Polar Bear WIP 5

Polar Bear WIP 5
I added 2 kill marks (red PKA H0 kill marks) on one side of the backpack. I demonstrated how to apply decal to my disciple Ashley Chin (my inquisitive kid) and my father in law who is staying with us over the weekend.

I started applying the blue stripes using a mixture of RLM65 No 115 light blue, No 64 sky blue and No 1 white on the forearms, helmet, and feet. I took care to just add thin coats of the mixture and left some parts unpainted to simulate chips.

Ashley is very interested and painting robot and almost did not want to sleep when my in laws asked her to sleep with them! :)

Seeing the J markings and the Polar Bear logo being too dark, I decided to jump in and paint the decals. I was afraid that the thinner would dissolve the decal because I had a disaster using Tamiya enamel thinner on top of unprotected decals. Unlike the enamel thinner, the Gunze thinner did not dissolve/melt the decal, but it was very tough trying to paint within the decals. The end result was not fantastic. Oh well, try again next time.

Now to find my tools and wires to do some modding...

Polar Bear WIP 4

Polar Bear WIP 4

As suggested by Lin.K, I placed the arms and parts together and realized that they are too dark when compared with the suit. So I went to whiten the areas even more, with lacquer paint. I hesitated using acrylics as I don't handbrush well with them, and will try to 'highlight' a bit later with enamels after a coat of protective layer. Here's how it looks with the second layer of white.
As you can see, some of the contrasting strokes are covered up. Can't say its better or worse than before.I scrubbed the feet a bit to reveal the bottom coat and to have some variation in the paint job.

Decided that its gloss enough and before I add the blue stripes, I applied the decals so that I have a sense of how large the blue stripes should I paint later, and also I will attempt to use the blue to repaint over some of the decals. First time doing this so I am a bit fearful.Here's how it looks like after adding decals. I used the 'J' option, as I wanted to make the fellow in the Ma.K BD as well as in the Ma.K Profile #1 - Falke book. Don't know his name, but I like him, and so I used the decals as instructed by the instruction booklet religiously. Not too much decals eh?

I applied Mark Setter on the place where I am going to put the decal, slide it off and position it with a cotton bud. Once dried, I applied Mark Softener on it. After that has dried, I repeat the process with Mark Softener again.
I am still thinking of whether to use some of kill marking decals...
That's it for tonight, hopefully tomorrow I can do the blue stripes, and add wires to the kit.
Night guys! (or is it morning -_-''')

Polar Bear WIP 3

Polar Bear WIP 3

Did the white wash tonight in front of my TV watching a documentary about art... Heehee makes me feel so artistic (ya right...)
I was thinking about Lin.K's fantastic Polar Bear, but of course I wouldn't reach any of his standard. Hope you don't mind Lin.K, you are my Ma.K hero!

Just took out my old chinese tiny paintbrush and went all over with Gunze white with a little yellow. I varied the strokes, like for the bottom backpack, I used up and down strokes,
and for the feet, I jabbed around a bit to try to get some mud effect for later.
I went and added more white highlights on top surfaces while the lower legs and bottom facing surfaces got alot more thinner, and less white.

front

left side

right sideback - eh side :)

The arms are sort of painted with artificial shading, more white for top facing, and less white bottom facing.

right arm

left arm

helmet

Constructive criticism requested! Should I put on more white? anything I missed? Like? Don't like? Please help me improve!

Incidentally I bought this ikea storage which doubles as a working table, so that I can wheel all my modeling stuff to the living room, watch/listen to TV while I work on my kit.
Then wheel the entire setup to my study to take photos, and finally wheel it back to my robot room. It costs 50+sgd, less than a Kauz!

Gift from maxwinamp

Gift from maxwinamp

My friend maxwinamp gave me the Falke figure sprues and box because he knew I was such a crazy Ma.K fan! Thank you very much max!!!

Guys, don't misunderstand me, people don't become my friends by giving me things, and I don't write about people because they give me things... But really, I find that people who do Ma.K are more generous with stuff. Can't explain why... :)

Lots more nice people and heros to write about ...
Will

Shipment 14 is coming!!!

Heehee, shipment 13 has just sold out and number 14 is on the way...
This time its a large shipment with SAFS variants, PKS variant, flying things, and a couple of rare stuff too! I'll keep it a secret first. This time its mostly unclaimed kits, and I wanna let everyone in on the action, so after I received the kits and finalized the prices for the unclaimed kits, I will post the date and time when I will post the sales thread. The PMs that reach me first gets the kits.

Fair?

Stay tuned...

Polar Bead WIP 2

Deadline missed for WOOB4... Its ok...
Restarted work on the Polar Bear...
I added some more black and dark brown to some spots which I think should be darker and patched some parts...





I don't have dark green, so I used Gunze Gundam Color Gray 24 and started dancing my brush around.
Two layers of gray, with the second layer of gray with lots of thinner somehow looks lighter in color.




Man, the fumes are terrible... I'd better do it near the window next time.
Next up, white ...

maxwinamp

He probably needs no introduction to many modelers both local and international. He is a very fast modeler and also the administrator of the PLAMO forum. In the world of Ma.K, he is also currently the one with the most finished Ma.K models I know. There is a small section in PLAMO dedicated to Ma.K too here, so guys check it out!

Here are his finished Ma.K stuff:
SAFS Firestarter
Marine Gustav
Lunar Pawn Metal Chief
Heinrich 'Going Home'
Fantastic builder, his works speak for themselves.
He is currently building the Falke too!! :)
I met up with him a couple of times to deal with kits, as well as on model meets organised by him. Nice guy with less words than me (I talk a lot). I am glad to know him as a friend. Generous man too! He is very willing to share his knowledge with me every time we meet.
Thanks man max, glad to know you...


Will