Lt. Z0mBe Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 (edited) The first color is on, cured, and has been masked in preparation for the succeeding coats. I'm going with a random, hard-edged geomoettric pattern reminiscent of Flankers and Viggens. Top Bottom Color number two has been added, with masking to be done tomorrow. Comments and criticisms welcomed, as always. Kenny Edited December 1, 2008 by Lt. Z0mBe
HWR MKII Posted December 1, 2008 Author Posted December 1, 2008 Keep it coming Kenny. The ed of the project is near. If kylwell can do a spindly SV-51 up in a splinter scheme you can do this one easy.
505thAirborne Posted December 1, 2008 Posted December 1, 2008 The first color is on, cured, and has been masked in preparation for the succeeding coats. I'm going with a random, hard-edged geomoettric pattern reminiscent of Flankers and Viggens. Top Bottom Color number two has been added, with masking to be done tomorrow. Comments and criticisms welcomed, as always. Kenny Hey Kenny. No criticisms here, can't wait to see your VF-22 when its all finished!! Looks awesome so far!!
cowie165 Posted December 2, 2008 Posted December 2, 2008 Sean WTF's up with your threads being closed dude?
HWR MKII Posted December 2, 2008 Author Posted December 2, 2008 Sean WTF's up with your threads being closed dude? Its been handled. It was a misunderstanding.
cowie165 Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Its been handled. It was a misunderstanding. Ack.
Lt. Z0mBe Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Finshed the fuselage color coats today. Here's the top and bottom with their second colors on. The second colors are masked off and the masks are burnished down and sealed: Top Bottom Third color applied of the first two colors' worth of maskings: Top Bottom I'll let everything cure for a day or two while I work on the base or something. The preshading didn't give quite the relief I was hoping for in all the areas, meaning I'll probably use some extra pastel ninja attacks when the time comes. Comments and criticisms welcome, as always. Kenny
electric indigo Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Remove the tape already. The tension is killing me.
jardann Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Remove the tape already. The tension is killing me. Ha Ha! Me too! Those flanker type colors look verrrrry interrressssting! Can't wait to see the end results.
Kylwell Posted December 3, 2008 Posted December 3, 2008 Finshed the fuselage color coats today. Here's the top and bottom with their second colors on. The second colors are masked off and the masks are burnished down and sealed: Top Bottom Third color applied of the first two colors' worth of maskings: Top Bottom I'll let everything cure for a day or two while I work on the base or something. The preshading didn't give quite the relief I was hoping for in all the areas, meaning I'll probably use some extra pastel ninja attacks when the time comes. Comments and criticisms welcome, as always. Kenny Cripes man how can you wait! I'm usually dodging fingerprints carefully removing the tape. Just peel it off man!
HWR MKII Posted December 5, 2008 Author Posted December 5, 2008 TAKE IT OFF!!! God that saying has alot of uses.
promethuem5 Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 I just finished these guys. Check out my new gallery page for more pics and closeups of the group shots:
Lt. Z0mBe Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 I just finished these guys. Check out my new gallery page for more pics and closeups of the group shots: Well done! All I can say is thank god Hitler or Stalin didn't have those things. Kenny
Berttt Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 (edited) Hey quit posting unless its pictures of that VF-22 sans masking tape! Nice work there P5 I have been known to paint a few miniatures myself. Edited December 6, 2008 by Berttt
cowie165 Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Hey Ben, nice 40K minis! I LOVE the terminator chaplain. I really want to grab that model soon. He looks great. The assault guys look very nicely done too. If you're ok with C&C, for me, the wash on the assault guys seems a little heavy. Hey did you take extra time on the jewel on the breastplate or is the shine just a trick of the light. If you painted that, awesome work mate, please share! I'm trying my first 40K guys at the moment. Man, the painting style is completely different to making a model kit, hey. Five minutes I stopped work - I'm in the middle of basing a DA tac squad, and have a dread WIP. These first guys are AoBR but they still turned out nicely. Hope to share in the next few days. Oh yeah, Ben, do you use Citadel paints? I tried running DA Green through my airbrush and it clogged it to the $hithouse. For every 10mins I can spray, I spend another 10mins cleaning out the nozzle @Berttt: I finished work yesterday dude, but I received your email and I'll be sure to beam over a reply. Suffice to say, big time agreement on my part
cowie165 Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Gotta say it again, that chaplain kicks ass. Have you uploaded all the pics to MW Gallery? I'm struggling to find them - but that doesn't mean they're not right under my nose...
promethuem5 Posted December 6, 2008 Posted December 6, 2008 Hey Ben, nice 40K minis! I LOVE the terminator chaplain. I really want to grab that model soon. He looks great. The assault guys look very nicely done too. If you're ok with C&C, for me, the wash on the assault guys seems a little heavy. Hey did you take extra time on the jewel on the breastplate or is the shine just a trick of the light. If you painted that, awesome work mate, please share! I'm trying my first 40K guys at the moment. Man, the painting style is completely different to making a model kit, hey. Five minutes I stopped work - I'm in the middle of basing a DA tac squad, and have a dread WIP. These first guys are AoBR but they still turned out nicely. Hope to share in the next few days. Oh yeah, Ben, do you use Citadel paints? I tried running DA Green through my airbrush and it clogged it to the $hithouse. For every 10mins I can spray, I spend another 10mins cleaning out the nozzle @Berttt: I finished work yesterday dude, but I received your email and I'll be sure to beam over a reply. Suffice to say, big time agreement on my part Thanks for the nice comments... the Terminator Chaplain really is one of GW's coolest figures ever. It's not even very effective in games for its price, but it's such a badass figure I couldn't help painting it first. I did jewel all of the blood drops and the eyes... I find it helps them pop a bit more than flat colors, altho on vehicles I think I will just use solid colors with some highlighting. It's funny you should mention a wash being heavy, as there is no wash really to speak of over the final colors... my progression was to spray them all with 50/50 Red Gore and Foundation Mecharite Red thru my Citadel Spray gun (which is really nice for a portable at-college solution for spraying without owning an AB, and took the GW paints no problem), and then I did some washing, with GW Wash Baal Red (which isn't very good, and I don't think I'll use for much more) and a bit darker wash. I think I then block highlighted all the panels with Red Gore and then panel-lined with an oil wash. I cleaned up the oils, and then highlighted from Red Gore up to Blood Red. Anything that looks like wash buildup should be a little uneven-ness in the highlighting coats, as I was aiming for a little surface variation on the armor to really tie in with the down-and-dirty look I'm going for. My next builds will be a Rhino with interior, and then maybe a Dread before I head home for Xmas and rip into the massive box from Forge World awaiting me... two FW Dreads, an Arvus Lighter shuttle, a couple Epic Titans, some bits and bobs, and a Vulcan Mecharius are calling to me. As for the photos, they're hosted on the new DakkaDakka.com gallery, which is really phenomenal and went up a couple days ago, and I'll be using for all my miniature images besides my larger models for the foreseeable future. If you're really getting into 40k (and it's funny you mention Dark Angels, as I'm currently reading the Angels of Darkness book about their backstory and tracking Fallen) then I suggest you hit up DakkaDakka.com and check out their galleries and boards.
Lt. Z0mBe Posted December 7, 2008 Posted December 7, 2008 Hey quit posting unless its pictures of that VF-22 sans masking tape! Here's the masks removed after the final color was added. THe two "turqouisy" colors were too similar once applied. To combat this I thinned some Tamiya blue waaaay down with 90-percent Isopropyl and a drop of Future and gave a mist coat to the entire model prior to removing the camouflage masking. I was really tickled with how this bizaare scheme came out Top Bottom More masking underway now for the stabilizer attachment points, the secondary exhaust nozzles, cannon ports, and the micro-missile lauch doors: Top Bottom New masks have been burnished down, with their edges lightly sealed with Future. Comments and criticisms welcomed, as always. Kenny
Berttt Posted December 8, 2008 Posted December 8, 2008 Ah there we go! Hey nice work man, lamsot looks like a paint job for a Touring car racer
Lt. Z0mBe Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Long time between updates. I've been sanding the base down and applying decals. The decals are all applied, say of one I'll apply tomorrow night. It's a big one and I'm tired. The unit markings are fictitious, being an amalgam of a Navy craft with Marine attack squadron markings. Bottom From three o'clock Level From nine o'clock level FRom above I've got washes and weathering to go, not to mention the base is primed and ready. Comments and criticisms welcome, as always. Kenny
MechTech Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 I think it looks good. I'm thinking lo-viz markings may comlement the colors better, but I'm not sure. - MT
edwin3060 Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Hmm the colours look very bright to me, so high vis markings may work fine... looks to me very much like a demonstrator aircraft!
ron5864 Posted December 24, 2008 Posted December 24, 2008 With the much anticipated Christmas break now being realized, I was able to crack open the Bandai 1/72 VF-25F box to begin work. Here's what I got so far, Alto was painted in his school X-Gear color as seen when he first jumped into the VF-25 cockpit. A few other pieces were also put together but nothing too really show for yet.
HWR MKII Posted December 24, 2008 Author Posted December 24, 2008 Little bit o this and little bit o that here.
electric indigo Posted December 24, 2008 Posted December 24, 2008 Is that the Fine Molds kit? Don't forget to post pics of the finished model.
HWR MKII Posted December 27, 2008 Author Posted December 27, 2008 Well the Sanka is done. Yes its the fine molds kit. Finished shots can be seen here http://s306.photobucket.com/albums/nn268/H...Sanka%20Mk%20B/ Now im on to other things....
Valkyrie addict Posted December 27, 2008 Posted December 27, 2008 holly crap...that figure is awesome, I will never in my lifetime achieve such crisp details in a figure like you do.... damn
007-vf1 Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 This is what i have been polishing up and working a bit on...
Grayson72 Posted December 30, 2008 Posted December 30, 2008 Are those Star Wars ships all in the same scale?
007-vf1 Posted December 30, 2008 Posted December 30, 2008 Yes, they are virtually the same scale. The eta-2 is the titanium and the N-1 is a hallmark tree display which I think is on the relatively small size side. The scales were pointed out by some members at Starship modeler site. The A and B wings are fantastic plastics. E wing is the Model Addix one... it will look pretty good with the Fine molds one
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