Have I got some progress to show to you...
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Vegie tales.. vegie tales.. vegie tales, vegie tales... There's never never never never never a show..."
Ok, that's not what I wanted to show you.
Back On Topic! had a nice 4 day weekend and sadly its almost over
, but I was able to get a bit done. Posting this with the data of my phone (cause my internet is down), I had finished adding all the detail to the whole suit, the main hoo-rah being the chest piece.
Now opening the doors to sealing and I thought I had a process for that: kwik seal the holes, mod podge a layer, wet sand that down, then spray on the plasti-dip and vwa-la be ready to paint. So that process I tried on the hand armor bits, the shoulder piece, and the helmet to find that it sucked... I hadn't kwik sealed enough so there was still a lot you could see and the plasti-dip spray is not what I thought. I had heated it up all nice and shaked it really well to get a spray that was big drops of dip, it was not some nice even coating that I had imagined
. So I thought hey, maybe it needs a few coats to even out, three+ coats in on the pieces and they were still all bumpy. And then to top it all off my can half way through decided to oose out spray around the cap slowly but constantly. I could of just had a bad can, I have two more, but it was so bad so I probably wont use them. I was happily able to resurrect the helmet by wet sanding and sealing some more followed by a layer of mod and then wet sanding again. The end result I quite like and can't wait to have done.
After that whole mess, I got a process that seems to work nicely: Mod podge, kwik seal, mod podge, wetsand. So far the forearms, boots, butt plate, front of cod, a thigh, and a shin have been done this way and all they need is a wetsanding then off to painting.
My paint idea, undersuit, weathering, all that lovely stuff is coming from the HALO Reach Deliver Hope Kat suit used in the trailer.
I haven't colored the chest and commando shoulder to what they will look like cause that would take a long time, so I just did a slight coloring.
This suit looks the most realistic out of any Spartan suit I have seen, even any other halo trailers. Right now I had experimented on the butt plate part of the warn look which is the chipped off paint. I like it a lot, all I need to do is less big splotches and more small cuts and splotches (like in the deliver hope kat suit). My choice to cover up the metal to have the green on is toothpaste. This is because even though its a bit tricky to play with cause it likes to stick to itself, it wont block painting like vaseline or cause a yellow stain like mustand. Plus it leaves a minty paint smell which you think would be good but nope.
Last hoo-rah was getting the amazballs M-73 from
mblackwell1002. It was great to be able to meet up and we talked about our builds and he brought a really cool titan helmet
. Once I got home I put all the pieces together and awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, she be nice and quite big. And I am still a teen so saying that this rifle is "dope" over and over when I don't say "dope" really ever is quite ok.
And I don't know why but my favorite group of parts are these and this angle
.
Anyways, that's all so far and I'm hoping to have some more pieces painted for the next post soon.
