Here's the link to the old site of the Halftrack/Lions Roar build
These were the last pictures posted back May of 09
That leads up to today. I had a really bad day of modeling. Everything I attempted went wrong. I went from Buffalo to Wildcat to GMC75, nothing grooved. I remembered reading the FSM article about SBS working with pigments so I thought I'd give it a shot in earnest this time. I have in the past worked with pigments but just as a dry shading. I have not worked with it wet. I mixed up several colors of mud, rust and even some white and used some acrylic medium as the wetting agent. I started caking on the mud up under the mud flaps and over the tracks, on the road wheel boogies. My first thought was OMG! what have I done!
I played around on the bottom side then thought, why bother?
I worked it back and forth some and washed it down with some water making a nice sludge, I even pulled out the airbrush to blow some air over it to speed up drying time, just to see what it looked like dry. I didn't try to cake it up any, just covering.
Whacha think? No really. Looking at the pictures all together I really can't tell much changed. Maybe more of a problem of not enough light on the subject.
These were the last pictures posted back May of 09
That leads up to today. I had a really bad day of modeling. Everything I attempted went wrong. I went from Buffalo to Wildcat to GMC75, nothing grooved. I remembered reading the FSM article about SBS working with pigments so I thought I'd give it a shot in earnest this time. I have in the past worked with pigments but just as a dry shading. I have not worked with it wet. I mixed up several colors of mud, rust and even some white and used some acrylic medium as the wetting agent. I started caking on the mud up under the mud flaps and over the tracks, on the road wheel boogies. My first thought was OMG! what have I done!
I played around on the bottom side then thought, why bother?
I worked it back and forth some and washed it down with some water making a nice sludge, I even pulled out the airbrush to blow some air over it to speed up drying time, just to see what it looked like dry. I didn't try to cake it up any, just covering.
Whacha think? No really. Looking at the pictures all together I really can't tell much changed. Maybe more of a problem of not enough light on the subject.
