Mechs Without Skirts

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Air battle

If anyone knows who made this diorama please tell me to give Him/Her credit.

This is awesome, the pictures are not the best quality but I think this is how an airplane diorama should look like, the exiting part of a plane comes from when it's flying, a landed plane is like an orgy without naked people.

Monday, July 20, 2015

Weapons

More often than not the weapons are the most boring part of a Mech scale model, so instead of finishing your time with it with a bang, you end up with a boring experience, that's why for a time now i decided to never let the weapons for last, I do them at the beginning or at the middle.

The problem with weapons is that they are usually two pieces sandwiched together with a few extra pieces for details, no color separation.

this particular set of weapons took me allot of time because the lack of color separation, because that means that if you want to break the monotony of the color you'll need to mask allot, and I mean allot, I spent 80% of the time masking this things.

I decided to do the weapons for a future project at the same time, this kit shared weapons with it so, I went ahead and did those.

weapons in AC kits are highly detailed, and are very important on the kits, that's why it makes it even more painful the lack of separation of pieces

They took allot of time, I like the way they look, I'm still planing on applying some decals and weathering, but the time consuming part it's done.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Alicia Unsung WIP2

The legs are done, damn, they look weird, I also finished cleaning the VF-0C

Next: Weapons

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Alicia Unsung WIP1

I thought that I was never going to do a work in progress post again, but after the latest VF-0C fiasco, I had to share what I've been doing because, it's so damn cool but it's time consuming the new project is the 1/72 Kotobukiya Alicia Unsung.

The kit comes in a cool metallic black runners, if you don't mind the lines where the two pieces join the kit looks great even without paint, i decided to paint it, at this point I cant stand those lines, but also there are allot of details screaming to be painted, so, Im painting everything, I changed the metallic black for a German gray and flat black scheme, and Im painting all the little details to pop em up, I'm not rushing this one and so far I'm happy with the preliminary result.

Also, I've been cleaning the VF-0C

Also, I promise there will be no more Machete posts...
for a little while.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Game of thrones in steroids

To make the HBO's series even better and surpass the books by a mile, this must happen:

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Moving on...

For the past two months I've been working on the VF-0C, I was very happy when I got this limited edition kit for a reasonable price, but, I didn't wanted the scheme pictured in the box, and I don't want another grey plane, so it was time to try something new...

Without good results.

I don't remember where I saw this kind of triangular camo, and I decided to give it a try, but the result is not great, the medium blue stands out too much, and there was paint bleed everywhere.

I swear, the bleed was not my fault, I used a tamiya masking sheet to do the pattern, and it was a nightmare to work with it, it didn´t stayed in place, not even on the flat surfaces, imagine the dissaster on the curved places.

so I´m not shure what to do with it, I could do the slow process of correcting the bleed, hoping that helps with the overall look, I could take away the camo and repaint.