B-Wing Bandai 1:72

This is more or less what I used on the cockpit - which offers tons of detail! The only things missing are Future (for a gloss "in between" finish) and the Model Color that I used for the pilot's seat. Mr Mark Softer was used to tame the two decals that went on some raised structure.

The pilot is still work in progress. I'm not much of a figure painter as you can see. His suit is still glossy and sticky because I used some very old Revell enamel colour - which I probably didn't stir well enough.

I tried using Revell Color Stop to simulate some paint chipping. First the parts where airbrushed with Vallejo Model Air Gray Base. When this was dry I applied some small spots of Color Stop here and there, using a sponge. After that the light grey color (50% Light Gull Grey + 50% White as per Bandai's instructions) followed and the Color Stop was rubbed off.

B-Wing in a box: By now all parts have been separated from the sprues and are in different stages of being painted and weathered.

There are many sub-assemblies that you can work on individually. Something I'm not used to (at least to this extent) when building my "regular" plane model.

Different metal colours have been used for the engine nozzles and guns. Some weathering still needs to be applied.

As suggested I applied a wash to the figure and highlightes some parts of the cockpit. The cockpit and the engine unit are now finished.

The gun pod needed a bit of filling. First I thought I could assemble the pod without the gun, but that proved to difficult as the gun part is designed to snap-fit into the pod.

Therefore I needed to mask the gun before I could paint the sanding seams.

The decals worked nice. The only difficult part was this threepart insignia decal (the insignia covers some raised structure on the wing). I recommend to start with the middle part of the insignia and then add the left and right parts to it. Some decal softener is vital for this task!

Oil and enamel washes were applied - the parts look far more interesting now!

After some more weathering with pigments the main sub-assemblies were put togehther. The parts needed to be modified at their joinings a bit so I could glue everything together at this later stage. Out of the box the big vertical wing would need to be attached to the fuselage a lot earlier.