WE had a very successful GB and Here are the Winners.

Alright, People. You are probably Aware of the Chaos Group Build We were having. I made a blog post about this as well back when it started - LINK  ( for Recap )

After a very successful group with 88 finished model, it was the time for the staffs to judge and came up with the results and the results are as follow -

Best Paint Jobs 

1st Galland: M4A2 Sherman- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2556.0

2nd Big Z: MG Shin Matsunaga Zaku II 2.0- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2310.0

3rd Lemniscate: MS Build Freedom Conversion- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2530.0

4th GoodGuyDan: HGUC Byarlant- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2106.0

5th Steezy: MG Nemo- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2299.0

Best Modifications

1st Tigrillo- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2544.0

2nd Dumpling: Air Whale- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2511.0

3rd Beork: Decal Hell- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2551.0

4th Ijoezel: G.H.O.S.T.S- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2555.0

5th Pawces: MG 00 7 swords- http://www.gundamuk.com/mechaloungeforums/index.php?topic=2545.0 

Here is what the winners have to choose from EXCEPT FOR THE GENOBREAKER AND THE POSTERS ( the posters will be randomized.)

Before I proceed any further, Here are a few words from one of our Admin, Harry - 

''''' Congrats to everyone on making this GB a blast and putting in some killer entries. I hope you all enjoyed this GB as much as the staff did. A lot of the judging came down to some really really tough calls. Here's how this will work. In order of placement I want the winners to come in here and select what prize they want. Tigrillo will not be receiving a prize for winning "Best Modifications" because he has already won the grand prize and I want more people to get a chance at prizes because we will be doing some random picks as well as prize donor picks as well. I did this in favour of previous complaints we have received in our 2012 Mecha Contest hosted by Kamm and Sneeper. ''' 

Thank you all for making this GB a fun one. I enjoyed very much myself and there have been a lot of interaction between members and everybody was having fun, building and commenting, throwing banters back and forth.

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MG Acguy Ver. Hummingbird

Hello All and All Hello ...

It has really been a long long time since I have finished a Gunpla. So many reasons behind that but two main factors are - '' I have not enough time for gunpla '' and '' I'm a little bit tired of some of the elitism and lack of interest to modelling in the Gunpla community ''. But to assure my friends that I am still modelling Gunpla, I made this one. Nothing special about this guy, I bought from ebay ( along with a Gp02 and a Alteisen ) so cheaply and I thought to myself, '' this guy will be my guinea pig to practice and experiment ''.

The main camo scheme is inspired by Camo put on German uboats such at these -

I just used a variety of shade(tone??!!, however it is called ) of blue just because I thought it would be cooler then grey.


Here's the profile views all on four sides of the Acguy -

I figure with the base colour scheme and a camo like that which will also double act as a fake water reflection, it will be pretty hard to detect this guy by sight.

And I would like to be blunt and frank in the upcoming info. You might notice that the entire left arm has no camo applied and left slightly less weathered. Now, I know ( for a fact ) that people will ask/say why is it like that. So let me show you how I got the idea ( if there is no prove, people could say I forgot to paint or blah blah, which in fact was already stated to me twice ). As you know, I am also a AFV modeller and I read monthly magazine.  And I got this idea from this issue -

specifically this article -

and within this article, there's a picture -

Whether in the Chaos GB scenario or the OYW or any kind of war, anything can happen to men and machine and I just wanted to portray some thing like that while being creative at the same time.

I have been improving my weathering and since this is my guinea pig, I went all out. I used Vallejo German Camo Black Brown for the chipping. I chipped with fine point brush and sponge. I still need more practice with sponge ( it give great effect but applying that is tricky)

I decided to put in rust on area that water could and would pool. GDX of plamocon asked did I put on any streaking and the answer is yes, I did. Streaking 1/100 is very hard for me and I got to keep in mind to keep the streaking very tiny. The rust application was an experiment. I played around with MIG pigments, water and vallejo acrylic  I got to admit, I love using a mixture of thinned pigment+acrylic paint, it maintained the properties of both materials and clean up was easy.

I forgot how I used the colours but the colours involved are ( all tamiya ) - dark blue, blue, royal blue, sea grey, neutral grey, metallic grey, flat aluminium, white, deck tan and buff.

Per the norm from me, here's a number of poses -

and If you want to check out the close ups, just follow these links ( as usual, I divide all into sub section )-
Arms -
http://s1001.beta.photobucket.com/user/hummingbird2012/library/MG%20Accguy/Arms

Body - http://s1001.beta.photobucket.com/user/hummingbird2012/library/MG%20Accguy/Body

Head - http://s1001.beta.photobucket.com/user/hummingbird2012/library/MG%20Accguy/head

legs -
http://s1001.beta.photobucket.com/user/hummingbird2012/library/MG%20Accguy/Legs

There may have been some mistake ( big or small ) that I made but still  this is a little bit better then how I usually paint Gunpla... LOL ( I suck at painting in gunpla). Even with the flaws, I am happy to see this came out like this.

Enjoy and thanks for the support as well. Until next time an HAPPY MODELLING.

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Tamiya 1/35 Konigtiger, Ardennes Front, Command version - GROUND TEAM

The kit was a re-box of an older kit Tamiya released but sadly I cannot narrow down how exactly ago but some sources told me it was released on 2003 so lets just go with that.

I really really had fun working on this cat. I also learned a lot of stuffs as well.

The colour I used were a mix of ( all Tamiyas ) dark yellow + tan for the base, blue and yellow to get my own shade of olive green , red,brown, dark red and hull red get the red-brown shade I like. Literally the same as the colours I used on my Panther.

And Like the Panther, after my base coat, follows a massive bombardment of gloss, flat, filters and washes. The Hardedges were painted using Blu-tac for masking.

I Forgot how I painted the tracks... sorry ...

I didn't make the rust as dark as how I did on the Panther as This vehicle is most likely to be only 4 months ( at most ) so I wanted to keep the rust more fresh, hence, a brighter tone and because of that, I also kept the chipping to a minimum except the busy and maintained engine area. The same procedure from the Panther's rust was used here.

I didn't do any streaking for a vehicle operating in a very cold environment like the Ardennes Forest so I avoided that entirely.

The Snow effect was put on using Game Workshop snow effect thingy. Unfortunately, they were not in powder form but in some kind of small shaped stuffs that when I sprinkled them on, it looks more like white cut grass are on the vehicle, although it looks fine from far away but on camera, it looks really bad. The stuff is great for making clump snow though. I opted out of using baking soda due to a article I read that explain that baking power react with paints and make some kind of disgusting brownish gooey stuff.

I been looking at references dioramas and some internet researches and I came to the conclusion that the Ardennes Forest has some kine of chocholate/milky brown colour mud so I tried my best to reproduce them at much as possible. I also tried my best to put in some snow in the muds ( personally, I do not think that is convincing enough but this is my first time putting snow so I can't complain much )

This is also my 2nd time painting figures and 1st time painting on flesh and eyes on the face. I made some boo-boos but I'm still happy they came out at least OK.

I'm not sure If I did good or not I loved how it looks myself. I  put down more of the methods I learn on this cat and it was well worth it.

The ONLY thing I am not happy about is the Stern Antenna. Sadly, I used a rather thick diameter rod for the star shaped end and it ended up rather large compared with vehicle in scale Damn it to all.. I realize it but I couldn't be bother to build a new one any more .. IT was a hard thing to make  

But enough chit-chat .... Its time for the photos -
Lets start with some walk-around, profile views
If you think the Photos are small, just click on them and the full size will pop up

 

Much like my Panther and the earlier C1 Ariete, I broke this guy down into sub albums so I can cover everything I done just as you guys can look into each section seperately -

Here comes the top views -

Various chippings I put on -

The exhaust rust-

The mud I put on all over the chassis-

And some shots a little bit more close ups of the snow I put on -

and last but not least, the two crew men from the SS-PanzerAbteilung 501 -

And some bibs and bobs of different angles photos I shot just for fun -

'' BANG '' 

 And That covers all I have done. 

I know I am not a pro and I still have much to learn but I really love how this looks and really enjoy knowing how much I can apply what I have learned these past few months. I'm really happy to add this in my list of finished kit. 

and as always, I could not finish this without the support of my great friends and peers and comrades. Your supports are much appreciated.

Thanks for looking. C&C and feedbacks are welcomed. 

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