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April 2008
- From: Philadelphia PA
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Auroa *** Tracy Kit with Rorschach Modification
I Figure I should post this here. It is a figure and I dont have a real complete build diary of this on the site anywhere. I am missing photos for alot of steps but I will explain.
For the paints I used
The building itself is a humbrol Brick Red Enamel. The stucco was primed white then painted over with lichtgrau both enamel. The window is Tamiya white acrylic, the shade with dark green humbrol enamel. All the black is Tamiya black acrylic. The can is some shade of humbrol gray enamel but I am not sure which I used. The rust weathering is well, Model Masters Rust enamel. The Purple 'spray paint' is Tamiya Purple Acrylic, and the posts are Tamiya German Gray Acrylic.
Rorschach's coat is Model Master Armor Sand or Raw Sienna (from what I can make out, its worn off) its Enamel with highlights from Tamiya Brown Acrylic, Tamiya Hull Red Acrylic, and very small bits of Model Master's Leather (I believe, their color labels wear off easily) Enamel. The hat uses the same colors. The pants are Tamiya Hull Red Acrylic with Tamiya brown acrylic highlights, same as the gloves. The gun is Tamiya Acrylic Gun metal.
All of the weathering on the kit was done using Bandai Gundam 'Real Touch' Paint markers /forums/t/128226.aspx I HIGHLY recommend giving them a try.
For the base, first what I did was get the trashcan, it had a gash in it but no details on the inside, so I got some parafilm and made a trash bag. I airbrushed it black and put it in the can. After that I put the Plastic rubbish piece into the bag where it was meant to fit on the kit, and finished painting it all.
I then snap fitted *** and saw how he would fit in the scene and I then set to work on building him, ALOT of work
I then set forth to fix the window, it would not be good to have an open window with no back so using scrap plastic I fabricated a back, and painted it black. (the back of the kit is quite ugly, alot of hole plugups and fixes and jury rigged things back there... I may seal it up in the future). I also had to extend it a bit to completely block out all openings, especially on the sides.
Ok, here is where the kit diverged EXTREMELY from what it should have been. *** Tracy's paint scheme was... hard, to say the least, especially yellow, you all understand. Not really knowing *** Tracy I noticed it was not hard to modify the kit to fit the character Rorschach (see ink blot tests) from the comic/movie Watchmen. I used milliput to change the coat into a trench coat, I lengthened the lapels and added a raised collar. I also added a scarf.
On top of that, to make the mask, instead of painting it on I got a new sock that had received a hole thanks to an errant dropped exacto. I cut a piece out (it cut nicly) I stretched it around the head and super glued the back. I trimmed the excess off of the back, making it look like a smooth mask instead of a sock then painted the inkblots on the face using tamiya black acrylic, dropping it on in the right patterns. I super glued the hat to that. the sock stretched and fit the form nicely, you can still see the nose and ears but the other features are indistinguishable like they should be.
The final touch was that I put graffiti on the wall behind him in purple. I used a sloppy free hand brush technique to try and replicate spray paint. The words are not complete, as it is only a section of the wall. This is what they say (these are from ad campaigns done in promotion of the movie)
If you didnt see the film the police were on strike the watchmen were acting as vigilante police, trying to protect the city and the populous was not pleased any longer.
And here is the finished product.
And as a last treat, its been a while since I posted a picture of myself, maybe... two years ago at Christmas, this is from my college graduation a few weeks ago, notice the hair cut...
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