New forum member StuG IV... ** FINISHED PICS with FIGURE! **

rios wrote:

The dry transfers looked amazing. Those are very small pieces, I don't understand how you could keep them from moving around when burnishing, please share with us.

rios, I kinda went with a "self invented" approach when applying the dry transfers. I found out that it didn't take much of "a rub" to get them loose from the protective paper.

So what I did was just to burnish a small corner of the transfer onto the figure.
Then I peeled of the protective paper, positioned the transfer exaxtly where I wanted it. Then I kinda "tap" burnished very carefully with a blunt end of a paint brush just to get it to stick a bit.
Then I used a somewhat liberal amount of Micro Set on the transfer and left it to dry for about 5 minutes, and applied another round of Micro Set.
Left them to dry overnight, and, voilá, the result came out as in the pics.

Hope this explained my approach to sticking the transfers to the figure.

 

Excellent job! I can't believe that you haven't done 'many' figures for the results of that one? I've done more than a 'few' and they all still look oh so crude compared to yours.

Thanks for sharing, I've enjoyed the opportunity to see your work!

 

WOW!!! How did I miss miss this?! Great job, love the zim pattern the PE the weathering and the fig.If you do'nt take an award for this one I think the judge's might be in need of some rubber hose action lol

Wow, that is just amazing. The zim is very convincing and the weathering is just superb.

so you applied the dry transfer like a decal, extra care of course since the film is a lot thinner.
Was it hard to do? Did any transfer film rip on you?

It sounds like very delicate work, and you did an excellent job. I'm amazed how nicely they turned out, brilliant, man!

Red X's...

Not from here, must've been a "blip" somewhere.