1/537 Klingon K'T'Inga class battlecruiser

[Trekriffic]

This is the 1/537 scale K'T'Inga battlecruiser from the AMT STTMP kit. Built straight from the box.

Nice job! What did you use as the base hull color?

[borz666]

What Griff said!

[Trekriffic]

The base color ? Hard to say. This has been repainted and retouched about 3-4 times. Started off with a light aircraft gray enamel. Then painted the raised panels dark blue enamel with small silver raised panels. Then overshot with transparent silver blue metallic. I can't recall what ship in the Klingon fleet I was going for that was silver blue metallic though !
Anyway, it stayed that way for about 10 years before I'd had enough and repainted it to look more olive draab/greenish. I left the gray blue base color alone and repainted the raised panels from navy blue to burgundy . I used brass in place of silver on the smaller raised panels. Shot with an overspray of transparent green. Followed by transparent pearl glosscote. Then a coat of dullcote. Then weathered with black and rust gel ink pens. Then another 2-3 coats of dullcote lacquer. The final look was a fortunate outcome all things considered.