by FourEyedMonster | Apr 16, 2022
In the final few assembly/painting phases of the Aratech 74-Z Military Speeder Bike, work will progress from the bike's bow/front to its stern/rear, with the upper-facing sections worked on first before the bottom facing ones. Sounds confusing? Well, hopefully things...
by FourEyedMonster | Apr 8, 2022
With inertia on the Space Battleship Yamato project finally overcome, the pendulum now swings back towards work on the Star Wars Speeder Bike, specifically prepping the bike for attachment to a base, and building the base itself. Now there are two ways the Star Wars...
by FourEyedMonster | Apr 2, 2022
For the longest time, roughly about 19 months to be exact, the Space Battleship Yamato 2199 Cosmo Reverse Version project had laid dormant due to an oxymoronic reason of a miniature painting taking a dislike to painting small things. If a miniature or scale model kit...
by FourEyedMonster | Mar 26, 2022
Because of the nature of the Speeder Bike's dark metal alloy (aka black metal), metallic scuff and scratch marks were painted as well as dry-brushed onto the the chassis and main frame structure (see previous post) in order to bring out both details and structural...
by FourEyedMonster | Mar 18, 2022
Tempted as I was to strip the Girl's Rider miniature figurine's denim jeans down to its primer coat and begin painting from scratch, I felt it was too drastic a step to take. I couldn't bring myself to just write-off the untarnished areas of the denim texture, which...
