Hobby: Painted Alpha Legion Xiphon Interceptor

Behold! The might of a fully painted and operational Xiphon Interceptor that belongs to the Alpha Legion!

I wanted to aim for something that looks a bit more battle damaged than the usual affair. The reason for this is that the Xiphon is supposed to be an ancient construct and those that are in existence may have been pressed back into the civil war due to sheer need. I think this particular example shows this well. I have also taken some inspiration from the image of "survivorship bias" that you can see on wikipedia here and that I reproduce below under the appropriate CC-BY-SA-4 license. 

To cut a long story short, there are certain shots on target that won't matter, and others that will. The picture shows the shots that returning planes in real life came back with. The point is not to reinforce where these shots are, but where they are NOT (i.e. on the pilot, engines, and so forth). Admittedly, I have a few shots on one of the engines here, but they're not mega serious otherwise the craft would already be out of action. Instead, I have tried to put most of the damage shots on areas where the craft would be likely to tolerate, survive, and return to base. I think this works overall, and the decals for the Alpha Legion really ties everything together very nicely.

The final confession is that I haven't actually modeled the base yet! Suggestions are very welcome as to what should be on that grand sized oval based!