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Planning and structure (Concept & frame building)
Medium (Clay) application, setting & surface detailing
Painting & finishing
With your sculpture detailed and ready, now it's time to add one splash of colour with some paint, then finishing it to lock them in.
Prechecks
Ensure that your model had completely dried out before attempting to paint. The painting process by itself will...
Article table of contents
Planning and structure (Concept & frame building)
Medium (Clay) application, setting & surface detailing
Painting & finishing
Now I will cover the main star of the show- the clay medium, it's application as well as detailing the clay as it sets.
Choice of clay
I choose white clay for this tutorial as it allows to be molded with moisture. It's simple...
Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents
Intro, cutting & sanding pieces
Priming & painting
Detailing
Assembling & decalling
Posing & finishing
Posing & Finishing
This last page of the tutorial very much covers the remaining steps for your model, such as final touch-ups, finishing & displaying your finished master piece.
Finishing Touches
After assembling all the pieces together, if needed, do some light sanding to remove...
Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents
Intro, cutting & sanding pieces
Priming & painting
Detailing
Assembling & decalling
Posing & finishing
Assembling - Part assembly
This is the point where you've got everything almost done, painted & awaiting the assembly phase. Besides saving you a bunch load of work space having to hold your parts laid out previously & its also one of the most...
Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents
Intro, cutting & sanding pieces
Priming & painting
Detailing
Assembling & decalling
Posing & finishing
Getting on fine details
Usually my favorite part of the whole process. It involves drawing, painting or spraying in the details which gives your model the extra personal touch & uniqueness. It is this cross-road step where the true skills of a modeler shines,...
Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents
Intro, cutting & sanding pieces
Priming & painting
Detailing
Assembling & decalling
Posing & finishing
The School of Thoughts
While most amateur modelers simply just smack together all pieces & paint later, this is not the recommended way as you eventually have to disassemble the model again to paint those hard to reach places. If you plan to model,...
I kit model as a personal hobby, I particularly like assembling mechas and vehicles. Besides getting down & dirty, the past time involves the combination of ones patience, skill, tool handling, let be painting or adding details to produce one-off models unique to a modeler's wants and imagination.
Kit Modeling tutorial article table of contents
Intro, cutting & sanding pieces
Priming...
Recieved a private call from Singapore press holdings representative today, telling me that I've won the Straits Times classified graffiti art competition! (yay!) Then she won't on taking down my details, age & so but failed to tell me which placing I've got into. Meaning I am in the top 3, but whether I am 1st, 2nd or third...
I enjoy sketching and drawing as a form of expression, not to mention a way to relax as well. It's a hobby I enjoy doing since I was a kid and never stopped since. This tutorial will cover some of the basic techniques I use in creating various hand-drawn artworks you see around the site.
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Line art...
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Line art and planning your piece
Digital colouring with Photoshop
Colouring in Photoshop
I use primarily Adobe PhotoShop 7.0 for computer generated art and for colouring my black & white pieces, it a very much cheaper alternative too actualy buying physical colouring tools and supplies for colour. Ulead photo express is my second most used software, though I prefer...
Its a boring day today, spent most of my day in singnet counter-strike servers, met some of my usual "cs" buddies there. Also updated the stylesheet for few of the site's pages.
Doddled abit on a request sent to me for some were rabbit morph-piece, done with the sketch, will most probably be scanning and coloring it tomorrow. Its gonna...