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Post by boricua on May 17, 2012 9:46:06 GMT -5
what is metal sintering?
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 17, 2012 21:15:59 GMT -5
I could try to explain it but I will end up sounding like a retard. Look it up in wikipedia.  }D |
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Post by magengar on May 18, 2012 15:07:25 GMT -5
Perhaps "sintering" means the same as Plating? No matter what becomes of it, it still looks Badass that style sculpt and all, great engineering with them joints as well.  zozo-mag |
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 22, 2012 1:02:09 GMT -5
Man... I'm sort of stuck with the paint job!  The color of the body is a weird shade of blue - not dark like the shoulder pads, but not a light blue. Watching the Great Mazinger anime, the blue looks to me more like a purple. However, I did a test paint on a severely battle damaged version of Ankoku (prototype), and it doesn't look right either. I had no idea the color scheme was going to be so damn difficult to match!  Let's see how long it takes me to get the colors right. Hopefully it won't be too long...  }/ |
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Post by boricua on May 22, 2012 11:43:25 GMT -5
come on!!!! now the paint?  ?? when is it going to be finished! dont tell me this is going to be like the ufo king grendizer custom figure that acturus never ever finished or updated us again! this is disheartening for me man!!!! |
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 24, 2012 0:04:37 GMT -5
But paint is like the most important thing! ;D It is just going to take a little longer, that's all... }D |
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Post by magengar on May 26, 2012 10:48:40 GMT -5
Try adding a tiny drop of white paint into a blue paint puddle
and test it on a prototype.
Sometimes you may have to mix paint colors to get the shade
you need.
zozo-mag
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Post by magengar on May 26, 2012 10:50:19 GMT -5
If the white makes it too bright, then go the other way
and add a single tiny drop of Black paint into the blue puddle.
Test the mix on a prototype... if not dark enough,
add another drop of Black until you get the shade you need.
Oh, and STIR the mixture completely, you Don't want the color
mixture to "stripe".
zozo-mag
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 28, 2012 13:48:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess I'll have to start mixing paint (which I really hate). It is just a b*tch to duplicate if I ever need to do any touch up to the figure. What color do you think the chest and forearms are? I think is purple, but it can also be sort of "denim" blue. The rest of the colors are not hard to match to the anime, but the chest and forearms are giving me hell! }\ |
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Post by droutmaster on May 28, 2012 16:36:34 GMT -5
is more of like a dark bluish purple actually
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 29, 2012 9:03:16 GMT -5
That's the problem. In the pictures I find online the color is dark blue, but in the actual anime the color is denim bluish or some shade of purple. I looked at my Aoshima Anime version and it is purple, but to me its colors are all jacked up. This is driving me crazy!!! }D |
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Post by droutmaster on May 29, 2012 15:42:02 GMT -5
hmm i see what you mean
since your doing the anime 70's version the quality of those videos are not the best and and in toy forms there colors looks different from the animes and are not so reliable. may i suggest to looks for another source of material that has better quality images like the Dynamic Super Robots Grand Battle movie and the Go Nagai's e-mangas Gaiden Dynamic Heroes, those have better images of Ankoku Daishogun.
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Post by magengar on May 29, 2012 16:43:24 GMT -5
I hear ya there. To keep that same paint mixture for future use you'd have to actually Measure how many drops of color added to x-amount of the other color, and write it down so ya don't forget it. Whenever I mix paint colors I use an eye dropper and a sthingy for measuring... The eye dropper will add the darker color to the sthingy of the lighter color. A long time ago I painted an old Power Ranger into a custom Koji action figure... I had to mix paint to get the color for the flesh on Koji's face... so, I used a small Tylenol container to mix the paint: 1 sthingy of red mixed with one eye-dropper of white.... ...I only squeeze one single drop of the white... I added one single eye-drop of white to every sthingy of the red, until I got the right color tone for the flesh. I then stored that color mixture in a glass Baby Food jar and date it. When the paint mixture gets too old to use, I mix a new batch using my measurement notes for reference so I can get the same consistency of the mixture. Sounds extremely like "rocket-science", but it works for me. lol ==== Hey... why won't this webpage let me type the word s- p- o- o- n?!!! It replaces the word with "sthingy"! ;D zozo-mag Yeah, I guess I'll have to start mixing paint (which I really hate). It is just a b*tch to duplicate if I ever need to do any touch up to the figure. }\ |
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Post by TheMazingerZ on May 30, 2012 23:05:44 GMT -5
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Post by droutmaster on May 30, 2012 23:20:12 GMT -5
that is a pretty cool battle damage Ankoku Daishogun, to bad you cant make the skirt articulated to improve its articulation.
in your working progress of Ankoku Daishogun, if you make his gloves and chest armor a tiny bit lighter it would look better.
btw where are you basing this Ankoku Daishogun figure from?
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Post by magengar on May 31, 2012 15:41:20 GMT -5
Hmmmm.... make his kilt into separate plates, and
line the plates from the inside with a piece of a
black bicycle inner-tube rubber..... like a black "kilt"
underneath the plates of the outer kilt.
zozo-mag
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Post by DUKE 77 on Jun 1, 2012 6:54:53 GMT -5
Wow, TMZ! You surly have the talent, the patience and the passion!
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Post by boricua on Jun 1, 2012 11:30:57 GMT -5
if those are discarded pieces then i cant think of what the good pieces are!!!! looks super good!
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Post by B- on Jun 1, 2012 18:34:00 GMT -5
Maz did you cast the put together toy version of Daishogun to make this guy?,cant remember the maker,action series I think?
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Post by TheMazingerZ on Jun 1, 2012 22:58:29 GMT -5
Maz did you cast the put together toy version of Daishogun to make this guy?,cant remember the maker,action series I think? This one - and custom modifications.  }D |
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