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2009, TIME FOR A NEW BUILD

Started by HOG, January 04, 2009, 02:44:12 PM

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ChernayaAkula

#60
January 15, 2009, 03:14:44 PM
Excellent! :bow: The hands look awesome (well, so do the legs and arms...). The idea of giving it a limp is just brilliant! :bow:
Cheers,
Moritz

Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

Amen

#61
January 15, 2009, 04:27:40 PM
Wonderful job my friend!
I cant wait to see more of it!

:cheers: :cheers:

Criticism accepted.

GTX

#62
January 16, 2009, 11:22:57 AM
Quote from: noxioux on January 14, 2009, 08:40:01 PM
This thing just keeps getting better and better :thumbsup: 

Ditto! :thumbsup:

Regards,

Greg
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

sotoolslinger

#63
January 16, 2009, 02:08:17 PM
Quote from: GTX on January 16, 2009, 11:22:57 AM
Quote from: noxioux on January 14, 2009, 08:40:01 PM
This thing just keeps getting better and better :thumbsup: 

Ditto! :thumbsup:

Regards,

Greg
Same here ......Awesome
I amuse me.
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Sisko

#64
January 16, 2009, 03:53:45 PM


Fantastic stuff!!!!!!!!!! :bow: :bow:
Get this Cheese to sick bay!

Eddie M.

#65
January 16, 2009, 04:21:36 PM
I'm really enjoying this build. You have a very fruitful imagination. ;D
Look behind you!

HOG

#66
January 16, 2009, 06:10:07 PM Last Edit: January 16, 2009, 06:20:21 PM by HOG
hOYHOY`AL

Thanks for all your kind words, I`m chuffed.  :wub:

An aside- My wife stuck her head into the HogCupboard today,while I was making a coffee, just to have a peek at what I`ve been doing. She gave a snort of laughter and said "What is it? a self portrait?". Suddenly I realised what she meant. There it was, a figure whose belly stuck out much further than it should way way in front of the head (pilots), oversized shoes, shufflin` along on a stick, wearing a coat of many colours just like my favourite lucky painting shirt. So that's where the inspiration comes from. Is my subconscious that weird?. Obviously me and future robot designers think alike. Why keep on growing up where the (h)air gets thin when you can grow out instead!  ;D
Anyway onwards (and outwards)
Masked of some and gave it a blow over in dark green, took of the tape and I wasn`t impressed. In fact it looked crap!!!.What was I thinking of.




Thats when I went for the coffee.And another coffee and a think. I thought perhaps if I paint on some smaller squares it might get that digital look. So 2 hours later, totally missed off with painting loads of tiny rectangles in tan with a 00000 brush I had had enough. Another coffee and a smoke (given up on the peanuts), I remembered I had some scraps of decal in Luftwaffy colours left over from canopy framing sessions. Dug those out and chopped into small bits. Much quicker, not digital but a definite improvement. Certainly breaks up the outline.







Now looking a bit like pixalated German camo`, (see Matrixone`s VW) Or maybe something WW1`ish. Anyway have sprayed some more decal sheet and will continue tommorrow. I`m thinking of doing the `good` leg in a different pattern like a replacement part or something.

All Crits & Comms welcome
Cheers  :drink:
G

Ps  Obviously my lucky paint(ed)ing shirts magic is fadeing
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

philp

#67
January 16, 2009, 06:49:51 PM
Loving the camo.

While I always like the replacement part look, I think it would be a little overkill to say that they replaced one leg and now have taken damage to the other one.  Unless you want to highlight how prone to damage the legs are on this type of mech.

Now, a replacement arm...
Phil Peterson

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lancer

#68
January 17, 2009, 01:58:00 PM
Outstanding!! Absolutely brilliant work Hogg
If you love, love without reservation; If you fight, fight without fear - THAT is the way of the warrior

If you go into battle knowing you will die, then you will live. If you go into battle hoping to live, then you will die

Taiidantomcat

#69
January 17, 2009, 02:59:09 PM
gorgeous paint  :o
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gaultier

"My model is right! It's the real world that's wrong!" -global warming scientist

An armor guy, who builds airplanes almost exclusively, that he converts to space fighters-- all while admiring ship models.

sotoolslinger

#70
January 17, 2009, 08:29:11 PM
Yeah I know all about art for it own sake and stuff but this is really superb :blink: :thumbsup: :unsure: Quit yer bichin ;D :lol: :rolleyes: I realize how silly that sounds ,as you cannot tell the artist what to create......it's really neato :party:
I amuse me.
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BlackOps

#71
January 18, 2009, 09:06:38 AM
Hog, once you get some unit markings on, and some extreme weathering, I think you'll be happy with your paint job. It usually helps to pull it all together. Personally I think it's lookin' pretty danged good.  :thumbsup:
Jeff G.
Stumbling through life.

HOG

#72
January 21, 2009, 05:05:48 PM Last Edit: January 21, 2009, 05:13:46 PM by HOG
Hoyhoy`Al

If I had read the above, (thanks people for the kudos) I might not have gne down the road I have and redun the camo`.
Trouble was, I thought, that with all the odd bitz of decals I had used it was becoming a Joseph. A mech of many colours. I had already sprayed up some decal film as in my last post, so after a quick rub over with 600 wet n dry, I sprayed the model in an overall coat of RLM 02 and added the decals. (RLM`s 79-81-82)









This I think looks better and more of a digital feel. Before I decal`d I gave it a blowover in gloss hence the shiny bits. I want to try out an idea of markings etc. Mind you I`m sick of decaling, I counted over 150 bitz of the tan alone before I gave up counting.
Oh well  onwards and outwards,
Com`s & Crit`s welcomed,
Cheers  :drink:
G

ps Ed.S hey you were right, there was an F16 in there somewhere ;D
H-O-G = Head Out of Gestalt-hands on autopilot
WORK! The curse of the drinking class.
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson )

Weaver

#73
January 22, 2009, 04:48:13 AM
Quote from: HOG on January 13, 2009, 02:43:16 PM
Weaver -What is `Mapad Stationary` ?  :unsure:

Sorry - didn't realise I'd forgotten to reply to this... :rolleyes:

Mapad is a company that makes erasers, pencil sharpeners etc., all in funky mech-bit-lookin' plastic covers. Right up your street. For example:



There are other too. Sainsbury's have some, Hobbycraft have others, and I presume that stationery stores have yet more, but they all seem to stock different ones, strangely enough. :huh:



This build is excellent, HOG. There are endless Mechs around so putting some character and story into one is a very good thing. :thumbsup:




"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Brian da Basher

#74
January 23, 2009, 02:12:05 AM
Your mech-walker is simply outstanding HOG! It's got a real "Aliens meets the Teletubbies" feel to it and the paintwork brings it all together!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Brian da Basher
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