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While the standard pre-painted finish is excellent, I decided to take my amateur painting skills and have some fun painting some ships as characters from Sonic the Hedgehog, a franchise that has been dear to me for nearly my entire life. I'm not much of a painter and these ships will look inherently silly but I'm hoping for any and all comments about ways I captured the character's aesthetic and such opportunities that I missed. Here we go!

First is an A-Wing inspired by Amy Rose. The miniature was washed with Games Workshop's Badab Black wash to dirty it up and then sealed with Testors Dullcote for durability and a matte finish. A note on the design, the red and white motif is mirrored on the bottom of the ship as well.



Second is another A-Wing (it is the fastest rebel dial after all) inspired by the titular character Sonic the Hedgehog. Like the Amy Rose ship, the miniature was washed with Games Workshop's Badab Black to darken and dirty it and then sealed with Testors Dullcote. To reflect the peach color only being on the character's chest I painted the underside completely blue rather than mirroring the design of the top of the ship.



As you can see, these are plenty silly but in an odd way I like the way they come together. I am currently doing a X-Wing and will be doing at least a Y-Wing and maybe even a YT-1300 if I find the right character to base it on; any ideas? I am trying to have the ships fit each character to a degree (Sonic with the fastest dial and Amy following suit to give chase) and I'm having trouble figuring out who fits the YT-1300. I also have plans for the HWK-290 and B-Wing when they release (anyone wanna guess who will be which ship?), after keeping one of each with the stock paintjob of course.



Anyways, here is a simple Star Wars EU 181st TIE Interceptor; so simple, so quick, yet it really makes it stand out!



What do you guys think?

Not a fan of the A-Wings. I dont think the colors fit them. Although it seems this was your goal, they just dont say "Star Wars" to me anymore. You should also thin down your paints. On such small and fragile models the blotchy paint takes away anything the model has.k

On the opposite side the tie interceptor is just awesome. Why didnt i have the idea to paint that stripe! It just looks 100% more awesome with it. I will definitely copy that! I now have to buy an additional Interceptor just to paint the stripe on one used for named pilots and leave one with the prepaint for unnameds!

I really like the sonic stuff, looks pretty cool!

Next up is a X-Wing inspired by Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic's chief rival. Again, the miniature was washed with Games Workshop's Badab Black to darken and dirty the ship before being sealed with Testors Dullcote; the effect is slight due to the dark scheme. I selected the X-Wing for Shadow as I felt it better represented the character as Shadow is the quintessential all-rounder combining strength, agility, and durability. The red stripes on the fuselage and s-foils are a nod to Shadow's striped quills while the faint red stripes on the cannons and engines are to represent his arms and legs respectively. Further cannon and engine detail is for the shoes and gloves with the remaining markings being the red cockpit for his eyes and the white nose for the white on his chest. The final touch was painting the astromech green as Shadow is never without his green Chaos Emerald.





I've just started on a repaint of the HWK-290 and I have plans for a B-Wing, Y-Wing, YT-1300, and another X-Wing; any guesses on what each one will represent? AS for the HWK-290, here it is after the first coat of the base coat; makes it pretty obvious who this will be.

i do like the X wing colour scheme, really nice well done

Nice painting there.

that black xwing is sexy

The a-wings scream wip3out to me!

Next up is a HWK-290 painted as Miles "Tails" Prower, Sonic's adoptive brother and trusted sidekick. Like all of my other repaints the ship was washed with Games Workshop's Badab Black before being sprayed by Testor's Dullcote. I chose the HWK-290 for Tails due to its role as a support ship really fitting Tails' role as a sidekick, supporting others around him. With that said, Tails can also be a fighter so the possibility of equipping a Blaster Turret really makes the HWK-290 a perfect fit for the character. The windows were painted a sky blue to represent the eyes and the white chin-stripe at the nose of the ship represents the character's white muzzle; the white accent was continued underneath the ship with white on the turret's cannons for his gloves and a (unseen) patch of white for the chest. Other accents include white and red stripes on the engines for the shoes and socks and even the back-edge of the engines have a dark grey for the soles of the shoes. The engines were painted a combination of blue and white to match the engine detail from the Jan Ors card and the final, perhaps most defining detail is the fox-tail pattern on the HWK-290's twin tails.


I'm REALLY happy with how this one turned out. Painting the windows was a gamble (I have left them untouched on my other ships) but I think it really paid off with the stark contrast between the black outline and sky blue panes giving the ship an overall crisp look. I was afraid of the design being monotonous with all of the yellow but I love the shade and I think accents here and there break it up enough.

Also, just a note, even with pedestrian painting skills like mine the HWK-290's engines look fantastic when painted; 6 thrusters really looks great on a ship this size.



Up next is either a B-Wing, Y-Wing, or a YT-1300. I have characters picked out for each though I'm not certain of the designs so I really don't know which to do next. Also, some friends have pointed out that I need to create a Robotnik to go along with these ships so I had the idea to paint some imperials as Robotnik and his various minions (A Metal Sonic TIE Interceptor, badnik TIE Fighters, etc...). Still unsure if I want to do so because I love the stock Imperial paint-jobs so much but, when completed, the two opposing forces would be great.

So, what do you guys think?

Got to play my first game entirely with repaints. It was great to finally use all of the ships together and I think when flown together they really come together.

A Knuckles B-Wing is up next!

Those are terrific!!

I love it when people take to making thier stuff custom!!

Next up is a B-Wing inspired by Knuckles the Echidna. Knuckles is a bruiser, through and through, and really fits the bruiser nature of the B-Wing quite well. His design is fairly simple so the repaint is as well with only a few distinctive markings like the white chevron around the fuselage to represent the character's chest and the white on the cannons to represent his spiked, gloved fists. The last distinctive markings are the designs on the primary weapon pod at the base of the ship which match up to Knuckles' shoes.



Ultimately, I'm not too thrilled with this one for a number of reasons but I think the B-Wing looks surprisingly good in red.

Up next is either a Rouge X-Wing or a Silver Y-Wing!