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This was a belated present from my son. He ordered it before Christmas ready for my birthday in early January, but it was on back order seemingly everywhere, so it finally turned up at the end of Feb.
It's the first one of these that I've put together myself and have to say the mouldings are better than anything I've seen. Super clean & sharp, with not a single ejector pin mark anywhere. Minimal clean up and a perfect fit. Just how I like it lol.
Painting was initially fraught, as I wanted to spray it in AK acrylics 11179 Ultramarine, but had a heck of a time. 4 different mixes, 4 full strips of the airbrush and it was still splatting out white blobs. It must have been a faulty bottle as after an overnight bath in methylated spirits to strip it back to plastic I switched to a slightly different colour (11180 Imperial Blue) and it sprayed bang on from the start. I did a fair bit of shading and highlighting with the airbrush, but as usual I'm not sure I've captured it well on camera. Lots of brush painting followed, mostly with the AK acrylics, apart from the metallics which were either Citadel or Vallejo Model Air (I'm not keen on the AK metallics)
Base is a mixture of Woodland Scenics turf, brown & green tea leaves, and some base material and tufts from Geek Gaming. Wall was carved from peeled foamboard
It's still early days on the learning curve with these but I'm happy with how it has turned out, even the freehand letters on his chest scroll are acceptable. The eagle eyed will notice that there's a piece missing. It pinged off my tweezers so could be anywhere!
This was a belated present from my son. He ordered it before Christmas ready for my birthday in early January, but it was on back order seemingly everywhere, so it finally turned up at the end of Feb.
It's the first one of these that I've put together myself and have to say the mouldings are better than anything I've seen. Super clean & sharp, with not a single ejector pin mark anywhere. Minimal clean up and a perfect fit. Just how I like it lol.
Painting was initially fraught, as I wanted to spray it in AK acrylics 11179 Ultramarine, but had a heck of a time. 4 different mixes, 4 full strips of the airbrush and it was still splatting out white blobs. It must have been a faulty bottle as after an overnight bath in methylated spirits to strip it back to plastic I switched to a slightly different colour (11180 Imperial Blue) and it sprayed bang on from the start. I did a fair bit of shading and highlighting with the airbrush, but as usual I'm not sure I've captured it well on camera. Lots of brush painting followed, mostly with the AK acrylics, apart from the metallics which were either Citadel or Vallejo Model Air (I'm not keen on the AK metallics)
Base is a mixture of Woodland Scenics turf, brown & green tea leaves, and some base material and tufts from Geek Gaming. Wall was carved from peeled foamboard
It's still early days on the learning curve with these but I'm happy with how it has turned out, even the freehand letters on his chest scroll are acceptable. The eagle eyed will notice that there's a piece missing. It pinged off my tweezers so could be anywhere!
