Hobby exploits 2020 and onward

This is Bones IV core set barbarian painted with oil paints, more details here: https://www.ontabletop.com/project/1504153/#snav

With the advent of White Banner Army to Yu Jing in April, we were given a new light tag called Blue Wolf. Its usefulness on the gamming table is rather suspicious as with most tags, but nevertheless big stompy robots are always cool to look at.

In that situation I felt obliged to somehow build/kitbash it (since CB haven’t even published its dossier). As you may say from my recent updates here I’m crazy on digital kitbashing lately. I used that technique to create my version of Blue Wolf and this way make CB publish official model sooner.

Couple of entries earlier I showed one gundam model kitbashed to act as the tag in question. I even painted it, but after painting it looked even more ridiculous than before – like a clown of gundams with huge feet, way too large trousers and a tiny head.

Luckily I found better model to work with.

I haven’t taken many pictures during painting, but I’ll show what I have.

And the final result:

I tried to employ a new technic with those two. I blacklined them before putting base colour on. It didn’t work too well. They look much sloppier than others painted traditionally.

They say that to get better in anything you need to practice, I guess practice is only good if it is deliberate. This time I practiced human skin tones, mostly airbrush, brush was used only to glaze some shadows)

Another kitbash, this time gundam robot turned into new YJ tag for Infinity

I made a tutorial on how I made this one (this is what I call digital kitbash) but the website decided to play hard on me an deleted all my content, I’m not going to repeat it.

Bellow are pictures of digital original, digitaly kitbashed design and painted physical mini.

Some time ago I bought amazing model from MyMiniFactory. It was 1/10^th scale woman and a bike covered with bones. Overall extremely wasteland/post apocalypse feel. I bougt it to support the sculptor mainly and didn’t think I’d ever print it. But having all that free time which I spent mostly on the computer I started playing with MS 3d builder. This is very simple programme which gives you just a handful of tools to play with your .stls.

It proved to be really useful for me. I managed to merge parts of the bike and the main character into just two printable files and even changed weapons on the chick to make her look as Kum Rider from Infinity Haqqislam. Of course I had to scale down the model significantly (22% of the original to be exact) which made some details become hard to read, nevertheless I find final result very promising. I just primed her and really want to paint as soon as possible.

I painted Zuyong with missile launcher. This is exclusively paintbrush job, well I did zenithal undercoat with black and white primer and painted the base with an airbrush). But anyway I wanted to see difference between very deliberate paintbrush work and average airbrushing which I usually apply. Bellow you can see two Zuyongs:

1. Paintbrush, ca.10-12 hours:

2. Airbrush, 2-3 hours (painted back in October 2016).

I don’t know what is your opinion, but I guess putting one more hour into tidying up the airbrush work would give the very same results as paintbrush in less than half the time…