Oh well, I guess it couldn’t get much worse alread…
Oh well, I guess it couldn’t get much worse already, yesterday it got
much better as i stumbled upon drybrushing. Basically dipping brush in
paint, dabbing it on tissue until there’s very little then lightly
making passes over the parts. Usually dark colours have their details
accented by having silver paint on the edges and detais sticking out.
Just like how panel lines are drawn in to make the illusion of shadows,
this one gives the illusion of the light reflecting on the exposed
surfaces. and edges. Check out the a-little-bit-bigger picture for
comparison. before and after dry brushing the Mr colour chrome on to
the part, not too bad right? I thought it would be difficult but its
pretty easy really, next thing i’ll have to do for the model is to:
1) Finish dry brushing all the visible internals
2) Shade the edges and recesses of the white armour plates
3) Stick those disgusting bandai stickers onto the model.
Stickers are like a cheap substitute for waterslide decals and halfway
in between are those rub on dry transfers. Water slide decals are SUPER
thin and don’t stick out on the surface. whereas the stupid stickers
are so thick and start to trap dust at the edges of the stickers. They
can’t be coated over and they are easy to spoil. Too bad, there arn’t
any waterslide decals for this model in SG, have to order from HK but
nvm lah, not that important.
Drybrushed… Underneath you can see the “programming methology in C” for my programming module
How
i dried all the parts on a rainy day. Put them in a box and blow hot
air inside. Paint dries and cures in half and hour to an hour.
I’m getting quite motivated since its finishing already.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…….. wanna faster finish it. Take so super
long to do, not my cup of tea.