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Dave Savard
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Bandai 1:72 X-Wing being done as General Antoc Merrick in Rogue One. Sub assemblies are ready for penciled in panel lines and then Tamiya Panel Line Accent washes in both black and brown. As usual the sub assemblies were based in Mr Surfacer 1500 Gray followed by SMS Classic White. SMS Haze Gray was used for several of the panels and the other panels were mixes of SMS colors to get the shades I was looking for. The blue fuselage stripes and wing markings are Gravity Ford Grabber Blue straight from the bottle. Panel lines in progress on the wings
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Thanks Dave. All 6 will be the Bandai 1/72. There are several releases (3, IIRC) with different decals and amounts of pre-colored parts. Some of the kits have all the lower panels of the upper fuselage in red and some have white sections in place of the several of the red depending on which one it was released as. Bandai kits can be built out of the box as snap-tights but I build them glued with Tamiya Extra Thin so I can fix the join lines. Bandai plastic doesn't react well to enamel washes unless you glue (which seems to relieve the stress of the friction joining of the snap fit) and paint all exposed surfaces. I also thin the pins of the joints so that I can realign if needed, but these kits are so well engineered and extruded that very little is ever really needed.