All airbrushed paints were done using PlamoColour's paint line. In summary, the Plamo paint line is very nice, and he provides a lot of paint, even in the 60mL size. The price might be the same as a large jar from another company, but the size of the bottle is about 3x larger than that. Even more value is in the 100mL bottle. The quality of the paints speak for themselves - the primer is GREAT for both resin and plastic, the paints are buttery smooth, and the matte spray leaves a VERY nice finish, and goes a long way to boot (covering this whole kit with a matte coat only took up ~40% of the bottle). My only recommendation - buy lots of paint in one order if shipping overseas, and pay attention to all of his thinning ratios!
All details were painted using a mixture of Testor's line of lacquers and enamels, Model Master's enamels, and Mr Super Metallics. I did an enamel wash using Model Master's gloss black, and as mentioned before the matte coat was provided by Plamo Colour. Decals are a mixture of the ones that came with the model and some samueldecal.com decals. Great stuff!
I added a 1/24 size astronaut (approximately), just for scale and coolness factors. If you look on the arm, you can see I put an AE decal there for further immersion :)
Onto the pics! Shot with a Nikon D80, 24-70mm f/2.8 and a 70-200mm f/2.8, spot lighting with a daylight-frequency bulb.
Closed vents:
Night shot:
A size comparison - note: the model on the left is on a stand.
C&C always welcome! I had a lot of fun building this bust! Thanks to all for the valuable feedback, and a HUGE thanks to Plamo colour for letting me try out the paints!
Lesson's learned: do NOT use liquid masking solution. Period.
Unrelated note: I have liquid masking solution for sale.
Love the night shot
ReplyDeleteabsolutely amazing
ReplyDeleteWow it looks amazing. Great job on the paint. I want to get one of those head bust resin models but I don't have any experience on resin. Did you pin the whole model or are some pieces glued? My problem I don't what tools are needed to cut the rods used to pin it. Hopefully one day I can be able to build a resin model. Also the detail is amazing as well. Keep up the great work.
ReplyDeleteDUDE!!!
ReplyDeleteI was so unaware you were still going strong on the gundams.
This is way cool dude, not a big fan of just the busts for models, but this one came out sweet :-D
Lol, I've never had my liquid masking solution work right. I gave up a long time ago.
ReplyDelete"HEY, USE THIS STUFF, IT COVERS AREAS THAT YOU CAN SCRATCH UP LATER TRYING TO GET THIS GOOP OFF! YAY!"