The Mighty Gray
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Darkside is a Monsterrr.. gaddamn this is SICK
Darkside is a Monsterrr.. gaddamn this is SICK
WOW! COOL!! Well done Darkside!
it looks really good! :thumbsup
mmfox
Respect dude! Skilled modeler and prop builder!
Amazing work as always! Will be checking it out in the junkyard.
That looks great! Interesting how you set up the LEDs like that. If that's still a work in progress then I'd love to see what the finished product would look like!
Good job!
wow that looks really cool !
Will you be adding the rest of the details to the outer ring ?
Also will you sell them ?
Hey Darkside or anyone for that matter, I just finished doing my first Zabana hand and that was really hard. When I finished it looked okay but the details are still there... more or less. I keep seeing all these pictures of people's cardstock parts and they look almost perfect. Everything seems to be lined up and everything. I have done a few parts but it doesn't seem to be getting better. My helmet is probably the best looking part I have done but the jaw still doesn't line up perfectly. I kept not being to worried about it thinking this can be fixed in one of the later steps, is that true? Should I be to worried about how my parts are looking? How do I get my pep to look that good? One of my biggest problems is things seeming to be to long or to short, like the repulsor ring on the hands, for example, it didn't connect, it was like 1/8 in short. I didn't cut it short, it's like I glued it wrong or something and it just came up short. What would be the cause of this?
There are certainly different ways of building the files so two really good pep artists can build the same file two different ways and one may come out with a better result than the other. It helps if you keep in mind that in the 3D world the 'paper' has no thickness at all. The cardstock you are building with does. So there are things you have to think about when you are putting the file together. Like when I built Zabana's hand file and I made the light pod, if I put the sides on around the ring then the pod is too thick and the sides don't match up. So You have to assemble the sides and then glue the ring on top. This makes it a little taller than the 3D model but that is acceptable. I am pretty good with shapes and 'predicting' how things will look if I put them together this way vs that way so I just think about it before I assemble it.
I have tried lots of different glues. Hot glue was one of the first and I hated it from the start. What a stringy mess and then it is too thick as well. I now use Aleens' Tacky Glue. To me it is perfect. Sometimes I will use superglue in a gel form if the application calls for it. There are some really small parts that need to have support behind them and the Aleene's glue would not work for that so in that case I use superglue.