Alrighty folks. 'Tis the season for building the Bandai Y-Wing, it seems, and I'm jumping on board. I recently built the Bandai 1/72 X-Wing as Blue Leader, and I needed a Red Jammer to go with it, so that's what this is going to be. I'm using the pics over at Modeler Magic that Steve Neisen took a while back of the original Red Jammer as reference, while looking at the Studio Scale Jammer that Jason built a while back as well, and sort of coming to a happy medium between the two. I also haven't decided yet if this will be an "idealized" Red Jammer (since it wasn't really completed yet when it got shipped over to the UK in '75), or if I'll be adding a red ring around the other engine cone as well. We'll see. With that said, I'm not going to be super picky about the parts: this will be an OOTB build, with red paint instead of yellow. Anyway, enough meandering. I had some time to work on it yesterday:
This kit has some pretty great details for how freaking small it is!
Masking off the canopy windows... I want a version with glass, and one without, so that required me to do some masking!
Getting it all laid out to paint.
It's interesting that Bandai decided to mold these parts instead of making them a decal, but it shouldn't surprise me too much, because of the red molding on the X-Wing. Oh well. Gotta paint it the base coat and then the red color (that I still need to decide on. Any ideas?), because there is some chipping in the red. one thing that I hope to do with this build is to paint as little coats as possible onto the model, for the sake of preserving the details. I ended up with about 14 layers of paint on the X (I wanted those darn massive, gaping panel lines to go away!), and thus some of the details went pretty soft. Oh well, you live and you learn.
All painted up. I decided upon using Model Master FS36492 Light Gray. It's warm-ish, but not as warm as Camo Gray. The blue canopy and engine parts are now gray, as are the yellow plastic markings.
Now we come to the L'Eggs parts, where there is some chipping going on. Both sides are different, but they share a black coat underneath it all (I think). Sprayed black, and then added some salt for the chipping. Crossing my fingers on this one.
And that's where I've left off this weekend. Hopefully I can get more done tomorrow!
SB
This kit has some pretty great details for how freaking small it is!
Masking off the canopy windows... I want a version with glass, and one without, so that required me to do some masking!
Getting it all laid out to paint.
It's interesting that Bandai decided to mold these parts instead of making them a decal, but it shouldn't surprise me too much, because of the red molding on the X-Wing. Oh well. Gotta paint it the base coat and then the red color (that I still need to decide on. Any ideas?), because there is some chipping in the red. one thing that I hope to do with this build is to paint as little coats as possible onto the model, for the sake of preserving the details. I ended up with about 14 layers of paint on the X (I wanted those darn massive, gaping panel lines to go away!), and thus some of the details went pretty soft. Oh well, you live and you learn.
All painted up. I decided upon using Model Master FS36492 Light Gray. It's warm-ish, but not as warm as Camo Gray. The blue canopy and engine parts are now gray, as are the yellow plastic markings.
Now we come to the L'Eggs parts, where there is some chipping going on. Both sides are different, but they share a black coat underneath it all (I think). Sprayed black, and then added some salt for the chipping. Crossing my fingers on this one.
And that's where I've left off this weekend. Hopefully I can get more done tomorrow!
SB
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