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I started to add street level signs. I also started to age the building, but I'm only half way done. I need to add sidewalks, street details, finish aging the building, finish the front signs etc.
I need to go over it with emery cloth to smooth out the file & sandpaper marks, then use a tiny x-acto chisel knife to clean out the notches, but it doesn't look NEARLY the bodge it looked like over the weekend.
The short hood notches on the modifed rs32 hood on 578 are much smaller than the notches on the homebuilt hood on 10001 (and the hood on 576 is considerably longer than the one of 10001, which I guess means that rsc2s were longer than rs3s?)
This is how the front facade looks so far.
I still need to paint the trim on the top, adjust the roof piece, finish aging and painting the billboard section, and add signage.
I still need to do a little bit of weathering still to the building.
a mock up of the two office buildings. The pieces are just sitting on each other so it's not perfectly lined up yet.
I sold my original Heljan kit over a year ago with a bunch of other kits. I had built it about 10 years ago and I was really not happy with the quality of the model I had...since I have learned so much more about modeling.
So I bought two of these and decided to kitbash them.
a fellow boardie over at the 3A Forum, name of wwwetworks, asked me if i'd liked to paint up one of his cool kitbash customs.
it's based on ashley woods Adventure Kartel (AK) Zombot, with added WWRp Bramble arms.
of course i said yes!
what's cooler than to paint up a zombie???
it was a lot of fun, indeed!
thanks again for this cool job, carlo!
Making 25 floors..then I had to cut an evenly spaced hole in the middle of each one before painting them dark grey.
used the following gundams for kitbash
1Red Frame Astray
2Legend Gundam
3Aegis Gundam
4Sword Strike Gundam
Figure / boots: Ultra Corps snowboarder
Uniform: vintage 70's Action Man
I think this custom 12' Snow Job turned out super! Can't wait to use him in the snow :D
Ripping apart 5 building kits. It took some time to get the windows out with out breaking them as they are glued in.
Headmaster Duros. This is a little bit of a teaser for a project I am soon to finish up. I got a little ahead of myself and wanted to post these tonigh (no pun intended)
Duros was built using mainly U. Nightstick and lower legs from a minicon, who's name I don't remember. I added HLJ ball joints at the hips giving it even more articulation. He stands about 1.75" tall.
I started to detail the top section. Though I'm only have way done. I need to spend a good hour or so painting and detailing the roof and top piece.
Then I need to glue on advertisements on the signs.
Roof details. I aged and weathered the roof. I also added an extra Chimney, vent, and air conditioner.
I've been wanting to make this figure for a long time, finally found a decent looking uniform to make it happen, this is based on the US soldiers that responded to the 'black mesa incident' in the first half-life and it's expansions
known as 'human grunts' they fought against the invading aliens, the player. and pretty much everyone in an attempt to contain and coverup the incident,
their uniforms have long since been a favorite of mine and I'm glad I've finally got one in my collection, I'd love to make more but I have no idea where this uniform came from haha
Custom buildings are not the easiest structures to build for a relative novice like myself. I originally was going to use Walthers' Modulars Kits for this project, but W.K. Walthers discontinued them. Therefore, I used DPM kits instead. The annex is a Pola Pickle Factory kit.
All I really got done today was painting the facade walls. I also have to clean up a few of the edges still on the panel parts. I'm looking forward to doing a lot more work on this tomorrow. (Saturday)
I'll hopefully get the building together and start to add details, and weathering to the facade as well.
I'm going to modify the top a little bit and the ground floor entry from how the kit comes out of the box.
I also like the dull brown over the bright lime green. Once this is weathered it'll bring the facade to life as well.
More to come tomorrow.
Painting and markings:
This was quite a challenge, because I initially was not certain who the manufacturer and operator of this fictional aircraft should be? Japan and Sweden were initial choices, but since there had been some indigenous and quite exotic designs after WWII I eventually settled for Switzerland. Another reason for this choice was the fact that I had wanted to apply the rather unique “layered” camouflage on a model, and this was great opportunity.
I have no information about the colors/tones that had been used, e. g. on some Doflug D-3801/03 fighters or one or two EFW P.16 prototypes. But apparently some darker shades, including dark green and earth brown (and probably more!) were applied with broad brushes or even a mop over a grey uniform basis, probably the same light tone that was used for the undersides. From the poor b/w pics I’d say that every aircraft received an individual pattern, and I used a color picture of a P.16 (which offered a good view on the upper surfaces, even though in a very weathered state) as benchmark and tried to replicate the look.
Things started with an overall coat with Humbrol 165 (RAF Medium Sea Grey). Then I used thinned acrylic paint to layer wavy lines with Revell 45 (Farngrau, close to RLM02) and 82 (Earth), both tones offered only little contrast to the underlying grey. Then came more wiggles with 42 (Gelboliv, RAL 6014) and finally with 84 (Lederbraun, RAL 8027) – resulting in a very disruptive pattern that really breaks up the airframe’s outlines and hides almost all surface details. Disturbingly effective!
The cockpit was painted in a very dark grey (Revell 06, Anthracite) and the landing gear as well as the respective wells in a mix of Humbrol 11 and 165, for a dull metallic grey.
After that the model received an overall black ink washing as well as some post-shading on the lower surfaces – a futile task on the upper camouflage, because of its cluttered character!
Markings became minimal, just with Swiss roundels procured from an F-5E sheet for the fins and from a generic markings sheet from TL Modellbau for the bigger wing markings. The tactical code was adapted from a Swiss BAe Hawk trainer (U-1257, the U was turned into a J with a cutter knife…). To add some color I painted the spinner red and added fictional unit markings to the nose, as well as some red warning markings, stencils and fake louvres around the engine.
a fellow boardie over at the 3A Forum, name of wwwetworks, asked me if i'd liked to paint up one of his cool kitbash customs.
it's based on ashley woods Adventure Kartel (AK) Zombot, with added WWRp Bramble arms.
of course i said yes!
what's cooler than to paint up a zombie???
it was a lot of fun, indeed!
thanks again for this cool job, carlo!