Roktman Posted February 16, 2019 Report Posted February 16, 2019 This is an approx 1/3rd scale kit I obtained from Mark Warthling. It comes in 9 parts - the head/body, the stone arm, 2 sets of horns (long and short - I chose the short), a base and two name plates. The arm, base and one of the name plates are in translucent resin in case you want to light the kit. Once again it was a case of me jumping into things before taking the start image, but you'll see the clear resin along the way. I started with a tan primer, glued the horns in and then painted the face red. Reddened the face, and painted the hair black - When it came to the arm, I looked around and it was no where to be found. I contacted Mark, and for a little fee he was able to get me another. How can something that big go missing? I have no idea... Here you can see the translucent hand. Anyway, in the background you may be able to see I added a darker brown shadow to parts of the jacket. What I did to highlight the black hair was to use a little blue in it. All shirt references showed it was black, so I mixed a little blue into that to compliment the hair. You can also see the translucent base and the arm with primer. I also painted the zipper steel, and the little emblem on the pull the new Molotow Chrome. That stuff is amazing. Next was tackling the Dark brown leather collar and straps. You can see in the background the arm got it's coat of red - While I thought of it, I painted in the eyes. Hellboy had yellow sclera, with a light brown iris, and then the black pupil. With the squint the model has I just left of the sclera color... I fixed up the coloring on his head and now I'm happy with it. Hellboy is now complete. I didn't mention the base, but being translucent it calls out to be lit. Never having done lighting, I left it open for lights down the road. What I did tho, was dremel out more material in the symbols, and then seeing a miniatures trick I got some matte Mod Podge and mixed it with black craft paint until it was *dark*, then I painted thickly on (avoiding the symbols) the base. Does well with light blocking. It was crazy how many images I went thru before I found an definite image of the emblem on his sleeve. Only found one. Thanks for looking. 1
dmorrissette Posted February 18, 2019 Report Posted February 18, 2019 Sweet. They make a great Abe Sapien too. Dave
Roktman Posted February 20, 2019 Author Report Posted February 20, 2019 Thanks guys. Dave: yes I have Abe. The one I passed on was the Nazi robot guy 😉
dmorrissette Posted February 20, 2019 Report Posted February 20, 2019 Yup- Kroenen. All three are excellent. Love the way the red isn't "too" red Dave
Roktman Posted February 21, 2019 Author Report Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) On 2/20/2019 at 7:39 AM, dmorrissette said: Yup- Kroenen. All three are excellent. Love the way the red isn't "too" red Dave Hehe, that's him. I should have remembered having just watched it again the other nite. Thanks re: the red. A while back I bought a red set that Vallejo did for Nocturna Models. Six bottles going from a red purple thru an almost orange. Makes it easy to pick your triad - Edited February 21, 2019 by Roktman
dmorrissette Posted February 22, 2019 Report Posted February 22, 2019 LOL...great..I need to buy more paint Dave 1
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