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Montana Caps

These are the 3 types of nozzles I got from ebay.
Number 1 makes a wider round mist than the default.
Number 2 makes a thin vertical, wide horizontal (like a fan).
Number 3 makes a detailed line but overspraying is a guarantee.
Got these about 2 years ago. Since it can't fit our local industrial spray cans,
I had to find a way to make it work.
Here is what I've done

How to Make a Cape for Your Scale Model


Here you will see step by step process on how I made a cape for my scale 1/144 mech. I'm planning to get the spawn look for this.

Full Article: How to Make a Cape for Your Scale Model

How to Make a Water Diorama on a Budget

As the title would have it, this water effect was achieved more or less under US$10. This is how I made the water diorama that won the BEST in CREATIVITY and MODIFICATION award in a 2008 Gundam modeling competition. Here are the steps.

Materials

  1. Styrofoam board
  2. 2 liter PET bottle (optional, for dramatic indentation on water)
  3. Clear folder (also optional for the super splash effect)
  4. Transparent Silicon (the cheapest one you can find in hardware stores)
  5. Paints/ spoon / fork
  6. Photo reference
Mark desired shape on the PET bottle.
Cut and make sure you give allowance for further cutting or fitting later
Trace the shape onto the styrofoam board, cut and make adjustments for the height of the indentation.
Paint the bottom side. I used only industrial spray cans (Pylox) for all my painting needs, yes, including my kits. Pencil the water patterns heavily so that you will have a guide later when applying the silicon
Get a scrap clear folder. Draw on paper the pattern you want for the splash. Trace and cut onto the folder. Make two of these.
Check the angle and adjust to desired effect.
Remove splash pattern. Spray on sea blue and dark green with any pattern. You may also consider adding dark blue. Be careful when applying these types of paints, they eat away the styrofoam. Allow paint to dry for two hours.
Pin the splash effect permanently.
Apply the silicon. Make sure to have your spoon and fork ready as the silicon sets in 10 minutes, more or less. Use toothpick to create the froth of the water under and outside the splash. Consider the water movement when doing your froth. For the inside of the indentation, use spoon for smooth water effect.
Nice Accident
Notice the trailing edge from the end of the indentation, the styrofoam was eaten away by the paint. I brushed (decanted sea blue) onto it, which gave it a really nice effect! First I almost panicked, but seeing the paint eating the styrofoam made me realize, “yeah, I need that effect!”
For this project, I built up the small splash for the leg of the owned union flag (lower right).

For the rest of the area of the water, I used spoon and used only short arching stroke all through out. Dry brushed the froth and the splash with quick drying enamel.
One mistake I made was applying the silicon indoors. It left me a bit nauseous. I would advice strongly that you do this in open air.
And there you have it. I know you guys can pick up on this and make way better water effect.
Credit:
http://www.carrierbuilders.net/articles/20050526_Realistic_Water/20050526_Realistic_Water.htm

Gallery here
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Owning a Cat

They say you don't own at cat, it owns you! Same is true with our cat, Whitey. Very aloof and never lets us hold or pet him. One day, I caught him off guard while he was having lunch. And you know what I did?

I OWNED HIM BIG TIME!!!
I gave him a makeover. LOL


We laughed so hard that day, we got exhausted.

Bangui Bay

I have no idea how beautiful the place is. Only my sister, my son and his cousin went to Ilocos this summer of 2009. Part of a university trip where my sister teaches. I can only tell through his eyes that it was THAT lovely a place when he came back. The rave in his stories about it. Plus of course, the souvenir pictures tells the rest.



One amazing thing about those windmills were its size. Unfathomable, says my son. And I just stare at the pictures and imagine.

I'm glad my son had this experience.
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