Little teasers but all welcome nonetheless! - Things are looking to be coming along brilliantly dude, clearly many a lesson was learnt with your efforts on 1AZRAEL1's commission. ;):cool:
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Little teasers but all welcome nonetheless! - Things are looking to be coming along brilliantly dude, clearly many a lesson was learnt with your efforts on 1AZRAEL1's commission. ;):cool:
Looking great so far. Metrotitan's colour scheme fits this mould better.
It's a funny thing - 1AZRAEL1's Metroplex was easily the best thing I've ever done, but at the same time I don't want to quit there - I want to keep developing and improving.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
This one is quite a different beast to the first one - I'm not going to all the trouble gap filling this one, but there's now a whole lot of holes and gaps to get paint into, which is not always easy with the airbrush, especially when the paint is a different colour to the original piece. I'm trying some new techniques with the airbrush that are working pretty well so far.
I've also tried out a new product in the last few days - a masking paint instead of tape. It comes off tomorrow evening, I'll post some pics of the results on Wednesday.
So the big question is, when am I coming to pick it up? :p
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
Whenever that may be, I'll be very sure that it is ready!!!:p:D
An update! Body parts. I'm using gloss paints, but the idea is that it will look reasonably close to a store-bought Metrotitan (if there was such a thing) with slightly better paint apps. Keep in mind these are very unfinished pieces, needing plenty of touch ups before they're done.
Back:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3666/...f9daafc4e5.jpgDSC_0661 by M-bot2011
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3785/...bf74ac034c.jpgDSC_0662 by M-bot2011
Front:
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2896/...aa68488a5b.jpgDSC_0664 by M-bot2011
Together:
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/...118c7bca86.jpgDSC_0666 by M-bot2011
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7304/...037ed78c96.jpgDSC_0667 by M-bot2011
Left side, still partially masked and short a few coats of paint:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7410/...ee3ceacaa8.jpgDSC_0665 by M-bot2011
I have something planned for the right side of the chest and to that end, I tried out a new product - Humbrol Maskol, a liquid masking agent that is painted on, dries in 15-20mins, and then can be painted over. When it's removed, its a little like soft rubber.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/...4e40b836cb.jpgDSC_0652 by M-bot2011
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3751/...203a23b3b0.jpgDSC_0653 by M-bot2011
After about 6-8 coats of blue, over 3 days (which is the longest it should be left on, according to the instructions - although I'm unsure what the consequences would be if left on longer).
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7138/...ccf71bcb74.jpgDSC_0654 by M-bot2011
After the Maskol is peeled off and the paint cleaned up a bit:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5471/...ff25b0c433.jpgDSC_0659 by M-bot2011
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2909/...ef519746bf.jpgDSC_0660 by M-bot2011
Some of the edges didn't come off clean and will need to be touched up. I think next time I use the Maskol, I will run a very sharp blade down the edge so the it comes off cleaner. But overall, I think it was pretty successful first effort.
I'm having a blast doing this, just like Metroplex before it. More updates soon I hope!:)
Wow! - Always love seeing these "In-Progress" shots dude, continuing to look good too so keep it up! :cool:
Some of the red bits... Mostly untouched, unfinished and without detailing which will come later.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7093/...565264e8_s.jpgDSC_0679 by M-bot2011
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2905/...a1504e19_s.jpgDSC_0680 by M-bot2011
...and a headless Metrodasher (I actually had no idea what Metrotitan's equivalent to Scamper was, had to look it up). I put him together (mostly) to check for rub points, which as you can see from the photos, there are several. I'll have to touch him up a fair bit.
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2916/...6b2e3cf6_s.jpgDSC_0678 by M-bot2011
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5121/...459de84f_s.jpgDSC_0677 by M-bot2011
I've got something sweet planned for his windscreen, hope they work out OK...
And something really cool - I (almost kinda sort of) found myself a GoogleWhack!! OK, technically I didn't because the official definition for a GoogleWhack (found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack) is 2 words that are found in the dictionary - which these 2 terms are not - and since I've used both those 2 words are used in this post, they are probably no longer a Googlewhack, so I'm including a screenshot as my proof:
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2929/...92c93004_s.jpgScreen Shot 2014-04-28 at 6.43.19 pm by M-bot2011
Pretty cool, no?:D;):cool:
That red, sure is Red! ;-)
Great work, thanks for keeping us updated.
Looking good!