great work! that looks so fucking good!
Picked up some little dudes like this one at an anime flea market a while back. Made this guy recently on stream. It’s apparently from a line called Animagear. They’re very much aimed for smaller kids to get them primed for big kid robot kits. You only really need a knife and/or pair of nippers to make them but I’m a bit of a sweat and like to shave away stress marks from the nubs. They come with a little piece of gum that tastes like a nice version of juicy fruit but looses it’s flavor about as fast.
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extremely intimidating roomba
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The Anger Cone
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Humans have these too, so it’s more than okay to give them to little plastic buddies.
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The foot on the left is Tamiya chrome silver over vallejo grey primer
The waist on the right is a DecoArt craft store acrylic thinned with windshield washer fluid over the same primer
I think the Tamiya has the edge with all the flake sticking to the matte surface of the primer and it ends up looking a lot like cast aluminum. It went on very easily with mr leveling thinner and started to build immediately. It looked great after one coat and I really only gave it more to use up the paint in the cup. It painted a spoon perfectly with absolutely zero prep.
The craft store acrylic definitely looks more like silver plastic but I was surprised at how un-fussy it was, it also started to build almost instantly and I didn’t need to aggressively flash dry between coats like the vallejo acrylics. Because the surface doesn’t rely so heavily on flake it seems a little more durable than the Tamiya. Seemed to form more of a film on my airbrush, nothing terrible though. Really needs primer, at least on my test spoon it instantly orange peeled.
Need to try them on top of a glossy surface 
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Last night was trying out (tamiya) clear red over metallic
The effect over the tamiya silver looks much better for a body panel but the craft acrylic version might look nice for a sensor or something if I’m ever feeling insane enough to airbrush something that tiny
I did not intend to give my robot sonic feet but now I’m gonna have the fastest zaku ever made
Also vallejo model color seems incredibly fragile, even after curing for days I managed to ruin the paint job with an extremely light touch. Maybe their mecha color line would work better as it’s supposed to have more polymer in it but the craft store stuff has been way less fussy so I think I’ll skip buying more vallejo entirely. The primer was fine I guess but I might just go back to mr surfacer rattlecans once I run out.
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the primer? I always use rattlecans, and grit my teeth and buy Citadel. spraying something Chaos Black and then basking in the coverage & preservation of fine details.
I dunno about colour coats, think some will seal Vallejo with flat/matte but a couple of coats might be needed for strength
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No, the primer was fine if a bit gritty (while the mr surfacer 1500 is just 
). Idk if I’d buy it again but I have a pretty big bottle and maybe I’ll understand it better as I go through it. I wonder if I can tint it, a red primer would be helpful…
It’s the thinned (with vallejo thinner!) Model Color that comes off or picks up marks with the slightest provocation. Maybe I added the second layer of paint too quickly? Still, basically everything else seems to work better sooo
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I loooove mr surfacer. my plan for when I get my airbrush from Miguel is to spraycan with that and paint with everything else. I’m really excited about windshield wiper paint thinning craft paints now, and that stuff jack talked about in the gunpla discord
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It might be a little overkill but I love golden soflat paint.
But I mostly use Citadel because it may be pricy but it just works. and stays on well.
That said I have never had any real problems with Vallejo, except ironically the primer, which makes me curious what’s up.
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Lots of painting yesterday, surprise winner is metallic blue over purple
Aquamarine blue over titanium gold also turned out very pretty but I don’t have an individual picture of it. My first time trying an “artist” acrylic with a lot more body, thinning it took forever. And the first coat I applied immediately orange peeled, but fortunately the undercoat used a different solvent so I could wipe it off real quick and try again.
Sooooon my Zaku I ver. K(lown) will be complete
Just need to paint the torso, the head, and some hands. And the thighs because those kind of look like shit.
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