Mandalorian N-1 Starfighter

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December 18, 2023
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.
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December 18, 2023
Front engine assembled and primed with Mig Ammo One-Shot Black.
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December 18, 2023
Base coated with Vallejo Metal Color Magnesium, ready to pick out some details.
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December 18, 2023
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.
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December 19, 2023
Cockpit parts primed with One-Shot Grey
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December 19, 2023
Side walls and back sprayed Metal Color Aluminium then used Black-Grey and Green-Brown for the panels and seat back.
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December 19, 2023
Cockpit base sprayed Aluminium and picked out parts with Metal Color Magnesium, Black-Grey and again, Green-Brown for the seat.
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December 19, 2023
Side view of the Cockpit base
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December 19, 2023
Mando himself! Base coated with Dark Brown, details picked out with Metallic Chrome, Black-Grey and a small bit of Yellow on the fingers.
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December 19, 2023
Cockpit dials base coated Black-Grey
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December 19, 2023
Drybrushed with Metallic Steel and Decals added. Buttons picked out with Ferrari Red and Light Sea Blue
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December 20, 2023
Cockpit parts painted, decaled and satin coated. Ready for assembly
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December 20, 2023
Cockpit assembled
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December 20, 2023
Add one Mandalorian (also decaled and satin coated)
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December 20, 2023
On to the engine housings. Primed Gloss Black then sprayed with Metal Color Duraluminum. End parts hand painted with Metal Color Magnesium.
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December 20, 2023
Fitted the engines to the housings
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December 22, 2023
Top fuselage primed Gloss Black then base coated Metal Color Duraluminum.
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December 22, 2023
Top fuselage masked.
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December 22, 2023
Metal Color Magnesium sprayed and the masking removed.
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December 22, 2023
Another bit of masking to give a line around the nose section.
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December 22, 2023
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!
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December 22, 2023
Bit more polishing and that looks better.
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December 24, 2023
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.
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December 24, 2023
Inside detail parts, base coat Aluminium with some detail picked out in different metallics.
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December 24, 2023
Tail section, Duraluminium and Magnesium
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December 24, 2023
Engine intakes, painted Duraluminium and polished with metallizer.
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December 24, 2023
Engine housings fitted.
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December 24, 2023
All the front engine parts fitted. The 'tails' have their tips painted Magnesium and the middle section only polished up with metallizer.
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December 24, 2023
Starting to fill the desk!
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December 27, 2023
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!
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December 27, 2023
Close up of the decal across one of the open areas. They look fine to me.
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December 27, 2023
Canopy masked up and ready for primer and paint.
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December 27, 2023
Canopy painted and masking removed.
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December 27, 2023
Fitted the canopy and the cockpit.
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December 27, 2023
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.
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December 27, 2023
A small bit of sanding and that's much better!
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December 28, 2023
Gloss black primer and Duraluminium Base Coat on the bottom
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December 28, 2023
Masking ahead of spraying the Magnesium parts
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December 28, 2023
Masking removed and all the right colour.
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December 28, 2023
Added the guns and the air intake (!) on the top section
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December 29, 2023
The last bit of assembly on the ship so that's all complete.
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December 29, 2023
Stand has been painted Gloss Black Primer and glued together with Krystal Klear Canopy glue.
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December 29, 2023
All Complete!
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December 29, 2023
Masked off the engine from the 'tail' for a bit of Smoke Oil Paint drybrushing.
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December 29, 2023
Masking removed, nice and dirty 'exhaust'
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December 29, 2023
Same Oil drybrushing on the rear engine.
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December 29, 2023
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.
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51 18 December 2023, 11:35

Sam S
Taking a seat 👌🏻

18 December 2023, 14:48

Torsten
😎, follow 👀

22 December 2023, 12:15

Thomas Espe
👀

24 December 2023, 11:40

Spanjaard
very nice

29 December 2023, 10:49

Torsten
Very, very well done 😎

29 December 2023, 13:44

CaptGPF
Beautiful! The execution of the metallic painting and the restrained weathering is perfectly balanced.

29 December 2023, 18:18

jan zumack
Cool, nice build. Is that Kit good?

29 December 2023, 20:21

Gareth Lloyd
Thanks 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 zumack
My Girlfriend will kill me, but i think i buy it at the next chance. 😂

30 December 2023, 13:13

CaptGPF
LOL! 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

jan zumack
😂😂😂

30 December 2023, 16:29

Gareth Lloyd
Where do I send the invoice 😀😀😀

30 December 2023, 16:57