Maybe say there is some Bismuth in the armour:
That is brilliant!! ... Got the wheels turning. could be as simple as creating a mulitcolored undercoat and then doing the salt masks with various "rust streaks" added to match the color. :)
neat colors and nice use of "scrap plastic" for paint testeing!
Gift cards are a gold mine :)
You Sir, are a trend setter. Your work is cutting edge and I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish I had your powers of imagination. I'm enjoying every progression post you put up.
That means a lot! The feeling is mutual Eddie!
I made these a couple summers ago but it was finally time to construct them. The problem? Well its a flexible 3D object so I needed a way to make them uniform so I hustled to make some impromptu braces after a failed glue attempt revealed they would need it to keep them uniform.
Success! And it made those fiddly bits at the top come together much easier as well!
The Gun in progress. Styrene laminating some very user friendly and easily carved wood (wish I knew the type, but it was like carving a No. 2 pencil)
The aesthetically critical wing boxes in progress. I am using scrap sprue to reinforce the flimsy joints (never throw anything away!)
The outside of the wing boxes next to the gun. You can see here why I prefer the laminated wood method: NO SEAMS! The problem with the plastic origami method is there are seams a plenty! I am going to refine the origami method to get some better results in the future.
I noticed on Star Wars The Clone Wars on CN that the consoles are colored! Doh! Why didn't I think of that?! So I tried with Yellow:
The black lines are not perfect but I was not worried about perfection here, and most them won't be visible save for a few. A lot of what you are seeing are "practice swings" I do like it though, opens up even more possibilities
It was scary easy to create a EF Typhoon look with the Tomcat. Just playing around, a little side project for the Taiidan Empire