"The Midnight Retribution"
This was a commissioned piece, just finished yesserday. I took waay too long over this one, but it was for a friend so it wasn't overly urgent.
Essentially, all he wanted was a steampunk Nerf Longstrike; but I went a lil' bit extra and sleeked out the internals, removing the AR and replacing some of the barrel with aluminium piping.
To be honest though, the most fun I had with this was towards the end with (yeeeep, you guessed it!) weathering! I came up with a neato technique for beating up the gold: by using black shoe polish, I covered the whole gold area(s) with black. Once the polish had dried, i took a piece of kitchen roll and rubbed off as much as I could; leaving recesses and interesting parts with black residue, as if they'd been around and about for a while.
"The Midnight Retribution"
This was a commissioned piece, just finished yesserday. I took waay too long over this one, but it was for a friend so it wasn't overly urgent.
Essentially, all he wanted was a steampunk Nerf Longstrike; but I went a lil' bit extra and sleeked out the internals, removing the AR and replacing some of the barrel with aluminium piping.
To be honest though, the most fun I had with this was towards the end with (yeeeep, you guessed it!) weathering! I came up with a neato technique for beating up the gold: by using black shoe polish, I covered the whole gold area(s) with black. Once the polish had dried, i took a piece of kitchen roll and rubbed off as much as I could; leaving recesses and interesting parts with black residue, as if they'd been around and about for a while.