Hero Of the Month pt 2

This week has moved slowly With progress, but that is the price to pay for what I decided to do.

I have continued on with the Crystals that I was playing with if you missed it you can find it here.The reason I said at the start of this the progress moved Slowly is because I decided to airbrush the crystal in its self as in the painting it did not take to much time but the masking of it all took longer then I would of liked.

So as you can see from my playing I had the idea of what I would like to do but without that magic thing contrast. 

So now because I decided I wanted to use my Airbrush I needed to mask off Each of the Sides of the crystals and as you can see there is a lot of Sides and as I would be doing each one separately It took me a long Time.

About the masking I decided to use two things at the time the main one was a cheap roll of making tape that I stuck to my cutting mat and cut it to the size I needed. 

The second thing I used was Blue Tac with this I did have a issue because the model is metal the blue take when pushed on to hard when taken off took off the paint with it. To fix this I came up with the idea thanks to my wife and daughter.

Thanks to a cooking set my wife got for our daughter, I get my hands on a small rolling pin and with a bit of water on the top and under the blue Tac you are able to roll it in to a very thing sheet that you are able to cut and place were you need it and because its thin less chance of pulling the paint off.

A Pic of the masking in use.

And Finaly the Stage It is as of today.

I decided to keep the purple and not go with Blue to try and add some more color to the model I also plan to edge highlight with a white, purple and do a Purple and Blue Ink "wash" to soften.

Have to say I think that even though it has taken longer than I would liked I think it is worth it.

What do you all think?