Here's some stuff half-done.
The Super-torso assembled, puttied, sanded, (puttied, sanded, puttied, sanded....) and primed. White primer on white plastic against a white background, sorry 'bout that.
Brick wall sections. I primed with gray enamel just to give a darkish color underneath everything, then laid in the mortar lines in gray-white acrylic. Individual bricks painted in shades of Testors square-bottle rust, tinted with random mixes of tan, brown and gray. (The color variations are more obvious to the eye than in the photo.) Finished section attached to one of the crumpled I-beams. Once all the bricks are done I'll go back and add a wash to the cracks, then weather with oil filters and drubrushing, more on the "outside," less on the "inside."
.The kit's decals for the tunic and cape logos are notoriously useless, pretty much solvent-proof and completely unwilling to lay down (particularly over the compound curves of the chest muscles). I pondered the possibility of making masks, then just bit the kryptonite bullet and decided to hand-paint the logo, at least on the chest. I laid out a suitable version in pencil (a bit larger than the kit decal, as well), then grabbed my trusty 3/0 brush and had at it. In progress:
And more-or-less done, minus a bit of retouching, cleaning and smoothing of brushstrokes:
That's it for now. Thanks, Gamera, for the words of encouragement. Up, up and away!