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dsteingass

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  1. Inspired by the Games Workshop Imperial Guard Sentinel, I wanted to build something a mad Tycoon might have built in an alternative post-Civil war history. The 19th century equivalent of private armies of today, like Blackwater Security (or whatever they are now)

     

    ..It all started when I bought a couple of small bags of watch parts from ebay

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    I still need to add highlights and give it all a general paint cleanup and weathering down yet.

  2. With acrylics, it all depends on the container and your sealing habits. I have some citadel acrylics from the 90s that are still perfect, (in pots like modern P3 acrylics) then I have some Citadel acrylics from a year ago that are dried out (in their stupid new pots). - Think it's either marketing genius or buyer stupidity, not sure ;)

  3. The kit wasn't difficult to build, they used the .cgi files from the movie to design it digitally, so all the alignment pins fit together perfectly, filling and sanding the seams was the difficult part. With all those panel lines, it was really hard not to get putty where it didn't belong, and even more difficult not to sand something that belonged.

  4. Man, I really like how you do your edge highlights. Do you start with a solid edge highlight, then later break it up in random places with basecoat color?

     

    My edge highlights end up always looking garish, or somewhat reflective in spots, like this:

     

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    Especially because from your awesome pics, I think we are using the same highlight color (panzer buff interior?), although my camo stripes are a shade of mustard darker than your paint.

  5. Here I have tried your advice, not on a panel line, but as the shading between the deck and side panels.

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    Here we can plainly see my aim and arm movement needs work, And I probably should have used an ink or wash rather than the same black acrylic that I used to touch up the ironwork eh?

    Ooops, oh well, live and learn huh?- I am still having fun btw.

     

    ps. And in my defense, it is DIFFICULT to airbrush in your right hand whilst shooting a pic in digital macro with your left hand, hoping the focus is on the right thing ;)

  6. OK, so the black shade in the panel line survives after the semi-transparent basecoat? And then the lightened base coat for the panel interiors allows the darker shade near the outside of the panels? I always wondered how you guys did that! Thank you! I am also scribing a lot of recessed panel lines and rivets on my plasticard Necromunda terrain buildings. However, i have realized that my scribing tool leaves a pile on either side of the scribe. When I drybrush highlights over it, I get a ghastly highlight line on either side of the scribe. You can see that on my first photo.

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