SilentSurfer's Laboratory: Come up to the Lab & See What's on the Slab.

[Matt13]

I had no idea it was your paint apps on this Nathan but when I saw it I just thought it was your work! Great job!

 

[Reinhardt]

Wow, that looks awesome. If I was into GI Joe, this would be a no-brainer purchase for me.

 

[die]

Woah! That Viper is seriously incredible. That's gotta be the nicest in the Joe line so far. I'd love to see a Snow Serpent get this treatment sometime down the line.

Excellent work on that Joker head too!

 

[SilentSurfer]

Thanks a lot guys. He was fun to work on, trying to color match the helmet paint to the uniform and all, plus I got to use my old model kit skills to assemble the helmet and hide the seams. Lots of different elements in this.

I'm really glad, as I'm sure Sideshow is, that he seems to be a big hit.

 

[Dark_Spidey]

Wow, this used to be my favorite action figure when I was a kid and even though I'm not into GI Joe anymore, I think I might just grab it!

Awesome work, Nathan!

 

[galactiboy]

Great work on the Viper... looks like an awesome figure, and probably a fun one to do

 

[SilentSurfer]

COOOOBRAAAA!

 

[SilentSurfer]

Just wrapped this up yesterday. P2 Elder will get some paint love after an awesome new Sideshow Sta Wars project.

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Okay, here you go.

I hated the articulation joint on the Pred bodies, so I sculpted it over.

I gave this one the dread treatment. Still a lot of blue showing, but much grayer with black spots now. If all the dreads were easily removable, I would have done them right, but this is still an improvement over blue rubber.

Yes, the head is fully repainted, even the tattoos.

 

[small_studios]

How sturdy are your paint jobs on the bodies?

 

[mmurrer]

That Elder looks fantastic. Great work!

 

[SilentSurfer]

Well, I'm using Army Painter as a clear primer and sealer before glossing with Future Shine. That's about as durable as it gets without using China-grade, illegal paints.

I'm really not the one to ask though, since I don't usually keep the Preds I paint. The couple I've done for myself get posed once and left alone. I'd handle them more carefully than the average collector might anyway. Model kits from the good 'ol day were usually fragile, and I treat everything with my paint on it like a model kit.

 

[Agent47]

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Major improvement, man.

 

[Buttmunch]

Fantastic work on the Viper! One of Sideshows best looking figures, and in a major part because of you

And that Elder is nothing short of mindblowing. I'm surprised you aren't blind yet from doing all of those tiny details on the face alone!

 

[SilentSurfer]

Oh, I'm getting there. I'll probably be finding an optometrist in the next couple years. Thanks, Brant.

Thank you also, Charles.

 

[Imaresqd1]

Amazing work, how do you make the eyes so glossy?

 

[SilentSurfer]

I usually use Model Master Gloss, but in the case of the Elder, I just airbrushed Future Shine into the eye sockets a few coats.

 

[Dark_Spidey]

You're truly the king of Predator repaints, Nathan! Beautiful paintjob

 

[SilentSurfer]

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Mmhmm!

 

[Buttmunch]

Ooooo. Zartan is yours too huh? Any chance of a blue Christmas?

 

[SilentSurfer]

Some of my own pics of the Viper project.

My original scratch weathering was done with 'less is more' in mind since I wasn't sure how much Sideshow would want. They later added more which I think looks even better, but here's what they looked like before.

I love this RoboCop detail. Notice the subtle heated titanium shades I put into it?

The lenses were left flat black because the production version are going to have tinted clear lenses anyway.

I swear there's a guy at Sideshow that looks just like this.

OMG, he's got no ears!

Three heads are better than one for China to reproduce:

The Bushmaster:

Clean boots: