On The Drawing Board, But... Your Cancelled Project Thread

[real9thdoctor]

Nice job on the Christopher Lee Frankenstein!!

As far as skin tones go, I have had trouble with those as well; these two painting resources helped me tremendously. One is a post at OSW forums, while the other is a multi-part youtube series for painting 1/6 heads. Both are good for other applications as well: I also threw in a third for Tony Stark/ Iron Man:

One Sixth Warriors Head Repaint Tutorial-

Tutorial:Repainting a head sculpt

Ok since most of you were so eager for a tutorial, I decided to try and make one while painting Horst Lerner tonight . So here it is if you guys can give suggestions or ask questions about it fell free to do so. For the Horst Lerner figure. First off your materials. You're going to need the...

www.onesixthwarriors.com

Captain Kirk 1/6 Head Paint Tutorial (entire series on Youtube)-

Tony Stark 1/6 Head Repaint Tutorial (Youtube)-

Very cool! Will check em out.

And thanks! Really happt with how it turned out.

 

[pengbuzz]

I wouldn't call this ABANDONED per se, as I have a 2nd TOS Enterprise 350 kit for this, but its more that I keep putting this project off due to fear of screwing it up. But anyhow, the idea is to take that kit and convert it into a ship I made in 3d for a fancomic I wanted to make. The USS CONDOR. View attachment 1819340View attachment 1819341View attachment 1819342View attachment 1819343View attachment 1819344

The physical mods are daunting enough, but I will have to either mod the PL light kit or more likely get something put together from a lighting kit. And its been a LONG time since I last did any wiring for lights so I am worried about screwing that up too.

WOW!! Didn't realize you also did Star Trek models (just comprehended that now)!

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I started doing some research on painting figures in early 2000s and never got around to it. One problem I have with painting is that my brain likes things very structured so if it's a "just mix stuff until it looks right" I have trouble. I like steps; I can follow steps great. I remember reading an article in Modeler's Resource where the guy didn't prime the figure, his first coat was just drying brushing the plastic. I was like "WTH? That's not how you paint!"

 

[real9thdoctor]

I started doing some research on painting figures in early 2000s and never got around to it. One problem I have with painting is that my brain likes things very structured so if it's a "just mix stuff until it looks right" I have trouble. I like steps; I can follow steps great. I remember reading an article in Modeler's Resource where the guy didn't prime the figure, his first coat was just drying brushing the plastic. I was like "WTH? That's not how you paint!"

You'd hate watching me and my GF painting then. I do prime, but she doesn't, and we both almost always wing it when mixing colors, especially on figures.

I also break the rules regarding shading. I paint figures with a shading wash, then tons of drybrushing to build highlights.

I wanna learn how to do preshading. That is something I can't quite wrap my head around though lol.

 

[Millenniumf]

Soooooooo many projects, many of which I need to get back to, but some of which would be more trouble than they're worth to finish up.

One that I am thinking of returning to is a 1:350 scale Romulan Bird of Prey vacuform kit that I was adding operating landing gear to. I got the mechanism working, but then the solder joints started breaking. I need to re-think how I built the mechanical parts before returning to that one again.

Another was a Klingon Bird of Prey that I was adding moving wings and super-detailing the exterior. But the mechanism I could never get right, and being a much younger modeler at the time I made a lot of mistakes which I need to rip out in order to make them again, better.

 

[drusselmeyer]

Maybe I should have suggested an abandoned project exchange! LoL