Snake Eyes Build Log
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Assembly
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Prep for painting and priming
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Basecoated
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Customized head. Aluminum wire and greenstuff
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Nope, not good enough. Not happy with this paintjob, it's cruddy. I think I was just impatient.
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This is the MK1 curing oven, to keep dust (and me) away from parts as they dried.
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And while I was building the curing oven, I stripped the parts all the way down. Used OxyClean and Windex. Paint came right off, primer was far more stubborn. Took about 5 hours or brushing/scrubbing/scraping.
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Ok, back to the start.
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I promised I would slow down, and this drying oven helped me do that. By speeding up each drying phase, I'm more willing to wait.
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Had to scrape off the factory paint, and file down seam lines on the Katana, which is 1/12 scale action figure surplus.
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This is a mask i cut out of styrene sheet, for the Ashkirage clan insignia
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Paint coming off has been a constant problem, still need to slow down even more.
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waterslide decal under the clear lens
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Painting done
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Gloss coated before panel lining and waterslides
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A truly WTF moment when I discovered this.
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Prepping for panel lining and waterslides, and this shoulder pad just cracked off. Never seen anything like it.
Commenti
6 January 2019, 23:10
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It seems to me that people that do figures have next level painting skills. Nice work. May I ask how you did the red detail? Was that a straw you made a mask with? There are no captions on your photos
12 January 2019, 06:13
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That is a mask i cut out of a styrene sheet. I tried to cut it out of masking tape, but it wasn't strong enough at that scale.
12 January 2019, 06:24