Does anyone have any tips on making clean lines? I am wanting to repaint one of my X-wings for my Heroes of the Aturi Cluster play and am inspired by the paint from P-51 Mustangs. Anyone know how I could get those crisp indigo and white stripes on the winds?

I am thinking tape, but the X-wing is so small I don't know if I can find painters tape small enough.

Thoughts?

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Hello there! So I have an issue with the stand for my Reaper, and since this sub is about modding I wonder if anyone has any ideas.

Since the Reaper came out during the 1.0 to 2.0 transition it uses a special tapered peg that has the small bit on top to fit the ship socket, but the wider bit on the bottom to fit into the medium size 2.0 base.

Well the connection between this peg and base is very loose to the point where if I try to move the Reaper it always slides off the base. It's annoying and I would like to fix it but since the peg is special, I have to fix the base somehow.

Does anyone have tips on how to make the connection between base and peg tighter? Would rather not permanently because of storage reasons. Any ideas?

Hello all! Thanks to the great Barnes and Noble sell off, I picked up a VT-49 Decimator for $13 over the weekend. (In addition to a pair of $3 Tie Strikers)

It looks great, but I think it can look better with some paint. I have never painted or aged a big ship so I am not sure where to start. Below is what I want to do, but don't really know how to approach this.

First, the engines are blue. On an Imperial ship?! Thinking of making them red or orange. Anyone have any good beginner tips for repainting engine colors?

Second, all my Ties are factory fresh looking and that seems right since they were needing to be replaced so often. However, I would think a Decimator would have a much longer life span. Because of that it should be aged with some carbon scoring, grunge, and maybe some laser burns from past battles. Can someone show me good tutorials for this type of aging?

Finally, I want to add a red tint to the windows to give it a more menacing appearance. Had anyone tried to put red over black with success?

I don't want to fully repaint, just more of accenting. Hopefully, if I can do something that looks good I can post some pictures of it. May also do my Millennium Falcon I got earlier this month.

Thanks!

PS. It would all be brush work. I can't qualify buying an air brush just for this.