THE CLUBHOUSE

Thanks everyone! Happy to have something on the completed list for once.

Finally painted up a thing. My kid calls this a "megature." https://i.postimg.cc/CR4mHTVX/IMG-20200907-183353.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PL3y9WJM/IMG-20200907-183404-1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/SXNVgTSs/IMG-20200907-183414.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/9rZx0wgW/IMG-20200907-183426-Edited.jpg

Wowzers, fantastic work....how'd you do?

Makes sense to me. If I had the materials and skills I'd do it also. Having one egg to show as a lit version and one opaque is the ideal way to do it.

I would see absolutely nothing wrong with recasting something from a kit to enhance that kit. If you sold it as your own, that's a different animal. I think having two of the egg is a wonderful idea.

RudeDogg1 wrote:Ill prob get flamed for this but Im planning on recasting my egg in water clear resin....

I never felt a lack of control, per se, when dremeling. Its not the thickness of the egg that's the problem. Its pretty much that the resin is cloudy to begin with, so once you add paint to it, you can either have the paint thin enough to show light, or thick enough to look good unlit. I never found...

Thanks everybody! Happy to be done. In some ways, this was a great kit to see "wide release" for, in others, it didn't have the care and attention you'd find in some GK dealers, so kinda fun, kinda disappointing, but happy its over and on a shelf now.

looks great. Did you cobble the together the lighting yourself or is it a aftermarket kit? A little of both. I bought it from an individual who made them. Don't remember who it was at this point, it was eons ago that I bought it, unfortunately. Nothing you can't do yourself from a place like modelt...

Pretty much came to the conclusion that really you need two eggs. One for lighting, one for shelf display. I simply don't feel you can have it both ways with one, and it look good, so I punted, and painted it opaque instead. I think I'm happier for it. I would've liked to have had a 2nd one that I c...

Got tired of it and just ramrodded him through. Also, photographing lit LEDs isn't my strong suit. Thanks for looking! More bandwidth saving pics here. https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EkC9eWdqgwM/WYhuplqINcI/AAAAAAAADaU/XINPqN_pMZomgdCa27s3HyriXlW82VqxACLcBGAs/s1600/_MG_4865.JPG https://3.bp.blogspot.com...

Sounds similar to my glazing solution. I use glazes for veining as well, same basic concept, thin paint, but not a wash, just tints the color a bit. That's what that brown color was, just two coats of glazes.

Yeah I just got done looking at alcohol ink, which is super bright and vivid, but I think wouldn't look very good unlit. Haven't tried watercolors, but I did buy some acrylic inks today to test after the purple stuff bath. How would the WCs look unlit?

My issue with doing washes is that while it would look pretty good when lit, it still shows enough "clear" that it won't look good just on a shelf alone. I actually "primed" the egg in Future prior, so I'm hip to its uses for the most part. Just....I see what polar lights tried t...

OK, I'm back, and decided to host the pics of the WIP egg to show what's going on. I'e thinned the inner wall out as close as I dare: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6xaehsidKPA/WWy4M3xNCtI/AAAAAAAADZE/yR5oyAeNGJ4v1qvUoQxQmS0qhWUW3BIrQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_20170530_191120.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xLkbFZ...

Well that's quite the standard you're setting there. Bravo.

Yeah, there's juuuuuust a little flicker of movement in the film as it coils up like a snake. There are a few people who have put flickering LEDs in the egg to simulate that, but I've never been a huge fan of movement in models. Kane doesn't move, so the hugger shouldn't either. The LED I have for t...

Yeah I've had a local modeler give the same opinion....paint the hugger "extra Broadway" he said, so it would show up better. Upon further frame-by-frame reference, I've decided on of the crucial issues is the fact that the mound of whatever the face hugger is resting on, is just conjectur...

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I was about to come on here and ask about the egg and did a search, finding this thread. So I've been doing a lot of research (which means lots of movies and popcorn, obviously) into the egg. Originally, I was going to pose the question on here (b/c I can't find th...

Depending on the kit size, I almost exclusively use them. If you're using them for 1/6 scale kits, yeah, they're not very cost effective. But I rarely buy a new bottle of them. Once you take a dab of them and put them on your palette and thin them out, they'll last a good long while. And their prime...

I was wondering this (and assuming the worst) earlier today. I'd assume models are long gone. Its been a couple of years since their last release, and they were all prepaints. Models stopped with the Hall of Armor, alas. All I wanted out of the deal was a Drax.