Building the Errant Venture Star Destroyer
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Building and painting Bandai's miniature Star Destroyer model kit as the famous red Errant Venture.
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00:00 Intro
00:48 Assembly
05:16 Basecoat painting
07:47 Detail painting
09:32 Pin wash and drybrushing
17:32 Final reveal and thoughts
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Great build! Happy New Year Sam!
Gonna buy some 4 myself!
Hehehe, I totally forgot that the Errant Venture and Booster Terrik were taking up room in my brain, this looks great!
I read the X-Wing books over 10 years ago. I could have sworn the Errant Venture was a Super Star Destroyer that Booster Terrik confiscated after the liberation of Coruscant.
Yeah, great ship, now i kinda want to do a new republic isd like w the starbird or new republic wings on the flanks
I kinda feel like doing this kit has emptied that space in my head, ready to be filled by some other obscure ship!
@@modelchili scratchbuilt coralskipper? Jade shadow? Lady luck? One day when my skills get there i want to do a jedi stealth-x
@@modelchili you want another obscure ship then the custom X-wings from when Rogue squadron left the new republic are quite unique.
The dry brushing gave it some unexpected texture. Looks fantastic!
Yeah I'm really please at how it turned out, thanks!
Thats sick. I always love watching your videos. You've helped me really get into scale models and yesterday i just made the millennium falcon from solo with the lighting.
Thanks! That's awesome, glad to be of help. 😊
I remember reading survivors quest and thinking it was so cool that somebody owned a star destroyer and painted it red. Great job!
Thank you!
You know how you could quickly get the ORIGINAL Star Destroyer from Star Wars/1977?
See the array (the big "X" part) between the two hemispheres on top of the bridge? Rotate that array 90 degrees vertically and you'll have the original Star Destroyer's bridge array!
There were other differences, yes, but that that was THE HUGE noticeable difference between the Star Destroyer in 1977 and the revised, newer model in 1980.
I noticed this on Eagle Models channel (he LOVES Star Destroyers and has built every major model release in styrene; he has a "fleet" of 11 of them I think; sold his Zvesda model a while back) and we both had a laugh over this. He just recently did a dedicated Imperial Class 1 model build-up. He took the Revell toy/Rogue One release and just refinished it by rotating the array. He also printed out 3D replacement hemispheres for the bridge and cannons that were more detailed and accurate than what came with the toy. For $20 it's not a bad. It's about as big as the Bandai model kit of the Star Destroyer and not bad on the details; not quite as good but it can be built up into something very decent.
LFL really makes big hay on selling us variants of vehicles and lightsabers! Funny how they STILL haven't technically released a model kit of the original Star Destroyer from Star Wars or Rogue One. Even the Rogue One/Revell model gets its wrong and gives you the Imperial II. I was just watching a video snippet of Rogue One and as far as I could tell ALL the Star Destroyers in that film were Imperial Class One (including Vader's flagship in the film; the same star destroyer at the beginning of Star Wars/1977). And yet the official model release is STILL Imperial Class II!
I swear the only company that's done decent research on Star Wars model kits is probably Bandai and they're REALLY dragging it down on their Star Wars releases. They haven't released much of anything new in a year now and a lot of the 1/72 releases are getting harder to find now. It's as if they're giving up on the Star Wars license just as the series seems to be turning around a bit with The Mandalorian.
Sales of the more recent stuff based on the Disney releases has not been as good as hoped; same situation the toy manufacturers were in as well as happened with OG Trek/Abrams Trek. They are actually concentrating on a lot of bobbleheads for the coming year which is disappointing, as there are quite a few Original Trilogy ships they could do in 1/72 (the Lambda-class shuttle would be cool) and that stuff was still selling. However, Revell is releasing the Razor Crest in 1/72 next year, so maybe they will take up the slack.
Saw the thumbnail and thought you'd put fibre optic lights on it
Then I saw the size and thought "well this'll be interesting"
Then I saw that it was just a *very* good paint job
There are some very skilled people that do light these small kits. I'm not quite there yet! And thank you. 🙂
I like how it turned out. I new about Booster Terrick and the Venture for about twenty years now. Through reading all the Star Wars books. Your model turned out real nice.
the Errant Venture looks great! Love how you used light grays to get a surreal look to it!
Thanks so much!
Wonderful. I remember this from the novels. Glad you customized it, thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the idea of using red for the base color, kind of like the Red Baron look. Great job, I might try that.
Thanks!
I remember a small amount about this ship, something about a sabacc tournament in one of the book series. Don't think I ever knew it was red. This makes me want one on the shelf now!
Your memory isn't wrong. It wasn't red at first (I seem to remember Booster grumbling in I-Jedi about how "Star Destroyer Gray" was the only color economically available in large enough quantities and how it was proof that the Empire had it out for him personally, lol). He only managed to get it painted red as a condition of lending it to the New Republic for a covert operation in the Hand of Thrawn books.
I'm obsessed with how tiny this kit is! And the red is just stunning. Excellent work 💙
Brilliant mate. I really like how this turned out.
Thank you!
Genius on the dry brushing technique
Thanks 😊
That looks wonderful !!
Nice little build! Love the detail work!
Thanks!
This is arguably one of my favorites from you. I really like it! Always amazing how you take something and just go those extra few steps that really bring it from a good build to spectacular.
Oh, and as always, love the music...
Thank you! Funny how the quick little side projects often turn out popular, and thanks for the feedback!
I love the color!
Great video. Fantastic amount of detail you've managed to paint in there, especially for such a small kit.
Thank you!
Holy CRAP! That looks AMAZING!
I’m building a “Errant Venture Diamond Level” box for my Sabacc cards, chance cubes, credits, etc and stumbled across this. Fantastic work man!
Happy New Year!
wow... that looks amazing
Cheers!
Absolutely beautiful. I am really enjoying these tiny kits and want to buy some as well.. Usually I am more into bigger things, but they seem like fun little projects for inbetween.
Thank you! They are fun to build, and only take a few hours work.
Amazing paint job as always Sam, thank you for helping us all deal with 2020 with your videos, looking forward to watching many more, best wishes to you and the family for 2021, stay safe.
Thank you! It's so cool to hear you enjoy watching me paint stuff and ramble on, I'm glad it's helped! 😊 There's much more to come.
@@modelchili Sam, I will be looking forward to all your future builds, your painting and if you want to ramble on please do so, it is always interesting and entertaining.
Never thought that red and grey can look so natural together... Really cool paint scheme!
Yeah I'm surprised it turned out well! Thanks!
Looks great. Love it
Very relaxing video! Never heard of the ship before, but I'm glad you do this custom, cuz I finally knew the existance of a red Star Destroyer! 😄
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great idea for an alternative paint scheme and really well executed.
Thank you! Yeah I'm pretty pleased at how it turned out. The dry brushing came out way better than expected.
@@modelchili you did a great job mate. Careful dry brushing on models this scale can really work sometimes, as it did here.
I don’t know about the adventure but now I want too! That looks great mate. Simple and effective 🤙🏻👌🏻
Thank you!
for such a tiny kit i think you got the best from it! well done
Thank you!
Very cool paint scheme!
Yeah it suits it well.
Great job.
This is wonderful! When I saw this on instagram I thought it was one of the larger kits. Very impressed with the paint job on this. So east to make a small model look small, but with some effort you really made it pop.
(I'm the one who commented on instagram about building the Anakin Solo.)
Thank you! Your Anakin Solo looks amazing. 👍
Geez mate, now I'm going to have to do one. Great job
Haha my pleasure. 🤣
AHHHH YEEEES, finally a man of culture.
It's Darth Vader's Ferrari! Great job on this and it's refreshing to see a non-grey SD for a change. That dry brushing really does make the difference but not as much as that dark grey used for the engine bells and turbo laser banks. That sells it for me really
Be great to see this coloured ship in a larger format - say Zvezda sized ;)
Thank you! Yeah I'm really tempted to get the 1/5000 version again and paint it up like this.
@@modelchili you definitely should, and a lit one. But change the colour of the LED's to anything other than cool white. You could go even more different and use ice blue ones. That's look cool I reckon
Awesome 👏🏼
Conjuring up Red Dwarf memories too!
Yeah it does!
Very nice!
It's really a beautiful build....and a great choice of rare ship -meaning the Vnture itself, NOT the CLASS of ship.
I would like to see you male some of the other high profile ships in ANY of the fleets we've seen on screen.
Particularly the Chimera and the Eclipee.
Although both of those ships would need a third party add-on kit. I'm sure there are some out there though.
I look forward to seeing more of your work. You're a great inspiration to me.
Please keep buildong!
-Always with much love, appreciation, and respect,
-Chris (
Awesome detail. Reminds me of Red Dwarf
Ha, yeah it does! Thanks!
Neat, very neat. I like the concept.
I wonder if there are other Star Destroyers in other colours? I'll have to check.
WOW! I love it!! You've done a great job. I told my son that you didn't need to paint it like the movies and you've done an amazing job
Thanks so much 😊
@@modelchili my pleasure. I'm thinking of doing a tie Fighter in colors like Sabine did in Rebels.
Cool!
Outstanding. Funny how the fire-red color scheme lends it a Chris Foss vibe. ...I wonder how it might have looked with a partial checkerboard or striped pattern on top?!
Thank you! I've always been a fan of that type of sci-fi art, I have all those books from the 70s and 80s. Would be a cool idea to paint this up as something like that.
@@modelchili I love Foss's art too - along with other sci-fi art from that era ( ex: Terran Trade Authority books, John Burkey, John Harris, etc. ). Not too long ago, I offered "Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss" to each of my two young nephews ( ages 7 and 8 / different households ). You should have seen their eyes light up!
Foss's art is probably among the most approachable for a kid, as an introduction to sci-fi art, partly due to the variety, extensive use of primary colors, somewhat "naïve" spontaneity-filled style, extreme drama and imagination, feeling of scale and detail, ease of projecting oneself into the scenes, etc. - as if his vehicles and ships were in fact gigantic living _toys_ duking it out, right now, somewhere out there. ...I suspect the more fine-artsy / painterly - impressionistic - art, like John Harris', takes a bit more taste and maturity to truly appreciate ( for a kid ); which is why I am holding off before getting them these types of sci-fi art books.
I had to look up the Errant Venture on Wookipedia and was immediately reminded why I loathed the old EU.
Great work on the model though, as always.
Thank you!
Timing. Going to re-read the X-Wing Novels soon.
That's actualy how I pictured it when reading the books
Fantastic 🌟😎🌟
Thanks 🤗
Awesome model kit and cool video and good job with the kit. And will you do more clones and stormtroopers in the future?
Thank you! Yeah I've still got 2 clone trooper kits to finish. Sometime in the future!
Could you make a diaroma of two ISDs and a Hammerhead colliding, from Rougue One? The only one I've seen was done using tiny Hot Wheels models by Kayakasaurus. I think it would look spectacular in a large scale.
That would look pretty cool. 🙂
Here’s hoping we see Booster in the new canon. They’ve been setting up a version of the original Thrawn trilogy so I’m excited to see what happens!
Love it! Would love to see your take on a Deathtrooper inspired version.
Thanks!
I'm just getting back into model making after many, many, many years. I am very grateful for your videos as they are really good and I've taken a plethora of notes! One question from this video: what acrylic thinner do you use/recommend?
That's awesome, I'm glad I can help! I use Vallejo Acrylic Thinner.
@@modelchili How long do you wait before applying the Tamiya TS-13 and TS-80 to your models? I've read varying lengths of time between the paint going on and the TS-13 ranging from 20 minutes to a week. Also, how many coats do you do, just one or more? Oh, and do you polish the model after spraying TS-13? I've been surprised to hear this being done a lot. Thank you. :)
This looks pretty cool. It's nice to see SW kits built as they are not meant to be as per instructions.
Thanks! Yeah it's fun customising them up.
Nice
Very odd to see a star destroyer not in the standard imperial grey, but with the dry brushing I think the red colour turned out really interesting.
Thank you!
Great work! I love it.
What brand of cotton buds do you use? Are they actually cotton, or something else? The typical cotton buds I use get fuzzy and tear apart very quickly, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for you.
A great project, Sam. Well done.
I've been meaning to ask you, do you think Bandai's Star Wars vehicle models, in any scale, even the small Vehicle Model ones, are best base coated with an airbrush given the presence of lots of little surface details, often grouped together such as seen here and the many angles and corners which could become obscured by excess paint?
Of course, not to mention that some models such as the 1/6 Stormtroopers, Falcon, AT-AT and larger Star Destroyer and the Revell Venator you did a while back have such large and flat surfaces to cover that brush painting the base coat would be more tedious and time consuming than it's worth.
If you're answer is yes, could yo recommend a compressor and airbrush to begin with? Thanks!
Thanks! Yes I'd always recommend an airbrush over brush painting. You just can't get the same result with a brush. The airbrush applies coats of paint that are molecules thick, so if you're careful enough you won't lose any detail. I'd recommend buying a cheap compressor and airbrush combo to start out with, any brand is good.
Amazing painting ! I love the colors !
Say, I build models for years now. And even tho I am good with mounting them, I suck at painting. Well I can work around, but I really have lot of troubles with it.
Would you say Vallejo paints are good for someone like me who doesn't care about thinning paints ? Or should I stick to Tamiya ?
Thank you! When it comes to choosing paints I just recommend what's nearby and available. If my local hobby shop didn't supply Vallejo then I'd probably use something else. Sorry that's not much help, sometimes it's best if you find a paint that works for you, with your brushes, skill level etc.
@@modelchili
No problem mate !
But say since I never used Vallejo, who does it handle ? Do you need to thin it ? Or is it ready straight out of the bottle to be airbrushed ?
Do you mind if I ask what sealer/varnish you use on your models? :)
Tamiya clear paints from a can.
In the EU it took Booster years to buy enough red paint to paint the venture so you could have had large sections of the ship in Imperial white I believe is what the Books called it.
I Jedi is the book that has the E.V in red and white iirc.
Fun little wait why is your ISD red model.
Does anyone have any art depicting the Errant Venture? i have a model at home i could paint.
Please upload a good video for the New Year 2021
I'll try this year!
The background music while your using the cotton bud to weather remove paint. Is it from mass effect?
It's called "CGI Snake" by Chris Zabriskie, I found it in the UA-cam music library.
Nearly had a heart attack when you used acrylic thinner to remove the excess lining, was relieved to be reminded that the Tamiya clear coat is lacquer based. #drakememe
Are you going to ever do the rest of that car model? Or was it just one off piece?
I'm guessing it'll just be the one off, since the video probably didn't do well enough for the supplier.
@@modelchili oh to bad I was very interested. 🤔
Frankly speaking, these models are so good, you can actually use them for Star Wars Armada.
Do you remove the mold release before paint?
Only if it feels oily. Most Bandai kits feel pretty clean out of the box.
You should do the Anakin Solo. Or the Lusankya.
Also i love the morrison-esq voice😂
Noooo he doesn't sound like him lol just cause hes a kiwi 🙄
@@DebzEagle yeah i know, its just that every time it makes me think of him
Try some custom painted super star destroyer
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We reject you Disney. This Star Destroyer is 10x cannon over what you say is cannon
🤜🤛
What book is this from?
It's from a series of books, there's a list on Wookipedia.
IIRC they made a call out in the books about Booster realizing why the Imps just painted them plain grey when he realized how expensive it was trying to paint the Venture red. Anyway slick build as always!
Thank you! Yes that would be a lot of red paint.
I seem to have in the back of my mind that Booster never finished painting the entire thing red it was always a running joke that it was always half done...but I could be mis remembering that...
The USSR want their Star Destroyer back (very nice paint job btw)
The Red Empire! Thanks!
@@modelchili And here the Soviets/Communists were ALWAYS trying to convince the rest of us they weren't IMPERIALists! All lies and IMPERIAL propaganda! 😁😁😁
Darth Vader's Helmet Lenses were even RED (Star Wars/1977 and Rogue One). You don't need much clearer proof than that!
RED RED RED!!!! 😂 🤣😂 🤣😂 🤣
And yes, I DO think the Vader helmet looks better with red lenses than the black lenses. The red lenses get across his anger better, IMHO -- they look more menacing. They changed to black lenses in The Empire Strikes Back so that we wouldn't see Dave Prowse's eyes like we did in a scene in the Death Star Trench at the end of Star Wars/1977. (Knowing Lucas' penchant for continuity corrections, they probably wiped out Prowse's eyes in a later re-edit of Star Wars/1977 but I haven't seen that version yet.) The problem with the black lenses is that they made the stunt work that much more difficult and dangerous. The Vader stuntman, Bob Anderson, kept the helmet (or faceplate?) off as much as possible so that he could see. He must have had tremendous muscle memory to do the fencing as well as he did and was probably terrified at points because he was 20 ft+ up on scaffolding/steps at times in Empire.
The late, poor Kevin Smith (actor, Hercules and Xena; he played "Ares") died in a scaffolding accident years ago and he was just visiting a set when he lost his balance and fell several stories.
Very cool. Almost as imagine the legends variant would looked.
Thanks!
what is this a star destroyer for ants!?
Mites!
You’ve got red on you.
Ahh! 😱
Nice. Though, if it's the EV then the gun turrets ought to be drilled out, wouldn't they? Been a long time since i read any of those 'books' but I'm nigh certain the weapons systems were removed. If one were to do a back of the envelope calculation, if anyone could be that nerdy, a single coat of marine grade paint for a Star Destroyer would set you back around £10,000,000 or $13,000,000.
That's not relevant, of course, just, you know, you have to be amazingly keen on red to invest that much, and that's just buying the stuff, masking up something the size of a small town would be a bit of a pain, and the contractor fees would be enormous.
It got them back during the raid on Yaga Minor during 'Vision of the Future' and then again in the Vong war, but yeah it was stripped down to the legal maximum for the largest of civilian starships: Heavy turbolaser battery (1), Turbolaser battery (1), Point-defense laser cannon batteries (2), Heavy ion cannon batteries, and a Tractor beams emitter
12:25 wasn’t as well maintained.............lol...read the hand of thrawn duology where the true extent is revealed...and it’s also in that book the reason it’s red is explained
I wish I had even half the skill you do...I mucked up too much as a kid to even think of trying
I stick to lego models instead, such as the 7400 piece SSD...
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Nice Job, not my cup of tea, way to small.