Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV

[electric indigo]

Thanks for the explanation and the tip with the cork trivets!

[electric indigo]

Viggen ready for the finishing touches

[Grayson72]

wow great job on that camo!

[arbit]

2 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Viggen ready for the finishing touches

Lovely paint work. 

[arbit]

Did someone ask for Nausicaa love?

 

[Return To Kit Form]

Awesome work on the Viggen camouflage 

[Convectuoso]

Those Nausicaa models look just great

[electric indigo]

On 29.7.2017 at 7:55 PM, Grayson72 said:

wow great job on that camo!

 

On 29.7.2017 at 9:45 PM, arbit said:

Lovely paint work. 

 

8 hours ago, Return To Kit Form said:

Awesome work on the Viggen camouflage 

Thank you all. I had given myself 1 week for the paintjob, knowing that if I dropped the ball, I'd never touch that kit again.

Looking back, it was more tedious than working on a Mortar Headd garage kit.

I have collected a set of missiles for the Viggen from donor kits, now I need to scratch build some launch rails.

[derex3592]

freaking awesome camo job there!!! 

[arbit]

Here's an updated video. I think its a lot better now.

 

[Salamander]

Ohm now with metallic highlights:

I let myself be inspired by various moths we have around here, which when you touch them leave behind a goldish-brown dust. Highlighted all the ridges and spikes with Tamiya copper and then toned it down with a thinned layer of Tamiya bronze. Depending on how much thinned down bronze was applied to the copper, more or less of the copper shines through (especially with my camera's flash).

Onto Nausicaa!

[arbit]

Fantastic! Gorgeuos!

[Nyankodevice]

after what seemed like endless sanding... i have some progress on

what is essentially a Morrigan/Sivil hybrid, to become a ....

Uchuu Kyuketsuki (space vampire) version of sivil from Macross 7

the hair is in the works..

sivils headgear almost done

and i havent settled on what kind of boots...

 

[Salamander]

What scale is that? 1/4?

[Xigfrid]

I love Sivil: so many things were never told but her face expressions or reactions would made it clear. 

I will be following your progress 

[Nyankodevice]

1 hour ago, Salamander said:

What scale is that? 1/4?

im guessing as to her size, so my estimate says 160cm ish or 5.25 feet

model is 47cm tall with heels 45.5 without .....

so roughly scale 1/3,5 (you where close)

[Nyankodevice]

made some progress on sdf-1 (mini me)

still need to paint more markings and a bit more weathering...

also started on the inder layer of the heir for "Sivil" 

[VF-1A Grunt]

Arbit and Salamander, great Nausicaa models! I really haven't followed much animation outside of Macross, but I loved that movie. Thanks for sharing!

[Salamander]

Th only thing I really modded on the Nausicaa with Ohm kit:

Filled the bottom part of Nausicaa's bag with plastic card and putty because otherwise it's possible to look into the bag from certain angles.

Testing a display base idea:

A bit large, as with Nausicaa herself mostly painted it would only take up half of the space available:

I really need to tone down the Ohmu blood on her dress and hands...

[electric indigo]

Can you take a picture of the Ohm without flash? I'm curious how the colors look in daylight.

_

I'm back to the LED Mirage, final primer cycle.

[arbit]

4 hours ago, Salamander said:

Testing a display base idea:

How about a flat circlular base or square like this? http://www.e2046.com/p/6762

[arbit]

37 minutes ago, electric indigo said:

back to the LED Mirage, final primer cycle.

Nice. Those rough lines on the legs and shield, are they to give an organic biotech effect?

[electric indigo]

Those lines are representing an intricate ornament that's bordering the red areas.

http://www.gearsonline.net/series/fivestarstories/mh/led/led13.jpg

[derex3592]

So... AT-AT round two! I've decided to give the new one a 2nd row seat so I can have 4 guys in the cockpit this time around utilizing the top of a certain SDF-1 Macross model part... hehehe. Yeh.. I know... no one will ever know or see that they are in there.. but hey, why not.  

Edited August 6, 2017 by derex3592

[wmkjr]

4 hours ago, derex3592 said:

So... AT-AT round two! I've decided to give the new one a 2nd row seat so I can have 4 guys in the cockpit this time around utilizing the top of a certain SDF-1 Macross model part... hehehe. Yeh.. I know... no one will ever know or see that they are in there.. but hey, why not.  

*snips*

Your very own Macross easter egg!

[Salamander]

20 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Can you take a picture of the Ohm without flash? I'm curious how the colors look in daylight.

Here you go, in some sunlight on my balcony:

Nausicaa's dress is being toned down with some semi-gloss clear, and I got myself started on another Nausicaa kit:

The engine and lower half of the wings went together just fine even with paint (figured the engine detail could look like an old circuit board ^_^), but the upper half of the wings simply don't want to snap in place nicely, which explains the tape to hold it together as the glue dries. Besides the obvious seams there are some dimples that will need filling.

[electric indigo]

Looks almost too real

[Podtastic]

21 hours ago, derex3592 said:

So... AT-AT round two! I've decided to give the new one a 2nd row seat so I can have 4 guys in the cockpit this time around utilizing the top of a certain SDF-1 Macross model part... hehehe. Yeh.. I know... no one will ever know or see that they are in there.. but hey, why not.  

That reminds me of the cockpit setup in the Heavy Lifter of IMPS The Relentless chapter 2.

[MechTech]

OK Salamander, you're going to make me build the gunship! Its been sitting around too long anyhow.

The AT-AT is looking good Derex! - MT

[Salamander]

Going from faceless protagonist to Nausicaa:

And a better sized base:

Gun on the right for composition's sake, even though it's shown on the left in the manga scene I will try to replicate.

Some time back I had picked up some Padico Artista Formo water-based stone clay from a HLJ sale, which I will use to build up the base. It's easy to work with using hands and a small dish of water (to smoothe out edges). Then it's time for the cling-film trick:

Apply cling-film to (moisterized) clay, press items you want to mount on top of clay into clay. This will leave the imprints in the wet clay, while keeping your items clean. Remove cling-film afterwards:

Then it's simply a matter of letting the clay dry for some time.

Edited August 9, 2017 by Salamander
Display base construction

[Kelsain]

Wow, great eyes on Nausicaa! I have the 1/20 kit with Kai. Got pretty well along on him, but was discouraged by the face on the figure. Are those decals you're using?

[arbit]

7 minutes ago, Kelsain said:

Wow, great eyes on Nausicaa! I have the 1/20 kit with Kai. Got pretty well along on him, but was discouraged by the face on the figure. Are those decals you're using?

That was the one thing I modded on my Kai kit, I sanded away the chin guard on Nausicaa to get a fuller look. Other than dropping her on her head while clear coating  she came out okay.

Edited August 9, 2017 by arbit

[Salamander]

48 minutes ago, Kelsain said:

Wow, great eyes on Nausicaa! I have the 1/20 kit with Kai. Got pretty well along on him, but was discouraged by the face on the figure. Are those decals you're using?

Yeah, the ones from the kit. There's no way I'm going to paint anime eyes on a 1/20 scale figure (1/12 scale is the smallest I've gone for fully detailed eyes). The faces of the figures are possibly the worst thing of these kits, they make Nausicaa look about twice to thrice as old as she is supposed to be (although her bossom on this kit is also not that of a young girl).

[Kelsain]

Ah, I have the old kit, not the Bandai re-release. I don't think it came with decals. At least I don't remember them.

But her face looks a little too chunky with the headgear on. Her face with the baby Ohmu looks much more the right shape.

[MechTech]

I painted the 1/12 scale Misa figure for my daughter and Misa looked more like Little Orphan Annie eyes wise! I lost the decal sheet somehow. - MT