Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada

Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada

 

Collaboration with Sabre Workshop

The model here is actually a mis print – i had quite a bit of work to do to assemble the 3 pieces together so that the joins were obfuscated; I partial succeeded here as some joins are good, but some are quite visible.

The best product for all the gap filling was Vallejo’s Plastic Putty.   

Mandator II – A Huge Ship

Man, the  Mandator II is a huge ship. While it’s not as big as say the official FFG Super Star Destroyer, it took between 10 and 20 hours to paint, I reckon.

Shading Every Hull Panel

The most time consuming part of the project was choosing to individually glaze/shade each and every panel; I used a darker grey glaze to back-shade the back end of each panel. This gives the ship a kind of “texture”.

Decals

I was pretty pleased with the decals; yellow ink tends to be very translucent, but against the Republic light grey they look fine. Against darker colours the red and yellow might not stand out. 

Varnishing Disaster

I foolishly used a new pot of varnish the the Mandator II here… which turned out to be gloss varnish!  No matter how many subsequent layers of matt varnish I applied afterwards, the model retained a shine. Doh.

 

Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada
Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada
Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada
Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada
Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada
Painted Mandator II Star Dreadnought for Star Wars Armada