All posts filed under “Scale Modeling

Deep Rock Galactic Gunner Mini

A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. Here’s a gallery with ~80 pictures. This project took me a little over 4 hours to complete. Things I learned:

D&D Ogre Zombie

This project was a test subject to learn how to paint the figures that come with the board game version of Deep Rock Galactic. Here’s a gallery with ~90 pictures. This project took me about 5 hours to complete. Things…

Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Steps 9 and 10

These two steps were about the seats and interior door panels. Here are the two galleries: I tried two different types of masking for the seats (flat black vs. semi-gloss black). The easiest approach was wide masking tape and trimming…

Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 9

This step was about the interior cabin. Here’s the gallery with 18 images of this step. For me the real star of the show was the black embossing powder on top of the Pledge Revive-it (floor wax). It gives some…

Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 8

This step was about the dashboard details. Here’s the gallery with 18 images of this step. The trickiest part of this step was how small everything was. When the decals are only a few millimeters wide, sliding them off means…

Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 7

This step was about the instrument panel. Here’s the gallery with 11 images of this step. This step went smoothly — paint, assemble, and apply some decals. Lesson learned: Use gloves when handling semi-gloss painted surface so you don’t leave…

Tamiya Mazda MX-5 – Step 5

This step was about the underbody. Here’s the gallery with 39 images of this step. For this step, it was about combining a single piece with some assemblies created in previous steps. The challenge is that the underbody has three…