Hello fellow modellers!
Just a quick intro; My name is Chris, some of you may know me from the Automotive Forum which, up til now, has been the only forum I've bothered to post in but now I feel like joining other forums and making some new buddies! Others may know me from my Scale Auto Style products from a few years back.
I have been very slack with my model making and struggled to find the time or focus and finish a project for several years. I'm making more of a concerted effort to build something and it all boils down to not wasting time on things like the TV or video games - my current mantra is 'SWITCH IT OFF'!
Anyway, onto this project...
The idea for this is loosely inspired by this guy
- A real life UK superhero i.e. a slightly eccentric nerd who reads too many comics and likes to dress up in a fancy costume. The name seemed to fit my freshly sprayed Midnight Black Celsior which I felt had a slightly menacing look about it. I suppose every superhero also requires a cool car yet I imagine my Dark Spartan to be prowling the highways of Tokyo and not the one way system around Torbay in England. If any of you find a few spare minutes then I suggest you look into the UK real life superhero scene as I guarantee it will give you a chuckle - I'm quite fascinated by them!
Searching the net for spartan pictures for inspiration on a design I opted for a simple helmet silhouette and I looked into airbrushing techniques for painting lightning/electricity and the Dark Spartan Celsior was born. I'm no airbrush whizz kid by any means, this is the first time I've tackled anything like this and I made plenty of errors. However the beauty about this lightning/electricity technique is that the randomness of it will cover up any mistakes so I can recommend it if you have not been brave enough to attempt such a thing in the past.
From the helmet image a mask was cut out and positioned on the hood, Vajelo white acrylic was lightly airbrushed on, building up highlights in selected areas.
Using a fade resistant fine line drawing pen shadow and detail was added
Using Vajelo paints again I added some metalic detail and shading.
With mixes of Tamiya clear acrylics (smoke, yellow, red) I airbrushed more shading and highlight effects to give the helmet a metalic gold appearance.