Crashed Republic shuttle

I ordered this printed ship off eBay to use in the Clone Wars project. It's a kind of generic ship but did have definate nods towards a Star wars craft. This is good enough for me.

As it's printed with the printed lines still visible, I stuck on a few plasticard panels. This will be nice and smooth and should contrast well.

White Hawk down...I repeat White Hawk down!

The model was about £12 and is really 28mm in scale. This shouldn't matter as the bigger the better for tiny 15mm figures. It will make for a great objective with a platoon of Clones stranded in the middle of the board to rescue. Stick an injured Jedi in there and you really have a rescue mission on your hands.

The huge gaping hole in the vessel is great for putting bases of figures in and will take a few 40mm bases. Heavy cover from the laser fire amid the crashed wreckage for sure.

Once the craft is painted in the Republic colours it should look right at home crawling with Clones.

 

Republic colour scheme.

Once the glue was dry I gave it a spray with a white rattle can. I also gave the blast hole a spray of black. I ended up keeping this effect and just blocked in the colours around it.

Now we're getting somewhere, the Republic colour scheme really puts the ship into the Clone Wars setting.

"Take cover, watch those wrist rockets!"

Like I mentioned before, I didn't really change the black spray as it worked so well. Using the reference for the shuttle, I painted on the Republic colours picking out key panels for the different colours.

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The real magic came when I gave it a wash with thinned oils. These ran all over the ship and into the recesses creating instant panel lines.

Space 1999 eat your heart out!

I'm pleased with this quite paint job, it was a lot quicker and easier than I had first thought.