Striking projects from my list, left, right and centre. It’s been a busy and productive year, and I have used my quiet days to finish all my bust sculpt painting.
I managed to do about three hundred water slide decals on the Double Zeta Gundam I got for Christmas several years ago, and gloss coated it, and did the final assembly.
And most recently I finally got around to painting, adding the water slide decals, and then practice weathering my VF-1 Macross Gerwalk 1/72 scale model which has been built and left untouched for ages. I will readily admit I wanted a pristine, off the factory floor paint job, but I mucked it up, so a rusted beat up version is how I salvaged my work, and got a chance to practice some new weathering techniques and grime washes.
** I’ve just realized I cheated a bit with the far away photo. So here is a closer view, top down, of some of that grime, chipping, rust, and dirt weathering i did. You can see just how askew some of my decals are. The gritty paint application made them far less easy to manoeuvre when placed incorrectly. Or not at all in some cases due to the friction from a lumpy/textured surface finish..
I have to come to terms with the fact that my one size fits all airbrush is great for broad surfaces, and gradients (think body of sculptures I make) and not so keen for panel lines and fine detail. The unit , or gun more specifically, isn’t built for fine detail and finesse work. Also my taping and masking could use some more practice. I also need to leave my mechanical models in pieces so that I can add all the details in without fighting the model physically to do so. I’ll have to keep all of that in mind when I finally tackle my massive resin chonker that currently resides, in pieces in my office closet. It’ll stand nearly 16 inches tall when done. I don’t want to rush, nor fuck it up. I bought it the year my eldest was born, and wanted to get good at the technical side of model building before I got into it. Not entirely there yet, but if i don’t start it, i never will. It’s going to be slow moving, because i have to wash all the mould release off of the resin. Sand it all, pull the pour spouts off the larger chunks, fill holes, straighten out warped bits, and then do more sanding, and panel line clean up. Could be 200 to 300 hours of work. Including masking, painting, ink washes, and decals. Magnets and pins. Oh my. This thing is a real under taking. Makes me nervous just to think about!
Tomorrow is supposed to be a massive storm day. So I am wrestling with whether or not to walk the kids to & from school tomorrow, or have them stay home. I don’t think I’ll have any new work tomorrow, so it’s just a matter of if they fight all morning, or look as though they can sit and watch a movie in peace. We can play in the snow too, but not if they are fighting and whiney. We gotta clean up if they want Santa to have any room to put gifts on the floor by the Christmas tree. I also need to buy them some Excedrin PM, to get them into bed at a reasonable hour come Christmas Eve! They’re too pumped up! So amped it! So. Much. Energy. All the time with them, it’s just go, go , go, and what have you done for me lately! Ha. My fault, I suppose. Too nice.
All the best to you and yours. Stay well out there. Be safe in the coming storm. Ciao Bella!
***Additional note: I meant to add that I also painted up the Aliens from my Nemesis board game from Awaken Realms. That was a fairly quick job, as I used the air brush for that. It involved priming the pieces black. Then using a grey primer to add a zenithal high light from the top down. Then one quick blast of a blue grey paint, with some blood red splotches for the carnage those aliens cause. Took me about an hour to paint up sixteen or so 75mm items on 50mm bases. I could always go back to pick out some finer details, but I think it’s great as is. I could do the Void Seeders next, but we will see. My kids are still too little to play a competitive board game like this. I have boxes of monsters from Tainted Grail, Fall of Avalon to give a once over too. I think I want to give them more than just a one colour splash with a sepia wash though. That could take weeks with how many there are. No matter. That’s a 2023 issue, or later. Cheers!
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