Gun for Hire: finished!!! 8-29

modelchasm wrote:

BTW ... my neighbor just drove by a gave me a funny look as I was holding the printout to the window ... gee, thanks! HAHA!!!

that's why i used the door out onto my deck (the back one) buddy!!! no witnesses!!

Thanks Camo!! That's exactly what I was looking for. Such a simple technique too. I'll have to store that one away in my "how-to" book!

BTW ... my neighbor just drove by a gave me a funny look as I was holding the printout to the window ... gee, thanks! HAHA!!!

btw scott, rereading your last post i think you were asking me how did i come up with the phrase, like i said while probably jibberish because its only "part" of the whole phrase, i actually took the "arabic wording" from a computer video game (battlefield 2) i have!! alot of my mayhem dio was actually forged from that game...LOL. anyway, i would do a print screen on areas i "wanted" then would paste them into word, scale to the size i wanted then print them out. for my "stenciling, i would put the picture i printed on a window so the outside light would show through, then place and draw/trace over it on my 3 x 5 card then used my exacto to cut it out and airbrushed away...! make sense?

well, the phrase is probably just jibberish in that i made a stencil (cut out of 3 x 5 card) for my mayhem dio and only used a part of it for this then air brushed it on...figured it looked good and that was good enough in this case. i also like the scribed brick one. i'm sure if i was really careful i could've scribed them straight and made them uniform, but i didnt think it mattered and in the end like ya said, they're hand made anyway and probably not all that straight!!

I hear ya. Besides, I think that you "made up for" the detail in your figs etc. I think that you're building in mayhem is perfect. Don't have 2nd thoughts about it ....

I went back and re-read this thread again, and chris brings up some good points. While I think that the styrene brick wall looks good, it's not all that accurate when talking about Iraq/ Afghan. The bricks are more manufactured than they are hand-made. I think he called it .... character.

Just curious, just how did you paint on the lettering again? And how did you come up w/ the phrase?

yeah, i hear ya and everyone has their preferences. thanks though for the comps. as i said, the level of detail is what i wanted to put in my mayhem dio...but again, thought of it after the fact. not sure also if i would've been able to do it as i put such a thin layer of spackling compound on it...but whatever...will do for the next one (much smaller btw)!!!!

HOLY CRAP, TOM!!!! Those buildings/ wall look OUTSTANDING!!!! Seriously! Nice job.

I personally, like the first one. I guess it's the one w/ styrene bricks .... I just like how the brick/ mortar lines are a little more defined. They're probably not to scale, but I think whn things are a little more defined in smaller scale, they just look more real. But that might just be me.

Again, nice job on this one. Will be watching ....

thanks, i guess i can get to writing that too! yeah, as if!! sounded good, kind of a play on words and considering what they did over there makes perfect sense!! however, ya seen the title here FIRST folks, so in theory it is copywrite protected!!!

Interesting title- sounds like a good book

there ya go, use it on yours although...i asure you i will build that one as well soon enough!!

ark lets see, it's the same technique i used on my mayhem dio in that i primed the spackling with flat black paint, then a.b. painted the spackling (non brick areas) a medium grey. a.b. painted the spackling areas after that with humbrol #187 sand. i made sure i left the grey around the cracks and spackling not covered (you'll see in the picture). very similiar to painting armor/panel lines with an a.b.!! then a.b. painted the (btw a.b.=airbrushed) bricks humbrol #84 mid stone. after that took my same med. grey and a.b.'d the lines in the bricks. (you could probably save this step by simply painting everything med. grey then adding the sand and mid stone colors while leaving the edges of the grey showing).

anyway, after all that, i applied a raw umber wash to all the lines and details. once done i took a wide brush and using just mineral spirits, lightly (very lightly, the trick is to not lift the paint you laid down as it isnt "dry" yet) whisked my brush of just mineral spirits across the entire thing, bricks and all. what this does is "cleans up" the wash residue and also blends & bleaches the paints. let that dry then dry brush lighter shades while progressively adding white. make since?? let me know if ya need any more info or whatever ok ark. i'll help ya any way i can.

btw, i was thinking of calling this "blackwater...red river" but wasnt too sure on that!

camo junkie wrote:

glad you like it...it's your "picture"!!

yeah but you definitely gave it your own flair, it looks really good- the picture was 2D and I'm glad it inspired you, because I don't think I would have been able to do the 3D version this well, or put it together in a few days like you have. Hey- maybe I'll be able to pick up some tips and better prepare myself for little vignette projects...

Maybe I'll throw a blue door on mine haha

Lookin really good!

What colors/technique (spray it black then dry brush?) did you use for the final coat?  I may use it as I kind of want the house in my fast roping dio to have a similar color/finish...

ya know chris, its funny you say that but i thought the exact same thing with the two of them!! i like the scribed brick one myself! and...lol, i used the same graffitti i used on the other one only "part" of it. glad you like it...it's your "picture"!!

Woah!! I really like how this is turning out, great rendition- even the red graffiti (which I'll admit, I took the idea from your Mayhem dio ) Nice weathering job, great detail

 

Edit- I like the character of the scribed one, while the styrene bricks have more uniformity, they have less character, tough call, guess it depends on what one’s going for.