International Scale Modeller

ladip63 wrote:WOW!! Great work Scott. I'll be following this
Lynn

Thank you Lynn and welcome to ISM...like I am the Ambassador.
I am the guy they hide in the back so I don't frighten everyone off
Anyways happy to have you along

felisbarcinonensis wrote:Great progress! So many details in such a small a scale. KUTGW

Thank you Felis, appreciate you looking in
My eyes and neck are hurting with this kit's size for sure
I had to look up KUTGW....I don't think anyone has ever said that to me before

TheWeasel wrote:Excellent work! Really bringing this small thing to live.

Thank you mate and for the comment
I am doing all this work and then I am going to dump it in muck and cover it in green slime
One of my more brilliant plans

Now we can see something
Man, those details in this scale.... I take my hat off for you
Guess your eyes were hurting as well after painting this

Btw I don't know KUTGW either..

Oh man that level of detail is awesome

Lovely work mate

Holy crap Scott!!
That's fantastic detail for 1/72. Well far better than anything I can do at that scale.
Damn that's nice.

peppie wrote:Now we can see something
Man, those details in this scale.... I take my hat off for you
Guess your eyes were hurting as well after painting this

Btw I don't know KUTGW either..

Keep up the good work KUTGW
those tight photos really show how chunky my paint is
I am fighting the urge to dip R2 in the oven cleaner

Nige201980 wrote:Lovely work mate

Thanks man

EasyEight96 wrote:Oh man that level of detail is awesome

Well thank you....I don't know about awesome
The Bandai kit is great, she pops together really well nice fit and finish
Detail painting might be interesting, we shall see

Coen wrote:Holy crap Scott!!
That's fantastic detail for 1/72. Well far better than anything I can do at that scale.
Damn that's nice.

High praise from Mr C.!
Thanks very much
I think I just read something you wrote about never being happy with ones work and when the day comes that you are, you should stop doing it.....very true, I have self criticism down to a fine art form.
Every time I look at R2 he beeps "oven bath" to me

Twokidsnosleep wrote:I am fighting the urge to dip R2 in the oven cleaner

Looks like you brush painted the white as well.
Why not use the ab for the white?

Nope the white was fine primer spray can
Brushed clear on him after for gloss and protection

Sucks loading up the AB to do such small stuff....handling parts, low paint volumes CLEAN UP
I don't think many small war game figure guys use AB after the black primer they use
Just needed my paint better mixed as pigment was too chunky
I will mask and paint the body with the AB though

I found a second R2 D2 in the kit and am making him up....will use the decals this time and see how it compares to my fugly paint job
The fugly one will get slimed in the diorama and the pretty one displayed...if you can display 1/72 figures

Amazing detail painting, Scott. Loving your build thread.

Willem wrote:Amazing detail painting, Scott. Loving your build thread.

Thanks Will, always good to hear from you

I have been researching figure painting over the last few days. There are some amazing figure work that guys are doing, especially in the fantasy game D&D kind of areas. The skills are very humbling, but hopefully I can pick up a few things. 1/72 scale is ludicrous to work in!!!
Looks like I need to move away from my Tamiya acrylic paints which opens up a whole can of worms as to what acrylic paint to get into

Vallejo model colour and life colour are really good brush paints.
But if you're going to be going into figure painting in a more serious way then maybe some of the scale 75 range is more what you want to look at.
Tamiya is meant to be sprayed. It's alcohol based (says so on the label as well as thier site) so it dries uber fast. Not really the best for brush painting.
You can retard it with lacquer thinners or or products, but myself, I prefer a paint that will do more than one thing and I don't have to "fix" it.

Coen wrote:Vallejo model colour and life colour are really good brush paints.
But if you're going to be going into figure painting in a more serious way then maybe some of the scale 75 range is more what you want to look at.
Tamiya is meant to be sprayed. It's alcohol based (says so on the label as well as thier site) so it dries uber fast. Not really the best for brush painting.
You can retard it with lacquer thinners or or products, but myself, I prefer a paint that will do more than one thing and I don't have to "fix" it.

Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking at. There are many new colours Vallejo is making for the world of gamers....brighter colours
I was thinking Model Air for spray and Model Colour/Game Colour for brush
Where the heck do you buy this stuff though????

If you can't find it at a modelshop, try it at a Airbrushshop. Sorry, I don't know of any where you live..

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking at. There are many new colours Vallejo is making for the world of gamers....brighter colours
I was thinking Model Air for spray and Model Colour/Game Colour for brush
Where the heck do you buy this stuff though????

I buy almost all of my paint from Luckymodel (http://www.luckymodel.com( or Greathobbies (http://www.greathobbies.com/)

The trick with luckymodel is when you're searching for paint... search for the paint itself, don't click the "Paint" tab and look there. You probabaly won't find what you're looking for.
Also... if it says it's out of stock for 2-3 weeks restock, don't order it anyway. Chances are they won't fulfill your order and they won't tell you either.
They see it as your responsibility to keep track of the orders that you place.
When you ask them about it they'll give you a store credit for your order. They don't give money back unless you do a paypal dispute. and if you do that they won't sell to you anymore

Awesome, that is the inside info I needed
Thanks a bunch

Howdy
Got the rough engine and wing assembly done during the week and finished R2D2 #2 tonight. Have to decide if I mix my own xf-19 sky grey or wait until next weekend when my model shops are open again.
Top right is a little rebel-decaled part holder cup made one bored night...has a lead bottom.



#2 R2 is definitely a cleaner paint job overall, but will use #1 in the dio

Great progress,I like where this build is headed!

Hillbilly wrote:Great progress,I like where this build is headed!

My progress is so slow it is not even funny....like my feet are in the swamp!!
Delaying doing the airbrush spray and mixing paint, so I made part holders
Spent yesterday tearing apart my woodworking desk in the garage to pack it up for a move
The modelling desk will be next

Fired up the table saw one last time in the old garage and trimmed the base




Hope I have enough length now for the trees and swamp and such
Got the wings and body primed tonight as well, hopefully painted this week
Now bedtime

COOOL!!!!

Another brave soul; sinking a nice kit in the muck! It's coming along very nicely!

Thanks guys

Awesome!

ladip63 wrote:Awesome!

Thank you Lynn
Appreciate the support
I think I better stop blabbing and posting the diorama...not leaving any surprises

Rough work so far

What a cool idea!!

Danta2er wrote:What a cool idea!!

Thanks
I was going to keep that secret, but apparently I blab
Lots of work to make the green GI figure look like a camera man rather than someone shooting at Luke with a brass rocket launcher
Just trying to do something a bit different

Hmmm That picture looks familiar...

I like where this is going. Keep it up!

mincemeat wrote:Hmmm That picture looks familiar...

I like where this is going. Keep it up!

Yep, your pic was the inspiration...and all the extra work is all your fault
I have to work on getting the scale of things in the film area correct, harder than I thought
Good to do something a little different; I am a bit of a quirky jokester if you haven't noticed by now

You are building it as the film set???!!! (Like all the smilies?)
Nothing left to exclaim.

DBMiller wrote:You are building it as the film set???!!! (Like all the smilies?)
Nothing left to exclaim.

"We're going to make a moooovie"

Great layout and planing lookin forward to seeing more

A www DUDE!!!!!
That's freaking excellent!

Thank you gentlemen
After all, it is just a fantasy movie
Whereas Austin Powers is real!!!

Damn dude!....
Just realised you now building the film set....
Awesome stuff.... "The force is strong here!.."
Good luck Scott...
Camping here too now....

wappynutter wrote:Damn dude!....
Just realised you now building the film set....
Awesome stuff.... "The force is strong here!.."
Good luck Scott...
Camping here too now....

You are hilarious
I am no Star Wars expert, just enjoyed the films so I may need to pick your brain on things.
That was the only film pic I found of the set for Dagobah

So this is what I am trying to make this afternoon


Some random guy sitting with his camera...Jeff or George or something he said his name was

So pretty rough but here is my path of destruction so far
Rods n stuff


Camera on rails and a pin so it is moveable l to r and rotates


Wood planks are glued in and pilings made of wood dowel test fitted. Testing some paint and stain on the wood
I did some wood work, some metal work, soldering and a lot of CA gluing
The camera will look better when painted and detailed
I think I am spent for the night

The good thing about being a dog owner is you don't look like a lunatic scrounging around in the bush looking for twigs with moss and lichen on them
I bought a bag at the LHS as well to supplement

I could not bring myself to buy the water effects stuff from the same company.....it was $35!!!! for like 500ml
There has to be something else out there that is cheap

Found some funny Star Wars stuff today

So, I look away for a short moment (you know....life) and you come up with this great idea

If someone can pull this off, it would be you Scott

peppie wrote:So, I look away for a short moment (you know....life) and you come up with this great idea

If someone can pull this off, it would be you Scott

Hey thanks man, I appreciate that
It is all working out pretty well so far, just have to figure that water out
I should not have to spend as much on the water effect as I did on the kit!!!

Some stormtrooper humor

Dio looking sweet...love the camera

Funnies ...excelent

kiwigav wrote:Dio looking sweet...love the camera

Funnies ...excelent

Thanks Gav, I am having fun