I actually finished one of my ships! (well, except for lighting effects, but, hey, close enough!)
The VSD Obsoletor:
I wanted a nice and gritty feel, but not quite scrappy (that I'm saving for the rebs). The main goal was having something that looks like it could have been one color at some point, but that had enough interesting stuff going on to not look like a blob of paint (i.e. I wanted some panel modulation without overdoing the highlighting).
I've also got so
I'm starting up my next two ISD's while I wait for my "die cut reflectors" (i.e. glitter) to arrive via mail order (yes, I WAS too ashamed to marchinto Joann's and buy some myself), so I'll take some pics, though it's basically this:
Starting with a matte paint star destroyer (stock FFG works for this too!), start shading in the panels with your color pencil. You use it just like you would on paper, i.e. pressing down harder will put more pigment down, which will make it darker. You will s