Spaceagent-9 2017 build pic threads

[micahrogers]

I never thought of dry brushing water colors! Good idea.

I figured that watercolors would bleed more than markers but dry brushing makes sense, regarding how to avoid that. I had thought acrylics would be required.

Pastels work but can flake a lot and become messy.


good idea!

I use my acrylic hobby paints when I'm at home, and am using just cheap craft acrylics here, $.50 a bottle at WalMart.

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

I never thought of dry brushing water colors! Good idea.

I figured that watercolors would bleed more than markers but dry brushing makes sense, regarding how to avoid that. I had thought acrylics would be required.

Pastels work but can flake a lot and become messy.


good idea!

This is a technique that I had learned when I was in Eastern Europe. A friend taught me how it do it. If done properly (yes, just like everything else, it does take a bit of practice), you will get great results (especially if you are able to mix your colours properly).

 

[THE DC]

This is a technique that I had learned when I was in Eastern Europe. A friend taught me how it do it. If done properly (yes, just like everything else, it does take a bit of practice), you will get great results (especially if you are able to mix your colours properly).

That would make a great teaching thread...


Just sayin'...


;-)

 

[spaceagent-9]

Another lego masterpiece i found online...

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

VERY NICE!!!

 

[micahrogers]

Love it, and now Lego is actually marketing kits toward adults... some of those look amazing.

 

[spaceagent-9]

Sorry about being offline this week, I upgraded to windows 11, and everything was changed and i had to re-update and then just got to sign in just now.
Here is my work today, this weekend should show the last Nacelle completed.

 

[spaceagent-9]

I just had a weird thought,... a lego imaged paper model of this latest Klingon D7 I posted lol!

 

[micahrogers]

Great work on the Grey Lady so far. Keep it up.

 

[THE DC]

Nice nacelle.

What did you use for the bussard dome?

 

[spaceagent-9]

Strange. I answered this a week ago. I used a gold plastic picnic plate and I heated it up with a hairdryer like Heatgun, then push molded a measuring spoon into it against some furniture foam ( that yellow thick foam inside cushions) trimmed it with tiny scissors and then used hot glue to mount it to the paper model part.

 

[spaceagent-9]

This is interesting
Meticulously Handcrafted Paper Objects by Zim & Zou | Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

Most interesting and impressive!!!
Thank you for sharing that with us!!!

 

[Revell-Fan]

COOL!

 

[micahrogers]

This is interesting
Meticulously Handcrafted Paper Objects by Zim & Zou | Colossal (thisiscolossal.com)

Nice. Thanks.

 

[spaceagent-9]

To me this is astounding. I think the Kbop is worthy of standing among the very best of our PM efforts. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

 

[micahrogers]

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

 

[spaceagent-9]

Well, I finished the other nacelle this morning and the darn thermal laser print cracked again even tho I heated it before bending. so I marker'd the breaks and glued them on anyway. Next is to run the wires thru the top of the secondary hull and then into and thru the locking mechanism so it doesn't sag on the struts. then some LEDs on the shuttle bay area and close off the secondary hull and begin the neck.

 

[micahrogers]

Great to hear you managed to save your print.

 

[THE DC]

Strange. I answered this a week ago. I used a gold plastic picnic plate and I heated it up with a hairdryer like Heatgun, then push molded a measuring spoon into it against some furniture foam ( that yellow thick foam inside cushions) trimmed it with tiny scissors and then used hot glue to mount it to the paper model part.

That's interesting technique!


Please consider a series of thread entries demonstrating the process. It sounds very sharp and effective,. and it solves the challenges of curved paper shapes!