Category Frank Blanton

Original Television Series Colonial Viper Model build I did using the excellent Moebius Kit. This is Viper Squadron / Strike Wing 2 while assigned to Battlestar Pegasus. I chose to use painted on stripes in blue and I added some decals from J.T. Graphics. I added some cables to the landing gear and some remove before flight tags.

Frank Blanton
Richmond Virginia

Artist Frank Blanton returns with these fantastic Viper builds! I love them!

Revel Colonial Viper kits I have built. #23 is a “Tiger Meet” Viper of Lt. Boomer from the Colonial Pilots Gun Competition on and around Aralon. This is a tribute build to Herbert Jefferson Jr. The ship is pre destruction of the 12 Colonies when Boomer was assigned to the Battlestar Acropolis. #23 is a participant serial number added to the craft by Competition staff. The NATO Fighter Gun Competition or Tiger Meet inspired this build. I placed next to a Viper I did two years ago for effect. The metallic paints are Alclad chrome and “hot metal effects” paints.

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Frank Blanton
Richmond, Va. U.S.A.

Artist Frank Blanton has outdone himself with this magnificent build of the Millennium Falcon!

This is the Fine Molds 1/72d scale kit. After assembly I painted the model with a base coat of light grey then added several washes over the model using AK Interactive washes. Afterwards I then painted each panel with thinned down Tamiya acrylic paints using various shades of Greys and Whites. I then used a very fine black and brown marker for paint chips,scratches etc.. Followed by more panel fading with the airbrush. The burned metallic areas at the rear of the ship were created using Alclad laqure paints for “Hot Metal Effects”. This is the ESB/ROTJ configuration and I placed two extra landing gear bays in.

Fine Molds 1/72d Millennium Falcon

Frank B. Blanton

Richmond, Va.

I have the great pleasure of introducing THREE new Artists to this Gallery today. The first is artist Frank Blanton with his fantastic build of the Fine Molds Y-Wing. The colors Frank chose are especially fantastic… as they look as if they belong to the Rebel forces, but may have been one squadron we never viewed on screen. His build is very well done and I am looking forward to showing even more of his work in the future.

To contact artist Frank Blanton direct, please click HERE!