HYGOG

Torsten
I'll take a Seat 🙂

Bart Goesaert
me too...

Nathan Dempsey
I'm in.

Paul Juliano
Sorry guys, I accidentally deleted the album, but it's back with a couple of extra shots in it. Looks like Scalemates is none the wiser, too. 🙂

Nathan Dempsey
But I followed the other one. Now you need to build 2!

Paul Juliano
I'm no masochist, Nate. The seam line removal has taken every trick in the book. Some were fine with just plastic cement and sanding, others took some putty, and others took some superglue to fill gaps and divots.

I usually use acrylic putty, but I'm thinking I should have gone with some of the Tamiya putty that I have. The acrylic stuff is easy to use and doesn't smell, but it doesn't sand as well I don't think.

Nathan Dempsey
I like Tamiya putty. The excess can be easily removed with their Laquer Thinner.

Paul Juliano
That's something I didn't know! I'm putting that tidbit in the toolbox. Thanks!

Paul Juliano
Okay! The majority of the build is done. There are a few bits to complete (some pontoon like things that go under the shoulders) but not much in the way of a seam line slog. I should see if this has been retooled or redesigned since this '89 release and build that as a comparison.

Now, on to painting. The M4 tractor I just completed is blue, so I want to do something else. I asked for advice from my girlfriend (she's an artist and usually has a good color combo up her sleeve) and she said purple shades and yellow accents. I think that'll look really cool, with a main color of a dark purple, and then lighter accents and tonal variations if I can pull that off. The racing stripes are definitely gonna be yellow, and maybe I'll do a paint stripe down the center of his head.

Actually, she said "candy purple" and I said, "no thanks I have other builds I'd like to complete this century."

Slavo Hazucha
Mighty leader of the Blue Lobster folk, rise and free your kind from... whatever terrible fate it is just suffering...!

Looking good, I like the lines, I like the color... Will it receive some weathering or will it go ocean-clean?

Paul Juliano
Thanks Slavo! I'm dying at the blue lobster comment! I definitely will weather this bad boy, he's just screaming for it. And hopefully I can put it some sort of diorama with water coming out of the drainage holes.

Random Penguin
I`m in!

Paul Juliano
Penguin, I just checked out some of your albums! Very nice! If you've got tips on creating tonal variations, which you seem to be GREAT at, I'm all ears.

Random Penguin
Glad to see you like them, Paul! 😉
If you'll check discussion of my spitfire build, you will find lots of my
thoughts and sources of inspiration: Result | Album by rPenguin (1:48) That was really cognitive build for me.
As for main things, that I try to keep in mind, are:
1) try to use semitransparent colors for modulation
2) use several layers
3) don't use black for shading (and mixing colors), only if base color is grey or pretty close to it
4) I don't like classic preshading, so I try to use a whole darker base and highlight it gradually, so there will be no strict boundaries
5) mix colors from close colors if you can
P.S. As for Miyuki, you can call it cheating) It's still diffucult for me to achieve this result from the first attempt

Paul Juliano
Thank you!! I'm going to check that out later.

Daniel
All these Tomcat teasers on your album covers Paul 😄 well - Im hooked 🙂

Paul Juliano
Oh was that in the background there? I had NO idea.

Nathan Dempsey
Is that some new paint I see? Sorry Slavo the blue lobster is no more...

Paul Juliano
It's the rare and elusive Purple and Yellow Lobster!

Slavo Hazucha
Greg voted yellow... 😄

Chris Greathouse
LOL... Looking good Paul!

Paul Juliano
The glue's not quite dry on the jetty yet, but the diorama is starting to come together. Boy, dioramas are addictive.

I want to add some beach scene items, like towels and a few umbrellas. I'd like the scene to read as if everyone was scared off the beach by something other than a shark, which happens very frequently on Cape Cod where I live. (There's even an app to get alerts on sightings.)

I was thinking about making some towels out of tissue paper and diluted white glue, and then painting them after application to the sand surface. For umbrellas, I thought a wire frame with more of the tissue paper. Do you folks have any ideas in that department? This is 1:144 scale, so a six foot towel would be like 8.5mm long...

Once that's done, RESIN POUR! Exciting stuff. 🙂

Chris Greathouse
Paul, What other things scare people off the beach? Weather?

Paul Juliano
Chris, you've obviously never seen me in a speedo.

Bob Hall
Those Mutants from "Jersey Shore" !

Random Penguin
Well, in 1/144 I don`t think you actually need frame for umbrellas, just a central rod, you can paint dark lines on inside of umbrellas like there is a frame) What about surfboards or aqualungs? Or some vertical japanese flags?

Paul Juliano
LOL Bob! That IS a scary sight. No one person should have access to that much hair gel and self tanning spray.

Penguin: Surfboards! That's what I need! That's perfect, thanks. I'm taking a lot of inspiration from the surrounding area, so maybe a kayak, too.

That might work with the umbrellas, good call. I could use stretched sprue for the pole and plastic sheet for the cloth part instead of tissue paper on a frame. Actually, your suggestion will probably be a heck of a lot easier. Thanks again!

Random Penguin
👍 👍
I came up with more! You can make sun loungers, but it's probably difficult, because of their thin armrests and frame.
Heh, I figured out how not to make the frame on the umbrella and how to make the frame again for something else. 🤔

Bart Goesaert
Looking good so far. been a while since I watched the progress, but...

Slavo Hazucha
Nice water! + a stylish color combo with purple & yellow 👍 Fun on the beach! 🙂

Chris Greathouse
Awesome Paul!

Nathan Dempsey
That water looks sweet Paul 🙂

Paul Juliano
Thanks for the encouragement guys. I'm really hoping to enter this in Granite Con this year... Unfortunately most of my models would fall into the "sci-fi" category, so I'm going to be competing against myself quite a bit.

Paul Juliano
Done! Stick a fork in this one.

Nathan Dempsey
Well done Paul. The kit and the whole scene came out nice 🙂

Paul Juliano
Thanks Nathan! I'm going to put this one in a show in a few weeks. My first model show ever!

Chris Greathouse
You did really well with the feet underwater, but it all looks great!

Nathan Dempsey
Awesome Paul. You should have a great time. Dont forget to bring some extra $$$ for the vendor area!

Slavo Hazucha
No idea why this has to go SCI-FI, my kids would happily testify they´ve seen precisely this dude on the beach several times, even had a chat with the pilot & assisted in fighting off a sneak attack of the Barracuda amphibious drone squadron, just all the other people ran away & apparently took no pictures... aaand left the sunshade umbrella in place😉

Random Penguin
Seems lovely, I already want to go to this beach and tame this Hygog!