Hunter Rose

I know, the cheeky swines!

Blimey time for a very small update! I was taken out of furlough last week and dropped right in the deep end with a ton of stressful rush jobs, so been too tired to model. But got a chance to get in the shed today and finish the rust pigments on the lower body. IMG_20200710_200318 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200710_200301 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200710_200247 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Next up I'll add some streaks with oil paint then I can seal the whole thing and get the rocket tubes glued in place. Thanks for looking, more soon

Looking good Pete! Nice to see some primer

Ooo nice legs!

Wow those parts together look cool, very nice painting

Great job! Looks very authentic, nice work

Thanks Brian! Just for the heck of it I'm seriously considering a small snow covered base, and then possibly adding some snow and Frost effects on him as well Cheers Pete! Yeah no one can say he hasn't put the hours in!

Cool, i really like the shading on the shield

Time for an update! I've been getting the lower body rust sorted out, so it was time to grab the salt and the hairspray again. IMG_20200621_124935 by Nick Frost, on Flickr I then gave it a blast with a dark black brown and then orange as before. IMG_20200627_111406 by Nick Frost, on Flickr After washing it off I was initially a bit dissapointed as I thought it didn't look like as much paint had come through the salt as the first time, but thankfully it was just because it was wet. Once it had dried it looked a lot better as you could see more of the colour. IMG_20200621_131422 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200622_092431 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200622_092504 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then when that was all dry I got out some bits of sponge and started to add some colour, I started with the waist section adding the same light and dark blues that I used on the top section. IMG_20200626_144041 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_145124 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_145134 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_145145 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then used the darker blue for the hip sections, again just trying to dab it around trying to keep it as natural and random as possible IMG_20200626_145713 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then for the upper leg section I used the warm grey I used on the same section on the arm IMG_20200626_151106 by Nick Frost, on Flickr For the legs I used the light blue and then coloured the small side panels in the darker blue IMG_20200626_152105 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_152124 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_152712 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Then used the same blues for the feet but used a much darker one for the lower section IMG_20200626_152345 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_152704 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_153432 by Nick Frost, on Flickr For the knee joint bit I decided not to use the salt for these pieces, you dont see much of them anyway so I instead used a sponge to add on the rust colours I'd used for the other bits to get a similar but different looking style of rust. IMG_20200626_153643 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_154239 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Once that was all dry I decided to get it all together IMG_20200626_193246 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_193258 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_193308 by Nick Frost, on Flickr IMG_20200626_194609 by Nick Frost, on Flickr Next up I'll get the rust pigments out for the lower body, and I'll start to add some rust streaks to the whole thing with some oil paint then the whole thing can be sealed with dullcote. Thanks for looking, more soon

Wow your lucky day!! Nice glad to see this underway again

Cracking scene! So much to take in, really great build

Nice to see it finished it looks bloody amazing! Very nice finish and weathering

That sounds cool, and yeah maybe we can start a trend of apache mod builds!

Yeah it's good making stuff from scratch, I used to spend a lot of time on the Maschinen Krueger forum when I was building kits, tons of cool stuff on there but I could never come up with a design I was happy with (we're always our biggest critics!) I'm fact I still have 2 academy Apache's that I got with the idea of making a super Jerry type walker with a 1/20 figure in the cockpit but just got caught up in other builds, I'll have to resurrect that idea at some point

Cheers Brian! Thanks Pete, yeah that word just seemed to fit! I've done a few Ma.k models and modded most of them so do have a few choice pieces here and there old bean; but your spares box must be a bottomless pit compared to mine with all the cool builds you've squeezed out of it!