havoc
Heya, Gunpla,
Count me in for the build! While I'm currently trying to finish painting a Lunadiver I've been working on since November, I'm too far along with that for the GB, so I've started my Wave Snake Eye for the build. Was thinking about given the entire suit a pitted cast texture, the type of which you'd see on a composite hulled Sherman or a similar vehicle.
Also hoping to try to emulate the paint style of the amazing Lincoln Wright --- of course it would take me about a hundred years to successfully do that!! I am a huge fan of his paint work especially and would love to try some of his techniques... The textures and layers and colors he achieves are remarkable!
Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to post pictures here? I've never posted an image before. :O
Thanks, folks!
Regards and Aloha,
Johnny B.
Hello Johnny B. glad to see another interested builder for the GB. Hey, great choice of individual to emulate your painting skill after. I am not sure about his way of doing his art work, but I can say you can achieve some outstanding effects with MIG Filters and pigments, to this you also can apply washes and chipping. I will be trying some of these out for the 1st time and I guess I will be the Guinea Pig and help as best I can with this new type paint effects. You know the in thing for painting Ma.K is to do it like Kow did, by hand, that's right, the good ole fashion way w/o OMG, an airbrush. I will cheat and apply the base color by airbrush, but the rest I will and plain on doing by hand. Much like the way the military figure fellas paint. Just now learning about filters which are not the same as a wash. Maybe one of the master builders, like Cosmic J, can tutor us on this.
As for posting photos, go to Photobucket.com, register and follow their instruction for creating a folder, then go to photo, left click URL address, when you see copy in yellow, right click, then hit paste, return to your thread hit paste and photo is transferred to thread. Anybody else have any other info to help Johnny B post photos.
Now lets talk about this current build you have been working on, I do want a WIP from the start, but hey we like to see the pretties you are working on now too. I look forward to you posting and welcome to the loony farm, but the guys here are good fellas and willing to help.
Snake Eye, great kit and subject. Composite cast armor, oh yea,now you get the idea, take that sucker to the next step outside of the box build. smeagol had a great suggestion for this, Mr. Surfacer 500 applied by a stiff brush works and you can also use a small piece of sponge locked into a set of tweezers w/the Mr. Surfacer, be careful really builds up fast, but man does it create armor scaling. Good ole Dremel, set speed to slow w/a ball bit, move quick while you use and keep moving around, great sand cast effect from this method. Hope this has been of some help, oh I saw the Aloha part, I'm sooo jealous, lets see what I can say about where I an @ ya'll come back, hear! Looking forward to your work and again would like to see the Lunadiver!