Topic: Goldleaderone's Custom Vehicles

[spudafett]

is that my z-95 and t-wing by chance?!  I can't wait to see what you did with those!  The anticipation has been killing me!

[Goldleaderone]

is that my z-95 and t-wing by chance?!  I can't wait to see what you did with those!  The anticipation has been killing me!

Yup, those would be the ones! The A-Wing you sent me is gonna be used for the R-22.

[spudafett]

schweet.  I can't wait to see what you do with them.  Especially the a-wing.  I forgot all about that one!

[Goldleaderone]

Good news, I've been working on another custom - the R-22 Spearhead.






As you can see, its far from being completed. There's more to be painted, lines to be straightened out, and I would like to add a few new pieces. Painting the white arrow at the front was a big pain, so I took a file and just filed down the little bumps, and it worked great (still needs to be straightened out).

Bad news, I ran out of white paint lol. I ordered Warhammer Skull White Spray Paint, and I need to get the 4 fl. oz. of the same color. Once I get 1 of the 2 I can continue. The spray paint I need for the majority of my customs (T-Wing, Z-95). I'll probably be rotating between customs, as I get bored with doing one, then another after one is completed. I'm banking on getting the paint the middle of next week hopefully.

[clonemedic96]

looks good so far, sucks that you ran out of paint, im almost out too 

[Tamer]

Loving those side cannons on this. Too bad you ran out of paint!

[Goldleaderone]

Loving those side cannons on this. Too bad you ran out of paint!

Yea I thought I had more paint, but turns out I barely had enough for that white arrow. Also, those cannons were added by spudafett, big thanks to him for the trade again.

[spudafett]

lol... I was going to say....
"HEY... That looks familiar....!"

love it!  The blue aditions look great!  I can't wait to see what else you do with it.  I'm especially interested in how you wind up repainting the t-wing and z-95

[Clone_General_1977]

Nice Work Dave.

[Goldleaderone]

So now that I await my skull white paint, I've been working on the Rebel Alliance Shuttle. I had an extra shuttle laying around, and the shuttle spudafett sent me had no weapons or cockpit window. Not a problem, as when this is completed I can just simply switch the wings off. Anyway, this was just a practice run.

Here's the process: I filed down the wing so everything was leveled off. Then I printed out a Rebel Alliance logo, cut it out (with a razor blade, why I don't know - next time scissors), traced it with pencil then painted it in.

Results:  I have to file it down more, and gotta cut out the logo with scissors. Good thing for practice runs. Anyway, here's what I have from the practice run:

[spudafett]

sweet...

but....

have you thought about making one of the tyderium's more acurately scaled?  The wings should actually be longer/taller.  I've seen someone else do it in the a/f scale a long time ago and it looked amazing.  It'd take alot of scratch building and sheet styrene though.  I wanted to do one but for some reason here lately I've lost all motivation to work on the a/f ships (one reason you wound up with the z-95 and the t-wing so easilly lol).

anyway.  The insignia doesn't look too bad.  You could clean that up free-hand with some white paint around the edges to straiten it out.

OR you could use a method that I've done in the past to get dificult symbols like that done

Paint the entire wing red,
then use masking tape and cover the wing with it, trace your insignia onto the tape, then using an exacto knife cut out the insignia and peel off the masking tape AROUND the insignia.   This should leave a masking tape insignia on the wing.  Spray paint over all of this with your white paint and once it dries remove the remaining tape... you should be left with a good looking insignia.

[Goldleaderone]

Spud, I really like that last idea with the masking tape, I'll have to try it.

As for the longer wings, probably not. I'm basing this custom off the Rebel Alliance Shuttle seen in the PC game X-Wing. I might look for a slightly bigger logo, I had a tough time with it at the top.

[hangarbay94]

Tha shuttle wing is looking great, I am also liking the a-wing, looking forward to seeing more images...

[FialaFernbrugg]

The A-Wing looks really great and the shuttle wing with Rebel symbol looks also top-notch.

Can't wait to see the finished ships.

[Goldleaderone]

So I posted over at Rebelscum my list of Action Fleet customs, and someone suggested I try an Assault Gunboat. I remember the ship from the X-Wing series for the PC. I looked into it and came up with an idea to work by. This will take a lot of kit bashing, but I think I got this planned out good.





A:  Body from an X-Wing
B:  Top wing from a shuttle (Lambda versions)
C:  Side wings from a shuttle (Lambda again)

As for D and E, I'll probably have to look for those parts separately. For D, I was thinking maybe the wings from an X-Wing, but they might seem a bit too short.

What do you guys think?