In Progress » Desert Use Scopedog

11.16.08 » Source, Concepts & Initial Scratchbuilding I’ve had this kit sitting on my shelf for over a year now and was putting it off for no particular reason. I love the design, but needed some inspiration to get to it. I found the inspiration on 2chan in the form…

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Rusty Texture

I was playing around with the salt and rust techniques and thanks to the inspiration from those modelers whose threads I’ll link below, I came up with the following for making an interesting rust texture. 1: Spray the part to be rusty with several shades of rust-colored paint mixes. I…

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Painting the Zeon Cyclops Jeep

Every once in a while I decide to take a lot of step-by-step photos and make a tutorial out of them. I figured that this small jeep kit from the Gundam UC Hard Graph line would be a great piece to test out some techniques and write about the armor…

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In Progress » Patrol in the Debris Field

01.06.08 » Source, Concepts & Initial Scratchbuilding The Dunehopper was starting to burn me out and Christmas business left me with a few weeks without modeling. Instead of going back to the DH, while almost done but close to burning me out, I decided to start on something new and…

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