Simple Gen Hawk LBC

chrysophylax · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:21 am

First up, Multicam:

Next, is the shemagh:

Third is urban camo:

Finally, some paint tweaks to RoC-inspired figures. Burnt Iron for Charbroil's armor, and platinum blonde for Helx' highlights:

- JM

JBYRDD · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:15 pm

Nice and tight camo paint apps, excellent work.

danielb · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:45 pm

Nice camo aps Chrys

really diggin the multi cam

Tex · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

nice cammo, Charbroil's and Helix's paint look weird to me though.

Silent Master · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am

I like the detail on Shemegh. looks a lot better that the brow that hasbro gave us. the rest looks good. good use of the apps for the camo jobs.

Tanstoys · **Joined:** Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:02 am

I like the greens on duke, well done on the camo

chrysophylax · **Posted:** Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:52 am

Thanks everyone.

Here's a new one, the Ice Viper. I wanted him to match the card art:

chrysophylax · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:32 am

Ripcord in ACUPAT/ARPAT/UCP:

- JM

David Jake · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:41 am

ice viper is pretty boss.

Maxtype · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:05 pm

I love that ACUPAT!

Any chance you'd do a tutorial? :-D

danielb · **Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:38 pm

Fantastic Job. Really nice Camo, and it really makes the sculpt pop.

chrysophylax · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 7:12 am

Maxtype wrote:

I love that ACUPAT!

Any chance you'd do a tutorial? :-D

I can't take credit for the technique since I just read it online somewhere, but I can't seem to find the article right now.

Basically, it involves, using salt as a mask to give the square pixel shapes.

First, paint the base color (in this case olive drab). Then sprinkle some salt on the figure. Spray with the second color (dark green). Sprinkle some more salt. Spray the third color (khaki). Wipe off the salt and you're left with square patterns. I used rock salt which has larger cuboidal grains than iodized salt like Morton.

In retrospect, I think I should have used the khaki as the base color instead of the last color since this one ended up looking too bright.

- JM

Maxtype · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:30 pm

OK-I know how to salt mask for say rust effects on a tank model.

But I never would have thought to use it for Digital Camouflage! :-D

Awe-SOME!

Thank you! :-D

bucky · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2007 10:19 am **Location:** IA

chrysophylax wrote:

Maxtype wrote:

I love that ACUPAT!

Any chance you'd do a tutorial? :-D

I can't take credit for the technique since I just read it online somewhere, but I can't seem to find the article right now.

Basically, it involves, using salt as a mask to give the square pixel shapes.

First, paint the base color (in this case olive drab). Then sprinkle some salt on the figure. Spray with the second color (dark green). Sprinkle some more salt. Spray the third color (khaki). Wipe off the salt and you're left with square patterns. I used rock salt which has larger cuboidal grains than iodized salt like Morton.

In retrospect, I think I should have used the khaki as the base color instead of the last color since this one ended up looking too bright.

- JM

What kind of paint are you spraying with? Like spray paint in a can?

chrysophylax · **Posted:** Wed Oct 14, 2009 5:11 am

bucky wrote:

What kind of paint are you spraying with? Like spray paint in a can?

Exactly. Specifically Tamiya's acrylic spray paints since that's what we have here... I imagine these aren't as readily available in the US though and I'm not familiar with US model paint brands :-/

- JM

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