OK, a few more, though some of these are WIPs. Click to embiggen:
Group Shot: Shadow Hawk LAM, Wolverine, Unseen Thunderbolt (WIP), Awesome
OK, my Wolverine. First mini I tried doing after the Griffins, so still rough, but better than the last two at least. No, I didn't primer it. Yes, this was undoubtedly a rookie mistake. And, yes, I'm having issues with the white paint adhering in spots. This wasn't as pronounced, I think, on the Wolverine or the Awesome, but holy cow does it become an issue on the Shadow Hawk LAM. You can see I tried to get the sections between the panels in black to highlight some of the details better, with varying degrees of success.
And here's my box set Awesome. A bit more experimenting here, done at the same time as the WVR, with similar methods. I still don't feel this one's done, because it could use some cleanup. Less issues with wearing on the white paint here, because there's more of it.
WIP Unseen Thunderbolt repaint. Old one was a uniform tan, which is basically serving as primer at this point, and is showing that, yes, I should have been using primer from the start, and therefore was being a big dummy. I've got one box set Shadow Hawk that's less complete than this I might finish at this point, but going forward after that, I'll be primering everything before I go for this. My wife uses dark enough colors that it's not an issue for her the same way, but with the white, OMG, is it a problem not to.
Underside of the Shadow Hawk LAM. And I thought the white paint adhering to the plastic minis was bad? HAHAHAHAHA!
The grey-painted areas, I
think, are supposed to be the legs, but I'm not entirely sure. This is one of the areas it's hard to line up the sections exactly between the two minis.
Top side of the SHD LAM. The lack of blue was intentional here. I'd originally been planning to go with a paint scheme similar to the
Grumman X-29, but wanted to try to find each of the 'Mech's corresponding spots on the ASF. I don't think I was entirely successful, and it's possible they don't line up 100%, but with the wings and fins at least having the top surface white and the bottom surface blue, it's *real* easy to see where they line up when the LAM transforms into a 'Mech.
Speaking of which, front shot of the SHD LAM. The dome-like structure on the top of the ASF mode mini disappears entirely in 'Mech mode, as far as I can tell, and the section underneath becomes the 'Mech's chest. The extra-tiny LL (or AC/2) and LRM-5 appear to both increase in size, the nose forward of the canopy/head ends up on the back somehow. I can't tell if the arms are supposed to be underneath this or not, with the hands protected at the rear. There's also no obvious jump jets in 'Mech mode, at least that I could find.
Side view. Close-up on my camera is a little soft here, it looks like, but hopefully the details aren't too washed out.
Rear view. See what I mean about the fighter nose? That's definitely the top side of it we're seeing, not the underside. Very weird.
So, yeah, call this round two. Hopefully it's improved over round one, and we'll see if I can do better on round three.
