Added his central bone ridge/crest and the metal copper (from the insides of a car aerial) armour plates he seems to have in lieu of the more traditional bone crest/frill around his head to cover the tops of his dredds.
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shovelchop81 wrote:Rogerbee wrote:
Funnily enough, I was advised to avoid slilcone on rubber, but, if it works for you then it works.
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WHAT? That's bonkers and really bad advice! Like I've said before silicone oil preserves rubbers and polymers/plastics, it needs to be alcohol and mineral free so not the crap people buy from automotive shops for making their dashboards and tire sidewalls shiny, that stuff contains ethanol for quick drying so it might look pretty but will do more harm than good in the long run especially in hot climates. Which is why I have always recommended airgun silicone oil which is pure and akin to putting baby lotion on dry skin. I can tell you this as a certified Harley Davidson mechanic (we use rubber 'O' rings and lines with DOT 5 brake fluid which is silicone unlike DOT 3 and 4 used by most other motorcycle and automotive companies which will literally eat off your paint so they have to use metal washers and reinforced or metal brake lines); also as a holder of a BSC(hons) having done material studies during my product design degree and further studies during my 1st year of a Beng degree in motorcycle engineering. On top of that I've been working on air guns since I was a kid and they are exactly the same, lots of rubber seals and polymer moving parts that REQUIRE silicone oil to function! Who ever told you that is obviously wrong and perhaps used the dashboard polish not knowing any better. Read my posts Roger, I told you all this on the previous page mate as well as times in the past... Sorry apparently I needed a rant and my Xanax hadn't kicked in yet!
Stryker2011 wrote:That is so cool. Ingenious using a car antenna.
Rogerbee wrote:
Funnily enough, I was advised to avoid slilcone on rubber, but, if it works for you then it works.
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Ahh, it was probably the automotive stuff that was being referred to, like Armor All. Gotcha! Sorry!
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Rogerbee wrote:
He's coming along really well now.
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Stryker2011 wrote:That’s the one thing I never got from the newer Pred movies, is why they would hunt each other... Guess they must get bored hunting species lesser than them.
Rogerbee wrote:That NECA figure looks quite good, but, their regular predators are the same size as humans. Gives you a bit more reference though.
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shovelchop81 wrote:
That's odd given all the amazing reference material they will have access too, why make such a basic error in scale? The humans should be 6" or less in that case, weird. Might explain why they seem to have gone for the wrong (in my opinion) colours for this Pred too, he's far more green in the movie with striking red accents; they can't blame that on the lighting as he was a complete CGI character unlike the FP that was sometimes CGI and sometimes an actor in a suit.
Rogerbee wrote:Looking good,
I guess the NECA might be a decent paint reference. Looks like other pics. That said, their paint on the Ultimate Gremlins is actually way off when compared to pics of the screen used ones.
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Rogerbee wrote:shovelchop81 wrote:
That's odd given all the amazing reference material they will have access too, why make such a basic error in scale? The humans should be 6" or less in that case, weird. Might explain why they seem to have gone for the wrong (in my opinion) colours for this Pred too, he's far more green in the movie with striking red accents; they can't blame that on the lighting as he was a complete CGI character unlike the FP that was sometimes CGI and sometimes an actor in a suit.
That's mainly because NECA are just doing 7" figures and not doing them to a particular scale most of the time. Their scale varies wildly. The Gremlins are about 1/4 scale and the Ash vs Evil Dead figure they did was more like 1/12. It's really weird, some are in scale and some plain aren't. It's the luck of the draw as to what you get.
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shovelchop81 wrote:
The stills do seem to have quite a degree of colour variants and the movie doesn't help with real lighting changes then compensated on the CGI model so that changes too...hell I'll just blame the CGI guys and stick with the dark green and red as that's been my plan all along and I didn't invent the colour scheme, it just seems to be the most consistent allowing for all the variables involved, hell he's invisible half the bloody time!
shovelchop81 wrote:
I thought you meant humans in the same universe/franchise/series like Dutch Shaffer or the Space Marines etc..
Stryker2011 wrote:Thanks for the explanation. It's funny, aside from them having space travel technology, and really cool weapons, it's always hard to think of them as little more than savages, but all of that would make sense. Just because they look like "animals" doesn't mean they're idiots. Ahh, the arrogance of Human thinking rears it's ugly head again.
shovelchop81 wrote:Rogerbee wrote:Looking good,
I guess the NECA might be a decent paint reference. Looks like other pics. That said, their paint on the Ultimate Gremlins is actually way off when compared to pics of the screen used ones.
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The stills do seem to have quite a degree of colour variants and the movie doesn't help with real lighting changes then compensated on the CGI model so that changes too...hell I'll just blame the CGI guys and stick with the dark green and red as that's been my plan all along and I didn't invent the colour scheme, it just seems to be the most consistent allowing for all the variables involved, hell he's invisible half the bloody time!
Rogerbee wrote:
Looking good so far!
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Rogerbee wrote:
Coming along!
I will still seal my Gremlin with polyurethane as I want to paint on top of it with acrylics in order to redo his eyes and touch up other areas.
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Rogerbee wrote:
Chris said he used it and one of the team from Cabin Fever 3 used it on their display pieces, so it should be ok.
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Rogerbee wrote:
Coming along nicely!
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