I know there is a thread where someone made their X-Wings look the exact same as the Xs from the movies, but has anyone done anything like paint their TIEs all red or something else just as drastic?

I'm asking this because I sort of want to do it but I don't have any experience painting miniatures and I want to see how good it looks before busting out the paint.

I'm going to put a red stripe on my TIEs to indicate they belong to the 181st IFW.  I haven't actually gotten my pieces yet, because my order would have stripped the store shelf and as a pseudo-employee I'd rather the customers get theirs first.  I will also be painting one X-Wing green in order to reflect Corran Horn/CorSec. 

CaptainRook said:

Something along the lines of that green x-wing is what I'm thinking about doing for for TIEs and Interceptors.

My stuff will get here tomorrow, so I'll probably do that one first so you can see it.  It won't take me long, it's a tiny miniature…it's just questionable how well it will turn out and exactly what green I'm going to use. 

 The only reason I haven't yet is because I don't have the skill to paint something that small and detailed. But soon I'll have another guy from my LGS do it for me. I plan on my X-wings being painted in Rogue, Wraith, CorSec, and either leave one generic or if someone feels really ambitious on my behalf perhaps the Krayt Dragon paint of Gavin Darklighter. Or I could be really weird and whitewash it 'ultraviolet' like Ooryl's. My TIEs will be a random assortment of stripes and nuke panels, mostly in red.

Since I got my hands on them, I have been dying to turn one of my X-wings into a StealthX.  I might have to do it now that I've mentioned it on here.  Should be pretty easy.

Roy

If I set out to customize my minis, I'd want to change the hull stripe color on the rebel ships like they were in TIE Fighter and X-Wing. Organize them into flights, then paint them accordingly.

I have the same kind of stripes on my TIES as the 181st, but orange. I probably should have used yellow to make it a more distinct difference…

I intend to use various colours on my Rebel fighters. I'm going to try to avoid red squadron markings since I want my ships to be unique. I'm going to keep to rather sparse markings.

I haven't done anything drastic to my minis, and likely won't - I want to keep the "look-n-feel" close to the film canon.

That said, I've started adding triangles of Citadel Blood Red to my TIE fighters, and will find a way to add unit markings to each model so they are all individuals. The red isn't working very well against the black of the TIE's solar panels though, so it'll need at least another coat and probably more :/

Also I've used Citadel Foundation Blue (Mordian Blue?) to replace the red on one of my X-Wings - and made it "Blue 5". Sadly, this particular shade of blue lacks "pop" on the table, so I'm probably going to clean it off and try Citadel Snot Green instead. Oh, and I've used Citadel Iyanden Yellow on several panels of Blue 5 which adds flavour.

I'm considering a complete repaint of an X-Wing fighter as well, just for the fun of it. If I do so, I'll start with a white undercoat and work up from there.

I'd think light blues would pop too drastically over the warm hull color of the X-Wings… got any pictures to share Chris?

Even though I'm not very interested in re-painting the ships for X-Wing (play too many other games where the minis don't come pre-painted, so that's one thing I love about X-Wing), I can definitely tell there's a large amount of interest in that.  I wonder if perhaps it might be in FFG's interest at some point (like possibly as a co-release with packs of new pilot cards) to take a page from MageKnight and release each ship either completely unpainted or with just the base hull color and shade wash applied, leaving it up to the buyer to detail it out?  If I ever got an itch to paint a specific ship, I'd prefer to go that route than trying to work over an already painted model.

Jim

That would be pretty cool, to make the option available for people to specially order unpainted minis to customize themselves. But then they haven't made the same offer for Wings of War players, have they?

Here's Blue 5 (Luke Skywalker's ship before the limitations of blue-screen FX technology forced them to change Blue Squadron to Red Squadron). The blue in this photo shows up way more vibrant than it does "in the flesh". The blue looks almost black to the naked eye, especially from 3 feet away (standard test for wargames miniatures).

Curses! I can't figure out how to add the photo to this blasted forum. Little help?

just_chris said:

Upload it to imgur first and then use this button.

Sigh. Take 2. (I'm too old for this sh*t, when I was a boy, we had BBSs and we didn't complain! *shakes cane*)

Here's Blue 5 (Luke Skywalker's ship before the limitations of blue-screen FX technology forced them to change Blue Squadron to Red Squadron). The blue in this photo shows up way more vibrant than it does "in the flesh". The blue looks almost black to the naked eye, especially from 3 feet away (standard test for wargames miniatures).

EDIT PS: Thanks Jak!

Yeah… I was going to say that looks great from the photos.

I've actually picked up some orange paint and re-colored one of my recently purchased X-Wings. Maybe I should have picked a more striking color- orange is close to red- but I wondered about changing the paint schemes a little more dramatically than the "t-65 standard" scheme to make it a little more distinct *shrug*