Yoko From Gurren Lagann ***Completed***

Looks really cool.
I'm really interested in your paints.

What kind of paints are you using? 

fitz wrote:

Looks really cool. I'm really interested in your paints. What kind of paints are you using?

The paints I've been using on her are lacquer based.  The skin tones are mixed using gunze sangyo's Mr Color line of paints: white base, character red, orange yellow, sky blue, and brown.  The pink stockings are a mix of another lacquer brand called Finisher's which is a mix of lumi pink and white - the lumi pink has some pearl effect to it.  The gun was base coated with Finisher's pure black and then alclad jet exhaust was sprayed on top.  For the arm stocking, I used Finisher's pure black, and sprayed a mixture of future floor polish and interference violet pearl ex powderes over the gloss black to get a sparkly violet effect in certain light.  The gold for the chop sticks are Finisher's Red Gold.  The primer used is Gunze Sangyp's Mr Resin Primer which is also a lacuqer based product.

I painted the smaller hair pieces last night, and I'll post some photos later tonight.  For the rest of the kit, I plan to mainly use Finisher's paints.

I think with my most recent order in from E2046 I have most of these colors or similar equivelants, I will give your blend a go on Hurahi and a couple of other figs. Have a couple of small scale Ayna Zahali's  to try it on as a base.  Do you know what the proportions are? I figure a small bit of the blue is going to go a long way towards warming the tone.

 David

PatlaborUnit1 wrote:

I think with my most recent order in from E2046 I have most of these colors or similar equivelants, I will give your blend a go on Hurahi and a couple of other figs. Have a couple of small scale Ayna Zahali's  to try it on as a base.  Do you know what the proportions are? I figure a small bit of the blue is going to go a long way towards warming the tone.  David

The basic start point is 8 parts white base, 1 part yellow, 1 part red, and just a touch of the blue.  From there, I go to balance things.  Since I only do this when I mix up a big batch, I don't have an exact formula, sorry.  But at least I have an actual start point :D 

good deal C!

I'm going to scribble this in an unintelligable script and then try it at the house :)

David

Great painting! I'm lovin' that hot pink!

Steve