I’ve been back on my miniatures painting bullshit again (finally) and my Japanese model kit inspired battletech paint jobs are coming along great.
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Started building another big ‘ol’ box of warhammer. This is my absolutely gonna finish this box mission. Currently building anime space communist bugs.
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Heard that Aquarion is getting a new show soon and I had a good time with the original way back when so I went looking on Mandarake and found this SMP kit of the three vectors. Built these with in the last week or so building up stream hours on twitch. First time touching this model line. Fairly standard parts layout on the sprue. Plastic feels nice like for proper toy grade that feels sturdy in the hand where the average HG model feels like they might snap with the wrong twist. Clearance on some of these parts are tight. Had to brake out a file to get some peg/rod parts to fit into the appropriate holes. Just did a pure build for now. Will hum and haw what paint applications I want to do or use the decals later. I’ll run through their gattai formations later as well.
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I did not finish base coating the space marine. new paints for Christmas, trying out on a prepped chaos warrior that’s been sitting around for the right moment
these are Louise Sugden’s cash grab (Pro Acryl Signature Series), where they get a well-known mini painter to pick 6 colours. sugs chose the brightest pigments closest to RGB & CMY because she loves mixing. the green and yellow make a kind of Vantagreen too powerful for minis (I will use it for basing)
not done with blocking the colours, and highlighting is an issue with the 150W daylight bulb making everything look nice and bright → dull and muddy under normal room lighting
very fun slapping on a useful amount of paint between dinner and bathtime
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This looks suuuuper cool. I love the backlight vibes!
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I need to take some better shots of the eight finished battlemechs I have but this guy is nearly done, and I’m so pleased with the camo pattern.
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i have been enjoying sugden’s podcast with her mates, really into miniaturepaint videos me
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Made the HG GQuuux today. Fun build if a little tricky with tiny accent parts but it’s fun to look at from all angles. Saving painting a panel lines for another day.
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OOO cool to hear that it’s fun to build, still wanna pick one up
You get to build 2 heads and it has so many tiny parts.
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I don’t like the design of the gquuuuuux at all (greebling that looks like every bad hard-surface modeling tutorial) but it seems like a great and fun build, nice color separation on the parts
first one I agree is bad (in basically the same way gquuuux greebles bother me)
second one is overdone, especially the hands and shoulders, but is not the style that bothers me (since the greebles mostly have implicit functions: panels bolted to a chassis with lots of visible bolt points is fine imo)
my taste in greebling is for the greebles to not actively impede the functioning of the machine, or at least to have some sort of implied purpose. Gquuuuux and your first pic just look like a gamer mouse from 2012 to me.
this is what about it bothers me. too many greebles is awful and hideous. like someone just tweaked out on the fucker
if you do greebles like that they only dont look like you went on a weekend meth bender with a scriber if you do em on the frame instead and just have some of it poke through the armor
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I think a good paint job would rectify the visual noisiness of the greeble zaku. They are way too contrasty with just panel lining
yeah you could use a lot of thick paint to just fill in all that bullshit 
I enjoy the Quuux for how garish it is and it feels like it’s making a new flavor of “real type” robot calling to more modern robot designs like you see on Boston dynamics type stuff. You see it a lot more on the White/Red Gramps in Quux. Just a lot of weird details like exposed gas tanks and feet that are more like hooves that tell you this thing is not meant to go to earth ever. It has a very unique silhouette so makes for a lot of dynamic angles to view it from. It’s much more than your usual linked together boxes.
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