u/pokedrawer

Thrusters could only drive you up and backwards, no?

Liking it so far. Necrosknight just didnt have enough undead iconography in the design.

I typically go for a very clean paint job but I think I'll try my hand at gore and grime this time.

If you're curious how I attached the arms, I glued 3mm holes under the back plate so it plugs right in from underneath.

Need to figure out how I'll attach a couple more things then on to experimenting with colors

I just slathered it on, waited a minute, and wiped it away with a cotton bud dipped in zippo fluid. It really does make it look old and weathered

Just thought I'd show 2 examples on how you can subtly change the proportions of your projects to give different vibes and feel. Both of these use the knight's torso. The first one then uses the legs and forearms of wizard, and the hands from dragonia, and the knight's original feet. I would have used assassin ankles but couldn't justify buying a whole kit for the ankles lol. It just stretches him out a bit, but it doesn't dip too skinny either. The exaggerated limbs looks a little uncanny as well. Contrast that with the second picture. Fighter forearms and shoulders, knight's biceps, and the legs are still knight's, but with fighter's armor on. Keeps him at main character height, but bulks him out.

I got the idea to play with the proportions from watching YouTubers make girl kits for 30mf, but i thought about how different fighting characters can look in games so I started messing about.

Wanted to try and do a snow white prelude homage but it's kind of giving grey scale katoki. Now I need 2 maganacs and I can make an armadillo glory of losers thing for him

I won the competition!

Plan is to put it on a stand with 3 swords of revealing light. Pretty unhappy with the gold trim but I'm out of time lol. Other mistakes a plenty but I'm proud of it still

Gonna do a dark metallic on that long detail panel and a light pearl blue on the very center smaller detail panel and let the space paint scheme just be on the blade. Build is due in a couple days and I need to panel line and add my decals lol busy busy

Still need to hit the side skirts and weapons but wanted to try marble effects. Probably need to thin my paints more and hit lighter coats to keep the finish cleaner but this is due in like a week so just gotta keep trucking lol

I stripped the diamond white parts. Ive decided to try a marble effect on them to further separate the dragon parts from the regular armor. Currentlt in the process of masking and painting the waist coat and armor now. Primed weapons and wings to paint next. This project has been so much fun and I've gotten the chance to try a ton of things I was always curious about.

Trusting the process was scary! But happy with how it's coming out. Made some mistakes with the sputtering so the surface texture isnt perfect in some spots but I'm satisfied for my first attempt at this sort of thing!

Gotta gloss the armor, satin the silhouette, and finish painting the weapons

I should have taken better before pictures but you can see that after using the floor polish the scratches I had from sanding are gone and things look more translucent! Dump it in and wick off excess. This was 2 dunks with a minute of dry time. I always use it on clear pieces, I keep my actual gloss products for final top coats.

Supplies are all here. Time to finish the blue eyes project. Everything is primed and the first round of metallics is done. Gonna use some tape to do little bits of color separation here and there.

I want to pull off a blue to white gradient on the blue eyes pieces. Want the blue in the recesses and shadows, and a glossy white on top of that. Never tried it but this has been a project of firsts so 🤷

Gonna go for a pure gloss white on the armor pieces that aren't from blue eyes.

Matte white on the side skirts with midnight purple underneath as an homage to Kaiba's iconic jacket. Though on some pictures the inside is red.

Wings are... gonna be a problem. There wasn't a way to gap fill without gluing the membrane and locking it there. I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

Weapom color scheme as of now undecided, but I picked up the assassin class up so I could paint the 3 swords in it to be the 3 swords of revealing light as his defense option.

Combining the lance with the axe as an homage to the lance and axe the Flugel had, and then detail up the shield and weapon. Then back to blue eyes!

Sword mostly done now. I have some details to do and now I need to sculpt tiny eyelids and face folds with putty, but this has been a great learning experience

Got to make some significant progress. I like the mix of parts for the handle and the square and segmented grip makes it feel really solid in the hands of the kit. The handle being so long does make me feel like the blade should be like 50% bigger though.

And it's not even close to done. Scratch building a sword for the custom I'm working on. Meant to look like a wing coming out of a mouth. I still need to:

Add details with tamiya putty and sand

Sand blue eyes head to be round and smooth

Make the fork face frills

Figure out a handle.

Im tired boss