This is the second SPALAH figure I've built from their line of "STALKER" figures,
"Scientist SSP-99 "Ecologist":
The vented cover for the scientist's instrument was lost at some point between printing and my getting the figure ready for paint. There were some minor print defects - a hole at the top of the figure's head and some minor delamination at the right elbow. That said... I painted - and stripped - this figure 7-8 times: I didn't get the black primer right. I didn't like the orange color. Now it's too red. How about blue? Nah,... finally, yellow seemed OK.
Once that problem was solved, detailed painting and shadowing went by pretty quickly:
Here he is with the resting stalker in the Jonny Quest flyer:
I used a 1/32 aircraft instrument decal for the instrument. I added red and blue marks on each side of the decal:
Jeff Fontaine sent me a couple of Blackdog diorama bases a while ago (Thanks, Jeff!) - I used the
Cracked road with pipe base. The scale wasn't specified, but it worked well with this figure. Painting was pretty quick:
I used a mix of UV glow powders in the broken pipe:
The faceplate was painted with one of the Vallejo color shifting acrylic paints. I found a detailed review of the paints on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0E6tGMmhQI bought the Vallejo The Shifters Space Dust set on Amazon. I think it worked well - two thin layers applied with a brush to a gloss black finish and it dried quickly.
