It’s been quite some time since I have done something with the X-Wing, so I decided to go on a bit with it. For the base colour I will keep the darkish gray of the primer. So this will be a masking frenzy, since there are loads of body panels which need to have slightly different colours.
Overall View
Frontend Top Panel
The start was made by masking off the red stripe in front of the cockpit and the Squadron Position Markings (Red 3) on the wings. I used 6mm Tamiya and 1mm Kyosho masking tape. The Tamiya one was used for the outside (rough masking) and the Kyosho for the fine masking of the wings. The images above show 2 parts of the fighter, the Front End and the Wing Tip, masked and painted. It is also quite visible that the painting has been done with a paintbrush and not by airbrush.
After having done the first maskings, painted them and removed the maskings I now started with more masks for the body and the wings. As you can see, they have not yet been painted
Wing Tip
Overall View
When applying the masking tape, you can either work area by area to be painted, like I have done here or you can work by covering complete areas and then cutting out the regions you want to paint. Also in the area behind the AstroMech bay I started applying a black wash to get out the details a bit.
Frontend Panel
Wing Tip
Tags: How-To, Revell EasyKit, Star Wars, X-Wing