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It always bums me out that the pictures I post on this thread - while a fairly good representation - never really look like they do in person.
I think I just found out why.
It's the light in my office. It's one of those "soft light" energy saver bulbs and it always makes all these pics look so much "warmer" or something and washes out all the detail.
I just figured this out after doing the little "eye" logo on the boots then taking the piece outside to dullcoat it.
This is what it actually looks like:
Way better, right?
I guess the trick is to take a pic outside, on an overcast day, at 5PM on May 26th.
Therefore, Dev... next update: this time next year. Let's hope for clouds.
Just kidding, Dev! Put down that hammer!
I put another base coat on the torso pieces:
but I think I'm going to reassemble the torso onto the legs - and superglue the chest and back pieces together before continuing. It will give me better leverage for painting if I have a larger surface to hold, and I also have to build the epaulettes, in any case.
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quote:Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac: How DO you do it all, Ex? Photomanipulations, writing, and action figures... Seems like you can do almost anything!
Well, far as we know, he can't grow a giant monster penis capable of throwing Collosal Boy into the ceiling!
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quote:Originally posted by Lard Lad: Well, far as we know, he can't grow a giant monster penis capable of throwing Collosal Boy into the ceiling!
The operative phrase, of course, being... "far as we know".
OK, I was stoked about the progress yesterday, so I decided to keep on trucking, and so...
"Dev of Two Worlds"
Part 10: Seeing Red
This will be kind of a short update - and probably a bit boring because there's not much to see - but I figured it might be interesting to show how long the painting step actually takes me. (I'm not complaining, mind you... I actually find this bit very relaxing.)
As I mentioned up above, to make painting the torso a little easier, I reassembled the whole thing, gluing the chest and the back together again.
I also mentioned that I had put a second base coat on the five pieces. Well... that equates to a third of what is actually necessary to get a decent base.
You can't just paint it like a house. Each coat has to be very thin... you don't want to gum up the details or have a bunch of brushstrokes showing.
So...
Then I dry brushed in the highlights:
As I noted yesterday, don't put too much stock in the color shown in the pic - that's just my office light effect. It's actually a really nice sort of crimson red.
It's a little too dark out to get a good "natural light" photo right now, but this should give you a closer idea:
It's fairly humid out, so I think I'm going to let it dry a bit more before laying in the shadows and the "scale" pattern, but... it's getting there!
w00t!
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A little bit more painting today: - the shadows on the tunic as well as the "scale" pattern, and all the rest of the torso details (turtleneck, belt, and cuffs):
Just need to do the hands and the epaulettes and we'll be in business (not this weekend, though... probably in a few days).
Thanks for the nudge, Dev... I'm so glad I'm getting this finished.
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Of course, now my daughter wants Deddy or Lee to draw her so you can do a figure of her too.
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A pox on whoever designed the silver-age "finned" epaulette.
This is bar none the most difficult thing I've tried to do yet across both of these figures. I have literally been trying to shape this thing correctly for like two and half hours now.
It's rounded around the arm... but it's edged on its own center line.
It's a consistent width for like 80% of it's circumference... but it thins out to next to nothing for the other 20.
Lucky for this type of thing, though, what I lack in skill, I more than make up for in obsession.
I will get this... oh yes... I will get this.
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