I just started the Bandai CR-90 Corellian Corvette Tantive IV “Blockade Runner” 1/1000 scale,nice little gem
Very easy to build with classic Bandai perfect fit,I still always glue them together,helps keep the seams nice and clean,I fix couple of very small little spot with perfect plastic putty.
The only problem with the kit it’s the missing barrels on the 4 blasters on the upper sides,but I can understand would be difficult make them in scale with styrene,I decided to make them with guitar string…yep…I try soooo many times but the results wasn’t that good…I try to paint with the base colour to see how it look….orribile lump of glue,then I step on a bunch of very detailed pictures of the real one and decide to build the gun completely from scratch because it’s easier and the original Bandai are not very accurate.
Here it’s were i and now ,file the gun down end looking for the right greeblie
Made the new 4 cannons,added 4 disc of very thin styrene and on that I find 4 greeblie who’s looked more like the originals ones,the parts are from the WWII English bayonet holder in 1/35,then drill some 0.3 holes for the barrels,the barrels are made of guitars string cut to size and glued with little bit of CA
Pretty happy with the results except one where I made i little mistake when I was filing down the piece and if you look very close you can see it’s little bit sideways but I have only 4 bayonet holder’s and I can’t do another one
Thank you! … in this scale it was a bit of a challenge but I am quite satisfied with the result, I went through the spare box and all the kits in my stash and finally seeing the bayonet I got the flash of inspiration…
Now I have given back the Base color which is a mix of white, insigna white, ghost gray and medium gray, the next step is the red stripe because the stickers are too toyish.
I finished the model a few weeks ago and now I’m concentrating on the base, I noticed from the photos (yes non very good pictures i know ) that a bit of blue came out from the edges of the window … it will make a retouch, however I am quite happy with how it came out the ship, the red stripe are decals from Cosmos model.
Second step for the base, after the metal base I masked and added some rust pigments, after darkening a bit of red with an addition of AK Washing Agent … I don’t mind the effect, I’m not completely convinced but … I am never completely convinced of anything … … next step fix the metal base that has been damaged a bit with the tape but I expected it, clear cote on the black part of the base and redo the name plate … .it fell to the ground and I walked over it
What do you think? … I don’t know whether to add something to the black part
string…yep…I try soooo many times but the results wasn’t that good…I try to paint with the base colour to see how it look….orribile lump of glue,then I step on a bunch of very detailed pictures of the real one and decide to build the gun completely from scratch because it’s easier and the original Bandai are not very accurate.
…They looks very nice!
) that a bit of blue came out from the edges of the window … it will make a retouch, however I am quite happy with how it came out the ship, the red stripe are decals from Cosmos model.
… next step fix the metal base that has been damaged a bit with the tape but I expected it, clear cote on the black part of the base and redo the name plate … .it fell to the ground and I walked over it 
