Gatchabert colorways away...

let's see the blopbus and obake!

 

Oooh, intriguing... =)

 

blobpus is going to make its way to Japan. Obake is going to...someplace in the US

 

Well...Blobpus is on his way to Japan to be with his new owner. Thanks to Kirkland for playing delivery guy





As far as the Obake goes...he's still with me. I have one more figure to paint before I send out the Obake and the other figure to their new owner.



There's a lot of subtle colors that the camera can't pick up. Obake has some metallic green as well as metallic blue on the sheet and the figure underneath is nothing special. Flesh, titanium gold, and metallic blue...but I forgot to take a pic of the figure before I stuck it in the sheet. I have a feeling the heat might have caused some problems with the gold color.
(and that's not my place in the background)

 

Looks sweet Bert! Can't wait to see what you paint next!

Phil

 

NICE BLOBbert...!!!

 

At home in the water...
You can't see it but the top of his head is also blue.

Lost the pic somewhere...

 

zombie imp rules bert!

 

That Imp is so cool Bert!

 

that imp is greatness!

 

imho that zombie is your best work the lazy eye is perfect for that sculpt

 

Heck yeah, that imp is some serious custom work. I love that piece to death and the blood looks so clean and real. AWESOME.

 

The eyes are great on this- he's funny. =)

Oh while I'm thinking about it- how do you paint the eyes? Specifically the red part- did you freehand the circle, use a mask, or brush it on? Thats one aspect I always have trouble on- little circles.

phil

 

I just use a paintbrush for the eyes, along with all the other red and the silver teeth...oh...and the stitches. You can go through all the figures I painted and guess what's paintbrush and what's airbrush (if you're really bored at work). You can use a paintpen...I probably should. I'm really thinking about a paintpen because my brush skills are not as steady as they used to be. I think you all can see my trend going towards simplicity.

 

Gatchabert, that Imp is really really good!

For eyes...you can sometimes use the other end of your paintbrush. Just dip it in paint and do a test on something for size reference. Make a perfect little circle.

 

That's how I make little circles. My mom used to paint ceramics a lot (in the early 90's) and when I first got into painting she taught me that little trick. Works very nice!

 

from my own experience with that trick it usually leaves a raised effect to the circle that look wouldnt really lend it send to kaiju style painting would it?

 

There is a scene in the Marusan toy production video floating around this forum that shows one of the kaiju painters doing just what I described. You need to practice tapping out some of the paint first as to not apply to much.

 

The one I saw was at M1go with Dennis/Baikin. I laughed when the guy painted the eye because there are hypocrites on here that say sofuvi should only be painted with an airbrush (which I don't think was around when they first started making sofuvi).

 

Seriously. Excellent custom work alert here...

 

No, like redyoda said, if you thin your paint correctly and have minimal paint on the tip you can make a very thin dot. Practice makes perfect!

 

That Imp looks rad as hell. I have the unpainted version and never would have imagined it looking so nice painted up. We need a full color production run of the Imp!

 

All the pcs. in this thread look great, but there's definitely a big spot in my heart for the ghost story zag! The others are as good or even better, it just gets me.
BTW, that custom imp looks cool, is that sculpt based on a kappa?

 

Absolutely no doubt that it is based on a Kappa.

 

Bert , Your stuff rules!!! . I always like looking at your customs and art.