Dianoga-class Assault Starfighter
All the pieces off the printer and cleaned up - its a pretty simple kit. Canopy has been printed in clear resin and polished
Test fitting the pilot - had to remove the dashboard to get him to fit
Framework glued to the canopy glass
Cockpit painted
Lots of detail in there but not easy to paint as you can really only access from the front. The printed file has an open strip at the top of the cockpit, maybe for lighting - I closed that with a piece of white styrene sprayed with a pearl gloss coat to look like a light panel.
Cockpit back wall also painted
Pilot figure painted
Cockpit and pilot weathered and pilot glued in place
Dash put back in place. I ended up having to glue it at an angle to miss the pilot's arm but I think it looks more realistic like this
The rear panel contains the engines but has large holes for lights. As lights aren't my thing I decided to close them up and some Wave verniers were a good fit
Wave vernier pieces glued in place - back view
Front view of the engines with the verniers installed
Back piece being glued to the main body - some clamping was required!
Cockpit glass glued in place
All 4 wings attached with 5 minute epoxy
Front view after a couple of rounds of filling, sanding and priming
Rear view after primer
These are the colours I'm planning to paint the ship (bottom left)
Main body coat done and started on some detail painting - back view
And front view
Decided to try something new for me - chipping using Maskol applied with a sponge
Also the first time I've designed and cut my own masks - here the masks have been added for the wing flashes
Green part of the wing markings painted
Second round of masking - for the black sections
Black sections painted - I'm pretty sure that there will be some touching up as I don't think the boundaries between the green and black all lined up perfectly
All masking removed and some touch-ups done
Time to let the paint dry completely before weathering
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6 July 2024, 10:13 -
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This is a ship from the prequel-era Star Wars: Starfighter game, one of the ship flown by a prate faction. The model is 3D printed from a file found on Thingiverse, posted on there by Zarkus Model Kits. The original file is scaled at 1/144 so I scaled it up by 200% to fit my preferred 1/72 scale. I did a test print of the cockpit and 200% turned out to be too big to fit my 1/72 pilot figure. Scaling the file at 176% ended up fitting the pilot nicely, so all pieces were printed at that scale using an Elegoo Mars 2P and Siraya Tech Fast Navy Grey resin
