MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

[Maschinen Krueger]

HASE - Heavily Armored Snake Eye.
Space suit for Lunar and Orbital combat

The armored suit kit and figure are limited run garage kits sold at the Japanese WonderFestival. The hanger base is scratch built around a PVC pipe fitting. The gantry is styrene strip with over 120 individual rivets. Yes, I'm a sci-fi rivet counter. I won't bore you with the WIP. Let's just say the suit was a breeze, the gantry was tedious, the base was fun and the figure... shudder... I'd rather not talk about it.

I know a space suit and hanger would never get this dirty, but NASA clean looks like something in a museum. The suit is hand painted with Vallejo Model Color for a rough artistic look where I expressed the brush marks. Mind you, there are no brush strokes in the paint, it was thinned properly, I chose to use layers of translucent paint to achieve some variety in the surface finish and give it some depth rather than a solid green and white camo job. The paint chips are a combination of those jabbed on with a torn sponge or those applied with a 3/0 brush. The model was then weathered with oil washes, MIG Filters and Washes and some areas were topped off with straight oil paint worked in with thinner as localized filters to brighten or darken for highlights or shadows.

The pilot bust and mechanic are hand painted with Vallejo Model Color.

Overall Views

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

Another
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Close Ups

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

A
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And some Artsy Shots

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

MaK/SF3D HASE - Complete

I'm not sure how well the up-lighting shots worked out. I had a real fancy set up - an LED flashlight in an old salsa jar held in place with some foam. The base was sat on top and held with masking tape. The first shot was underexposed while the second was a 6 second exposure in a dark room. The red eye is a photoshop touch. Normally you're trying to get rid of those things.

[MZ3]

Did this win at Coplar on saturday?

[Maschinen Krueger]

Did this win at Coplar on saturday?

2nd. Was that your Briegel? Efin awsum!

[MZ3]

It was 

To be honest, I didn't think I would win anything after I saw all the stuff there, especially your stuff. But, Cuddles got 3rd.

[Lin.K]

I know a space suit and hanger would never get this dirty

No you don't!  We've just had many people telling us it probably wouldn't. These aren't golf playing monkeys in go-carts collecting stool samples but fighting suits in high traffic hangars of death and destruction. Lots of carbon scoring, these boys are seeing some action.

So I love this suit and set up, great stuff.

Kill Blue more Yella!

Lin.K

[chaos_theory]

This is a nice vignette. Love the subject (just found my favorite Ma.K suit). The story, the base and figure plus always near perfect weathering make this a great model. Congrats on 2nd place. It was well deserved.

[Ezechiel]

I know I say that every time... but  I love it. The suit is a great design and the pose makes it look pretty badass and more menacing than the usual SAFS I think.
The lighting system is what make the vignette awesome though. The picture where the light passes through the grid to make round halos on the legs is just way cool.

Was the hand part of the resin kit? I can't really tell if it's a modified 1/144 Zeon hand or something else.

[Maschinen Krueger]

Thanks guys.

Linlkjl - Less yellow, more... more everything! You are correct. If this guy rolled around in the lunar dust, he'd be pretty filthy.

Chaos_Fact - Thanks a plenty

EZ - Many thanks. Someone said the pose made it look like he was taking a poo! The hand came with the kit, but I'm pretty sure you are correct about the original origin of a BClub hand.

[zerobxu]

BK - Great piece! I really like the color scheme on the HASE and the colors of the crewman, but the gantry is what sets this piece apart for me. Everything looks great together.

And congrats on the 2nd place win!

[Maschinen Krueger]

BK - Great piece! I really like the color scheme on the HASE and the colors of the crewman, but the gantry is what sets this piece apart for me. Everything looks great together.

And congrats on the 2nd place win!

Thanks Zero.

[John Reid]

Great work... I love how the suit is dinged up, but the tech is clean... nice, subtle difference in operating environments. And the lighting takes it over the edge. Epic.

[Maschinen Krueger]

John,

Thanks, but you are hitting upon things I never considered. Clean mechanic, it's a contrast against the suit sure, but have you seen a clean mechanic? I guess that makes it even more sci-fi.

It wasn't intentional but the effect is nice. Basically I painted the figure wrapped up the dio for a comp and then said enough is enough, need to move on to something else.

[ZLuca]

FANTASTIC job Bryan!
You always kick ass..
beautiful and original work!!
Luca

[Well]

I like the paint ! Attractive work!
 

Nice