The Millennium Falcon
Finishing the hull painting
Yesterday I weathered the hull with Sepia shade to give the ship a dirty and old look.
Today I Drybrushed the hull to knock back the brown of the Sepia shade and to add a bit of detail to the underside.
My weapons of choice for today's drybrushing. Make-up brushes are perfect for drybrushing larger items, and the margarine lies are used as pallets - I use the time to remove excess paint from the brushes.
Now I add coloured panels to the top hull to break up the base colour – 5 minutes on the internet gives you 100 versions of how the authentic Falcon was painted – so these inform my placing of the panels and their colours, but I use some artistic license to paint it now I think it will look best.
The paints I used to paint the coloured panels. 2 thin costs of the watered down darker base colour, then overpainted with the lighter shade letting the darker shade show at the edges. Then firebrand aged with the 2 off-white shades.
The circular heat vents and the deeper recesses are shaded with GW nulin oil to take their colours towards black.
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