Mini review and product recommendation. Recently I have liked to add some grease and oil stains to the joints and workings of the Maschinen Krieger suits. There are many ways to do this, I’ve used Tamiya Enamel Smoke mixed with pigments, also adding Tamiya Enamel Clear Yellow and Clear Orange and that works well too [...]

   
With some of the basic ideas floating around, I got to playing with some blocks. 2 basic shapes I liked, the “bunker” which I shaped with 4 rough squares of 1cm thick foam and the other traingular piece for some high and to off-set the cube.
I found that by using the edge of the cube [...]

Archival Image #356-946 Warrant Officer Martin “SharkMouth” Brody after the first successful defense of MoonBase Alpha. Records of the actual date are unclear but our experts place this battle in the year A.D. 288*CENSORED CLASSIFIED*. One of the newly commissioned teams issued with the S.A.F.S. Space Type 2 “SNAKE-EYE” suits, W.O. Brody and his wingman [...]

The new Wave SnakeEye Engine Bells are a fantastic addtion to the new kit. First of all, they are now one piece! The ridges made the old ones quite difficult to put together cleanly but now with a sharp file, some folded sandapaper you can have these little gems tidied up in minutes.

It’s not necessary [...]

   
Some more shots of suit #1 to show the color mods and highlights to the top.
     
Highlighting, shading, color mods some details done for suit#2.
Next up, a little more filtering and color modification, I think the grey will look cool with a blue sheen to it, some pin washes to enhance the details and start on [...]