Yep we are still working on the base because when I finish painting Sophie I will lost interest and the base will look horrible. And yes, Yosubato is making another appearance, although she seems busy with the ferret.
The idea is that I need to fit the miniature in place BEFORE it got painted. One hard lesson that I learn from doing dioramas. It comes with a small base so that its foot and tail have somewhere to sit on. I did my best in cutting and chipping away the metal base and made it as small as possible. Then I chipped a hole on the 'rock' and try to fit it in, and used green stuff to fill in the gap around it. Because the rock is actually clay it doesn't really stick to the green stuff too much. I managed to wiggle it off the rock pretty easily.
(It just occur to me that I need to pin it to the base when it is done else it will fall out of place.)
I got a small lump of green stuff left after I fixed up the base for the ferret, so I used them to smooth over the cutting marks on the structures.
As it turns out it looks quite nice and smooth. Good thing about green stuff is that it won't shrink a lot, unlike putty. Because it felt a bit like hard rubber I can actually scrape on it to create a smoother surface.
I always thought of replacing her wings with another more futuristic wings like the one in the picture. But as it turns out it isn't such a good idea because the wings (taken from SD Gundum) is too "cartoonish". Plus, the diorama has a lot of nature elements to it so I guess her original wings would fit better. It costed me US$5 to buy the SD Gundum and it's pretty costly just for that pair of wings. Oh well.
Originally I thought of adding a pin to the tip of the wing but it seems pretty hard and she would get too high off ground. Instead I placed two pins to the back of the tip. It took a bit of very careful drilling and I almost drilled through to the other side with the upper one. It created a small bubble on the front and I had to send it away. I am very surprised the brass rod could actually hold her up, but I guess at the end I would have to glue the wing to the structure.
So to make the structure looks more damaged and blended in with the whole setting, I will do a lot of weathering to it. I had never did salting before so probably I had wasted a bit of pigments here. What I did is I used Secret Weapon wash as the suspension medium and added a lot of pigments to the mix. It looks very good actually but I haven't let got a good shot at it yet. The thing is, because I will be doing salting, a lot of the pigment will be lost in the process. So I could have simply just painted it brown instead of using pigments... but I guess I want to see how it looks like if I use medium and pigments. Oh well.
Until next entry, thanks for reading.
The idea is that I need to fit the miniature in place BEFORE it got painted. One hard lesson that I learn from doing dioramas. It comes with a small base so that its foot and tail have somewhere to sit on. I did my best in cutting and chipping away the metal base and made it as small as possible. Then I chipped a hole on the 'rock' and try to fit it in, and used green stuff to fill in the gap around it. Because the rock is actually clay it doesn't really stick to the green stuff too much. I managed to wiggle it off the rock pretty easily.
(It just occur to me that I need to pin it to the base when it is done else it will fall out of place.)
I got a small lump of green stuff left after I fixed up the base for the ferret, so I used them to smooth over the cutting marks on the structures.
As it turns out it looks quite nice and smooth. Good thing about green stuff is that it won't shrink a lot, unlike putty. Because it felt a bit like hard rubber I can actually scrape on it to create a smoother surface.
I always thought of replacing her wings with another more futuristic wings like the one in the picture. But as it turns out it isn't such a good idea because the wings (taken from SD Gundum) is too "cartoonish". Plus, the diorama has a lot of nature elements to it so I guess her original wings would fit better. It costed me US$5 to buy the SD Gundum and it's pretty costly just for that pair of wings. Oh well.
Originally I thought of adding a pin to the tip of the wing but it seems pretty hard and she would get too high off ground. Instead I placed two pins to the back of the tip. It took a bit of very careful drilling and I almost drilled through to the other side with the upper one. It created a small bubble on the front and I had to send it away. I am very surprised the brass rod could actually hold her up, but I guess at the end I would have to glue the wing to the structure.
I am pleased at the result, the whole point is to make her look like she is flying. But personally I would always look for the connection point, the part where the model is connected and suspended. Because it is connected in a less conventional way it would be less obvious to the viewer, so I hoped.
Until next entry, thanks for reading.
