Corona Self-Isolation made me build a STAR DESTROYER

Oh, no – never post that question in a modeling forum! Everyone has one opinion, and everyone’s opinion ist the only correct one. Of course.

No, I’m interested in truth and facts and care shit for opinions, so I studied the subject matter myself and came to the following – nuanced and therefore truthful – conclusions:

The color of your Star Destroyer depends on what you want to go for. You can do a general representation of a Star Destroyer, in which case a neutral mid-grey is appropriate, or you could go for a screen-representation, in which case a slightly darker blueish mid-grey would be appropriate. I went for a studio model-representation, so a very light grey, almost off-white, was the way to go. I choose this route for two major reasons: The very light grey gave me the option to maximize contrast in the deepest recesses and thereby bring out the volumes and details more than if I went any of the other two ways, and it also allowed me to go for a very precise, albeit subtle panel lining and panel shading.

I started by undercoating the whole sub-assembly in USAF grey. Then I gave the whole model various light zenithals with an off-white, thereby creating natural shading in the volumes and details. I then lightly drybrushed all the detailed side-sections white to bring out the details even more, and gave the whole thing another single light zenithal to bring it all together. With that done, I went in with a brush and used dilluted white to highlight all flat raised details.

I also started to do panel lining. I used a very high-tech method for this: A very sharp, hard pencil. 😀