Thanks, guys! I've been thinking about the paint job, and I've decided it looks almost like it's just made out of some weird mineral rather than painted... At first when I finished, it looked a little messy, so I considered re-doing it by just making a silver and black mixture and painting regularly rather than dry brushing, but then I thought about it, and thought that if I were a super rich bad-ass who has good enough tastes to keep a bonsai tree (yes, it''s in the novel, called a fire-thorn tree), I would totally have a ship made out of some bizarrely rare metal unpainted to show it off. Maybe I'm over-thinking about it, but whatever!
Spudd: you're right about the engines, but I don't know what I could really do with paint better than the sticker on there... My gradients are always a little messy looking, due to the fact that I haven't busted out the old air brush lately (though I totally should!). The only thing I could think as an improvement would be to throw in some LEDs, but it's such a tiny space I'd have a hell of a time getting the electronics in there without breaking the damn thing, and I really have no idea how to do that stuff at all yet, but if you have any other ideas or know how to do LEDs in a small space, let me know! (By the way, holy crap tie defender sweet!)
Ribbit: glad you like it!
Clonehead, glad you like it as well, the "commando" head is just the head that came on the standard clone, all I did was cut off the fin and repaint.
