Has anyone built this model? I’m currently building it, and working right now on the Battle Droid.
I’ve been weathering the Droid according to the instructions, and it just doesn’t look right. It almost looks overdone.
Does anyone have any pics of their completed Droid? Did you follow the instructions for the weathering?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks.
Here’s a not-very-good photo of mine:
I didn’t want to use the STAP so I reposed the figure and bolted it to the wooden base. I drybrushed the heavy-wear areas with flat aluminum paint, and added a dark wash and some pastel powder here and there.
Starship Modeler (www.starshipmodeler.com) offers a cast-resin blaster rifle that’s in scale with the figure if you’d rather model yours as a ground trooper.
Matt Usher @ FSM
That’s awesome Matt, thanks for the info!
I think I’ll paint over some of the weathering, and tone it down a bit. I’ll take your approach Matt, and apply a dark wash over the panel lines.
Thanks again.
I had to play with the color quite a bit on mine. The droid was painted a base color mix of sand and white. I used several earth tone pastels and colored pencils for the weathering. The stap was painted to match the box photo by mixing yellow zinc chromate and red until I got that rusty orange color.
The best suggestion is to skip the instructions and paint it the way it looks right to you. There are a few good reference pics on line but the stap and droid combo seems a little limited. Just remember to get us some pics of yours when your done, we live for pics [dinner]
Glad to help!
I used Testor British Gulf Armor Light Stone (No. 2136) for the droid’s base color. I had to go back and double check; I used a silver art pencil for a lot of the wear and tear, and I used a soft lead pencil to outline a lot of the panel lines.
I hate to mention it, but there’s a whole chapter on building this model in my book, A Galaxy Far Away: Building Star Wars Models. You might find it helpful. The book’s just gone out of print, by the way.
Matt Usher @ FineScale Modeler
has anyone else noticed that if you look at the stap straight on, it kind of looks like Dory from “Finding Nemo”
I have an unfinished one, I think I may paint it blue and black:)
^^^ You’re so right! ROFL!
Here’s mine…