish. 

Inside of the front of the cockpit. 

The outside of the front. Painted Mig Grey Shine with Starship Streaking 'wash' 

Masked off the wings for my favourite Tie wing paint mix of Gloss Black Primer with Metallic Artic Blue - it makes them shimmer in the right light. 

Wings primed and Glossed with Pledge 

Fuselage assembled and Primed with Mig One-Shot Grey. 

Attempted a pre-shade using the Mig paints but it spidered really badly so switched to Vallejo. Painted over the mess I'd made before with Pale Blue Grey and pre-shaded again with Panzer Dark Grey. 

Pale Blue Grey base coat added - I thinned it down and sprayed on in really thin layers until the pre-shade was looking as I wanted it but I think I may have done one too many coats 😄 

Assembled the wings with the painted solar collector panels. 

Masked those off 

And primed the frame with One-Shot Grey. 

And base coated with Pale Blue Grey then glossed. 

Got on with the fusealge and popped off the front window and sprayed that Panzer Dark Grey and hand painted the "clasps" the same colour. Glossed the whole thing then added the decals (all three of them!!) and did a pin wash with Mig Starship Wash then a satin coat to seal. Here's a view from the front. 

And a view from the side. 

And the other side and rear. Someone mentioned on another album about enamel wash "eating" the Bandai plastic - I had that issue on the "leaf spring" on the back. It snapped where it was plugged in so I just glued it back. 

Wings had a wash then a matt coat and the masking was removed so that's the wings complete. 

Some filters on select panels and lighting some of the raised bits using a White Oilbrusher. 

View from the other side. 

Final matt coat and the masking was removed so that's the fuselage all done. 

Final Assembly.