Finemolds Slave 1 : Boba Swede Style (Customized)

A few months ago i bought this kit on ebay for 40 USD. While i'm waiting for Mr. Laws to produce my TS Commander i thought that i'd give this a go while i wait.


I first started by building the larger sections of the space ship, canons, wings etc. I also gave them and the pecies still left in the spruce a layer of Games Workshop (GW) Skull white as a primer and sprayed all the "unseen interior" with GW Chaos Black. This is because i intend to put LED's inside of it and i don't want any light bleeding through the hull.





Tonight i focused my attention to the rear radar dish assembly which is placed underneath the ship



Still left in the spruce and with a layer of GW Skull white for primer. Eventhoug it is not screen accurate i've fallen in love with panels and panel lines since i saw the SW exhibit and wanted some of that on my Slave 1 as well. I imagine that with a beat up and banged up ship like slave 1 is bound to have to replace some of the panels on the radar dish at some point... eventhough this is not shown on screen or on the actual screen used model. but like the thread says.. this is the customized version!



The weathering on this was done by first adding a watered down layer of GW Fortress Grey followed by several washes of GW Codex Grey. The "rust" was a GW Gryphonne Sepia with a really, really thin brush. The other panel lines where hand painted using the same brush but with GW Badab Black. Some of the streaks from the panel lines was also done with the same Badab Black. For the streaks along the circumference i dry brushed GW Badab Black as well as chruned it around in the centre to give it that "accumilated dirt" look. This was followed by a dry brush of GW Gunbolt Metal. I finished up with taking my really, really thin brush and adding spots of GW Gunbolt metal and quickly draging a finger over it to make a streak. This is supposed to be micro-impacts from depris in space. I also added some "rust" around some of the "holes"

After i finish the radar dish i intend to start working on the cockpit... and i've got a few suprieses there waiting for you... stay tuned. But have patiance.. i intend to take my sweet time with this one..

Oh.. if this is the wrong section, feel free to move it to the Sarlacc pit..

Wow, the weathering on the radar dish is superb. Your attention to detail is quite amazing my friend. I think I might just have to subscribe to this thread to keep up with your progress.

A fabulous start!!

I'm hoping to one day be able to assemble and paint up the Fine Molds Jango version of Slave1. My local hobby shop has one in stock, but the price has thus far kept many from snatching it up. I'll have to save up my pennies to afford it at $135 Cdn!!

I look forward to following your build up as I know that it'll push me to save, save, save!

Looking great man! Can't wait to see the end result!

G-Fett

Good starting.I will be follow your work.

Tonight i finished the radardish. I intend to mount some kind of magnetic lock on the back so that i can change batteries for the LED for the cockpit.

Anyway.. here is the finished radardish


I went over it again with a 10/0 brush with GW Mithril silver adding some additional silver scrapes here and there.

Larger pics are linked below:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dardish_06.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dardish_08.jpg

looking good, I have the exact same model but with it already pre-painted. One day ill repaint it but I just had to grab it because it was only $40 and Its the only one Ive ever seen under $80

The radar dish looks amazing. Great job.

Thanks for the compliments!


... and i just realised something.. in reality the streaks would go from the centre and out towards the rim since it's placed underneath the ship and so any liquides would run from the centre and out since the "bottom" of the bolw would be the highest point.. and not like it is now... from the rim towards the centre.. ah well.. weather and let be weathered i guess. (ref. Live and let live)

That is some fantastic detail you got there!!

i can't wait to see you paint up the rest of this thing...the detail is fantastic!

More progress:

As i said i was going to tackle the cockpit next... so i did..

All the cockpit parts were sprayed black with GW Chaos black. I then drybrushed them all with GW Gunbolt Metal to get that metalic sheen to it.





Here on the side panel you can see how the drybrushing really brings out the thin panel lines on the sides..



next i took a 1mm drill and drilled a few holes here and there... both infront of the pilots seat and in the wall behind it as well as in some other places. I can now place pieces of Fibre Optics into the controlpanel which i bought at a hobbystore.





At the moment i only had a red LED at hand to show the effect of the Fibre optic. I later plan to have 2 blinking LED and 2 normal LED to "power" the fibre optics inside Slave 1.

Moving on i then started weathering the peices with GW Gryphonne Sepia but saw that it was not strong enough. So i used watered down Tamiya paint Hull Red (nr XF-9) instead for the rust grime. This was applied att strategic places on the wall behing the pilots chair as well as inbetween the "floorboards" around the pilotseat.



I then used one of my Tamiya Weathering kits (nr A) and used the "light sand" to add some dirt on the floor.



I also added some behind and around the passanger seats.



... but what is this..?? just a suspicious rust stain or the last remains of some scoundrel who was unfortunate enough to cross path with The Fett who's life was not worth more alive than dead? You decide...



Anyway... as a finishing touch i applied small droplets of GW blazing Orange, Blood Red, Skull white and Bad moon yellow on the different pannels around the cockpit and interior.

Amazing detail, very well done. I really like the addition of the fiber optics as well. I can't wait to see more.

looking good!

I used to love doing models like that. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find them anymore. Good job so far, bro! I look forward to seeing it finished.

David.

Originally Posted by Boba Swede

next i took a 1mm drill and drilled a few holes here and there... both infront of the pilots seat and in the wall behind it as well as in some other places. I can now place pieces of Fibre Optics into the controlpanel which i bought at a hobbystore.

Now THAT is fantastic! awsome model amigo!

The lighting is AWESOME. I will be picking your brain when I start mine.

wow, very nice build. you sir ,are a talented fellow.

uhh it's really nice painting Boba Swede nice!

Great building skills, awaiting update
I have that same Fine Molds Slave One ordered from Japan but it has been waiting for 6 months now in the box. Yesterday I was motivated to start doing something with it. Finding this site and this thread motivates me more to finish it

Awesome!! Now I feel ashamed for doing my SLave-I...

:P

Great work, can' t wait to see this finished!!!

That is sic. Did you run those LEDs in series?

that is friggin awesome bro!

If ever there was a good time to start building mine it's now. I love the painting techniques you've used and will be following your lead. I won't be going down the L.E.D/Fibre optic route as my electronic skills blow in so many ways, but I can apply paint. Please post more pics and a rundown of what you did to what, as I find this kind of info invaluable when assembling a kit such as this.
Top notch work
Cheers

We are eagerly awaiting for updates... but we understand that u are busy with your family and all, having a baby takes A LOT of time .

if only i've the skills and patience like urs...GOOD JOB!!!
keep us updated

WOW thats cool!!!!! Love what you're doing with that!!!!!

Your attention to detail is astonishing, I also have just purchased my own FM Slave 1 and I was wondering if you were going to light the thrusters on the rear of the model as well and if you are how are you going to?

Great job I wish i can paint just like you, I paint GW models (WH40k), but you are far more better than me, especially with metal parts of models. Great and inspirational work!

This is an awesome build bra!!!!! Ya got an awesome skillset!!!!