• OSL with hard lighting. I’ve got some idea of what I want to do with a bust I got from Shapeways a while ago and have tried to use the cues from comic books in order to visualize underlighting.

• The thing that I’ve thought was daunting but found easy so far has been NMM. Its just finding the right combo of paints. Taking painting classes, for a degree I will not complete, and learning with oils made it interesting to bring the knowledge over.

• Kitbashing!!! Oh, its just take this part and add it over there, right? Wrong! Oh so many times over that isn’t the case. When you sit to resculpt the hands of a Werner Klocke mini and find, through much irritation, that the bastard works about in the arena of 28 ga. wire for his hands. I’ve done three separate rebuilds of the Reaper figure Brigitte (50084) [NSFW] where I’ve resculpted hands carrying different firearms (while packing her feather duster in the other). Choice expletives for making such small details but I do love them. Modification of limbs with different accessories is always a challenge when you first need to develop an appreciation of space, weight and the elements in motion. Trial and error is your only means of learning.

This also has been the same issue with doing small random details for basing. I found sculpted sprues of skeletons from Secret Weapon and have had to do hands (reasonable for scale, won’t complain) and feet bones. Scarabs for Egyptian themed bases weren’t too bad. Building jungle/swamp bases and adding deadfall as well as vines and snakes has been a bit of a chore. Its all getting easier for the 3D sculptors while the at home hobbyist building by hand continue to toil.

Pledge: finish my commission pieces and get back to the OTT figures… there’s a future package in the works.

@sundancer Nothing to worry about for now. I’ll be moving out of the hotel and the light problem will be solved. I already have a portable Ott desk lamp that does a good job.

@blinky465 for your OSL on your cyberpunk computer operators just paint your guys like normal, seal and then do the lightest of white ink blasts with an airbrush from the direction of the terminals and then wash with your monitor color. You could just do a few passes with a light glaze over the faces with the monitor color if you don’t trust your trigger finger for airbrushing.
By the by is that a space flight stewardess figure you’ve gone and painted?

Now this tube thing… I’m thinking Fallout might have some clues to what the future holds…. Uranium Fever!!!!

@m30wm1x Weathering and damage can be quite fun. I recommend looking into Damaged magazine as a good source of regular info on what people do in order to make things look used. A simple gloss varnish before putting on chip medium and a layer of paint sets you up for rust in no time.

Beautiful rust

Done with economical materials

Great info and watching makes me feel dumb