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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 16, 2016 13:39:24 GMT -5
I didn't like any of the blues the kit came in so I painted them matte black since he's a stealth fighter initially, I darkened the gold and gave it an orange tint, did the detail work in silver, gold, black, orange and metallic purple; his Zoid Core is darker and smokier to go with the stealth/prototype theme. The base is made from real wood I cut from my garden then dried out and sealed in clear coat, the ferns/shrubs are wired plastic and silk bits that I scavenged years ago from some horrible fake plant in a lobby that was being thrown out.
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Post by Maethius on Sept 16, 2016 15:36:46 GMT -5
Really clean look... more is not always more, Kotobukiya! I've thought about increasing the stealhy look of mine by painting the gold over with burnt iron, making it far darker.
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Post by Leon35 on Sept 16, 2016 15:49:56 GMT -5
Can you list what paints you used? I am sick of the colors Koto picks for most of the HMM kits and I want to make the stock kits look a lot nicer. Did you repaint the Fox with the same matte black you used on the guns?
It has been my opinion lately that Zoids, without some sort of diorama, look kind of boring; they need to be displayed in some sort of environment for them to be things worth looking at. You did an awesome job with this! I am jealous that you get to display something so beautiful.
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Post by Gojulas Omega on Sept 16, 2016 16:15:16 GMT -5
Nice work.
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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 16, 2016 16:28:24 GMT -5
Really clean look... more is not always more, Kotobukiya! I've thought about increasing the stealhy look of mine by painting the gold over with burnt iron, making it far darker. Thanks and good idea on the burnt iron! I just liked the gold for some reason but needed to darken it and have a "realish" fox feel with the hints of orange also to go with the supplied orange clear parts and painted lights on his front legs. I decided not to give him any weathering as when we first encounter him he's a brand new prototype being tested in the forest. (Less is more: Bauhaus)
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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 16, 2016 16:47:44 GMT -5
Can you list what paints you used? I am sick of the colors Koto picks for most of the HMM kits and I want to make the stock kits look a lot nicer. Did you repaint the Fox with the same matte black you used on the guns? It has been my opinion lately that Zoids, without some sort of diorama, look kind of boring; they need to be displayed in some sort of environment for them to be things worth looking at. You did an awesome job with this! I am jealous that you get to display something so beautiful. Thank you so much! I feel these HMM kits can have so much character and life given to them by their amazing posability that they deserve a dio to bring out their individual characters. As for paints I cant be much help to be honest, I mix my own using mostly acrylic paints from Game Color, Game Air, Model Color, Vallejo Color, Scale Color, Daley Rowney, Chiltern Arts, many inks from the same companies as well as a lot of acrylic sprays from companies like Monster and then just generic acrylic sprays for cars, home deco etc.. I have mixed in real sand, earth, chalks, plaster etc.. for textures and even Coca-Cola for a weathering wash  . Just experiment, there are no real rules aside from your standard colour wheel. Try making your own colour wheel to get a feel for mixes and shades of colour, it's a good exercise and could be a useful reference tool in the future. |
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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 16, 2016 16:48:20 GMT -5
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Post by Vig on Sept 17, 2016 1:38:06 GMT -5
Awesome work and photography. Very beautiful.
Ferns were a good choice too, Those things can get freaking huge. So doesn't even look out of place scale wise next to a zoid.
Thinking now I'd like to see how a Bonsai looks next to a zoid.
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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 17, 2016 3:59:13 GMT -5
Awesome work and photography. Very beautiful. Ferns were a good choice too, Those things can get freaking huge. So doesn't even look out of place scale wise next to a zoid. Thinking now I'd like to see how a Bonsai looks next to a zoid. Thank you very much Vig! A bonsai tree, cool idea, I guess it would look like a very big bonsai tree! Seriously though, do you mean a real living one or a fake one? Now you've got me thinking about getting a real one as I don't have any plants in the house.. |
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Post by Vig on Sept 18, 2016 2:00:51 GMT -5
Awesome work and photography. Very beautiful. Ferns were a good choice too, Those things can get freaking huge. So doesn't even look out of place scale wise next to a zoid. Thinking now I'd like to see how a Bonsai looks next to a zoid. Thank you very much Vig! A bonsai tree, cool idea, I guess it would look like a very big bonsai tree! Seriously though, do you mean a real living one or a fake one? Now you've got me thinking about getting a real one as I don't have any plants in the house.. I guess that would depend on your budget  Undoubtedly though a real one would be much nicer. |
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Post by shovelchop81 on Sept 18, 2016 4:59:48 GMT -5
Thank you very much Vig! A bonsai tree, cool idea, I guess it would look like a very big bonsai tree! Seriously though, do you mean a real living one or a fake one? Now you've got me thinking about getting a real one as I don't have any plants in the house.. I guess that would depend on your budget Undoubtedly though a real one would be much nicer. Ah...I take it real ones are expensive then... don't know much about plants outside of my biology A level! |
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Post by shovelchop81 on Oct 26, 2016 14:53:08 GMT -5
Researched a lot about bonsai trees after this, turns out that they're just regular trees that are forced to stay small, complicated by design and tortured into shape with loads of wires and special cutting tools......I daren't comment anymore on how that may or may not reflect on Japan as a national pastime but sounds familiar...lol.
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Post by Phenotype on Oct 26, 2016 23:33:39 GMT -5
Researched a lot about bonsai trees after this, turns out that they're just regular trees that are forced to stay small, complicated by design and tortured into shape with loads of wires and special cutting tools......I daren't comment anymore on how that may or may not reflect on Japan as a national pastime but sounds familiar...lol. If you're referring to foot binding, that was a practice in Imperial China, not Japan. |
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Post by shovelchop81 on Oct 27, 2016 9:21:08 GMT -5
Researched a lot about bonsai trees after this, turns out that they're just regular trees that are forced to stay small, complicated by design and tortured into shape with loads of wires and special cutting tools......I daren't comment anymore on how that may or may not reflect on Japan as a national pastime but sounds familiar...lol. If you're referring to foot binding, that was a practice in Imperial China, not Japan. Very true. I was actually referring to Japan's infatuation and necessity to make everything tiny from brilliant engineering to torturously small living accommodations like those tiny cube "apartments" or the morgue rack like "hotels" where you literally only have a sliding pallet for a bed that is stacked with hundreds of other customers' pallets like a sci-fi movie holding a whole race in stasis to colonise a new planet! Ironically and thankfully I wouldn't even be allowed one as I have tattoos, saw it on a documentary about Japan. So I guess if you aren't even allowed a proper bed there's no way you'll have space for a normal tree! Come to think of it, Transformers are a perfect example (as they originated in Japan as Diaclones and Macross etc. plus I'm sure Takara designs most of them not Hasbro), you can get up to six toys in one due to brilliant engineering and a fantastic space saver for kids' toys! Never thought of them that way before and I've got a Bsc(hons) in product design! DUH!. |
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