Boubi WIP

[boubi]

What kind if resin did you use for the water and where did you purchase it? Also, how did you go about tinting the color of it? Thanks!

I bought the resin on Taobao (chinese ebay). It is the biggest online market in China, millions of transaction per day but you can find nearly everything. For the hobby it is really great! I paid the resin less than 3USD for 250ml.
The problem is I don't know which type of resin it is I just have a number. I have tried several and this one was the only one not getting yellow after few days.
I have not tinted it, actually, I was planning to do it... and... I ... simply forgot it in the excitement to pour the resin in the mould and see the result.

Oh my word, incredible. Same questions from me as BoK.
I never knew about polishing paste but is something I'm eager to try.

Holy wow that came out great...and same questio as BFK and gandalf

Demi I heard start out with a rough grit and move progressively to a finer, 1000 or so grit paper. And people I know if do it by hand.

Yes I tried with sand paper, starting with 1000, with some water to smooth it out, then up to 2000, but the surface was not smooth, it was slightly better but sill had marks from the casing, like white foggy marks. It was still ok to let it go but I wanted to try out something and I remembered about the cheap dremmel copy I bought, so I tried to polish it just with the buffing wheel, not much difference... then I saw that there was a paste together, tried it out and in less than 2min the base was clear like water!

Use the buffing wheel, NOT the grinding stone! Lol

 

[Darthmarsh]

Dude the oils on that coat look amazing!

loving the progress on the bust. My only critique would be that at the moment it looks a little to clean and she looks a little to healthy. The sculpt screams battered space grease monkey to me, I reckon she needs a little dusting up, oil stains on the overall (or some form of insignia?) and maybe a slightly paler skin tone. Obviously you're not finished yet and whatever you do i'm sure it will look stellar

That base, that water effect.................wow!

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

You need to start much rougher with the grit. Like 50 grit or something. Very rough so that it really makes a mess of things. Then you get progressively softer as you sand away the damage you did with the 50 or 100 grit. Whole process should take hours. But #1 you seem to have figured out an alternative #2 I am not speaking from experience, but rather a tutorial. So, you have to tell us. What is this paste you found to clear out the resin?

 

[boubi]

Dude the oils on that coat look amazing!

loving the progress on the bust. My only critique would be that at the moment it looks a little to clean and she looks a little to healthy. The sculpt screams battered space grease monkey to me, I reckon she needs a little dusting up, oil stains on the overall (or some form of insignia?) and maybe a slightly paler skin tone. Obviously you're not finished yet and whatever you do i'm sure it will look stellar

That base, that water effect.................wow!

Thank you, the coat was one of the easiest part to paint with oil on this mini, it is perfect for this type of large areas. And it has a good effect at the end!

You need to start much rougher with the grit. Like 50 grit or something. Very rough so that it really makes a mess of things. Then you get progressively softer as you sand away the damage you did with the 50 or 100 grit. Whole process should take hours. But #1 you seem to have figured out an alternative #2 I am not speaking from experience, but rather a tutorial. So, you have to tell us. What is this paste you found to clear out the resin?

Wouaaahh I am not sure about that... Because trying with a 50 grit will be so much a pain to improve later on... Knowing that the surface was almost perfect after removing the casing. So I am not sure that going backward with a 50 grits will help but maybe... I wanted to remove this foggy aspect from the side, where the casing was, the plasticard lets some really fine particules, maybe I removed it before the resin was completely set so I deformed the microstructure to some locations or simply the plasticard got some chemical reactions with the resin. Nevertheless I was quite surprised and happy after trying with the dremmel. I will send a picture tonight about the paste I used, for the moment I can say that it was red and kind of sandy...

 

[boubi]

Here I found some stuff on internet, I believe that the red paste was something like this and the buffing wheel was made of fiber like this one below:

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[boubi]

Librarian finally finished! here the picture and voting link:
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Then Over the weekend I wanted to finish a mini in one go, first airbrush then brush, 90% cover with airbrush then final touch with brush, quite effective, here the result:
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And that's it for the week end, need to finish my captain base this week!

 

[Zab]

Very nice on both!

 

[Digganob]

Fantastic stuff on both accounts man. Great job.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

Love your colorful rock bases.

 

[Meph]

I suddenly have the urge to make a submerged marine wading through a school of fish... That water effect looks awesome...

 

[KruleBear]

Very nice. When you go for speed with the air brush how do you handle the colr? I.e. mixing and cleaning between colors.

 

[boubi]

Thank you everybody!

Very nice. When you go for speed with the air brush how do you handle the colr? I.e. mixing and cleaning between colors.

First I am using a mix of Vallejo airbrush thinner, water and Tamiya airbrush cleaner or Mr Hobby thinner (less than 10%). With this mix the paint stay fluid in the airbrush... Then I pour few drops of this mix in the cup, then I use an old brush to take some color from GW pots or simply pour a drop or two from vallejo bottles, then with the brush I stir and mix the paint directly in the cup, I know if the consistency is good when I remove the excess of the paint form the brush on a piece of towel, too liquid it will flow on the piece of tissue, too thick it will stay. It should be in between
When done with that color, if I still have in the cup I remove the excess by throwing it in a wasting pot. And clean the cup quickly with a plastic dropper (pipette) and do it 2 or 3 times, it takes less than 30sec. Then blow some air from the airbrush until it is clear, quickly clean the tip of the airbrush (nozzle and needle) with a brush damped in my thinner mix (less than 10sec).
At the end of my session, I clean the airbrush completely removing needle and nozzle and using small airbrush cleaning brushes and nozzle cleaning tools. After 10 sessions I use a ultra sound cleaning machine.

With this technique I can use more than 20 different colors in less than one hour without having to clean the airbrush in between and without clogging it, using a 0.2 needle airbrush.

Hoping that it will help!

 

[AndyG]

Very nice work there Boubi I like it when you can blast out a mini to a good standard in a short time it gets the creative juices flowing.

By by the way Boubi I always meant to ask what is your work in China?

 

[boubi]

Very nice work there Boubi I like it when you can blast out a mini to a good standard in a short time it gets the creative juices flowing.

By by the way Boubi I always meant to ask what is your work in China?

Yes, that's why I often look in my Reaper Bones first Kickstarter box to find some mini which I can finish over the week end or for some experiments! That's why i bought them and I am really happy I did! Rackham mini are requiring more attentions

I am working in China since 10 years, actually I did almost all my "short" career here... I started as a process engineer in a MCB factory, then in a transformer factory. After that I moved near Shanghai in Zhejiang province where I was Technical adviser of the GM for a speaker factory and then R&D manager for a lighting company... Since then I am working in lighting, specialized in LED lighting as product manager and R&D manager developing LED fixtures for a high end professional brand. Now I recently moved back in Guangdong province in Dongguan city (south of China close to Hong Kong). China is my working country things are so fast, so exciting, everyday new problems and new solutions... Things happening on a hourly basis!
It can be tiring but quite exciting... I also had job opportunity I could not even think about if I would have stayed in France!

 

[KruleBear]

Thanks Boubi, the spped of the color turn around is impressive. I may need to try this on some of my Bones minis.

 

[BloodFather of Kharnath]

My youngest sister was adopted from China. Her orphanage was in that province. She was left at an electricity plant in that city you mention.

 

[boubi]

Thanks Boubi, the spped of the color turn around is impressive. I may need to try this on some of my Bones minis.

Yes Bones is perfect for this type of exercise. I think it is all based on the thinner mix I used. The addition of this 10% enamel paint thinner is the stuff that avoid the paint to stick to the needle and continue to flow. Also many people say don't mix in the cup directly but for me so far I never had issues with it, but always put the thinner first then the paint.

My youngest sister was adopted from China. Her orphanage was in that province. She was left at an electricity plant in that city you mention.

It is quite rare for China to have adopted children... The government is not really helping it so it is really hard to adopt Chinese children. There are lots of orphans, especially with the one children policy many lost people abandon their kids to avoid to declare them and pay the fine. This is changing now but was still the case few years ago.

 

[AndyG]

Sounds a cool job! I was considering moving to HK a couple of years back but got comfortable were I am your making me regret it now!

Its strange when I chat to people in the hobby there seems to be three main careers that people have


1 scientist/engineer/high end programmer

2 graphic artist

3 armed forces/civilian contractor for armed forces

I know there's exceptions but a sizeable majority fit into these categories, I wonder why?

 

[Zab]

My half baked theories:

1 scientist/engineer/high end programmer - dying to do something creative

2 graphic artist - can't hold the creative in

3 armed forces/civilian contractor for armed forces - need to impose a sense of control over something given the danger and random nature of violence and loss inherent in their fields

ALL: Instant gratification!!!

 

[Meph]

Maybe other professions are just bullied out of their hobbies easier by their partners? and these three can more easily defend it?

-Scientist/engineer/programmer: everybody's happy he's doing something analogue

-Graphic Artists: I'm creative, I shall sing you the song of my people!

-Armed focres: it's indoors, close to family, little risk of injury