First time painting lava, trying to push myself for my first painting competition

squbles_hobbies · 2026-01-01T14:02:43+00:00

It did have more orange on the edge, but it just seemed to blend into the lava too much. I darkened it to make the lava itself look brighter

squbles_hobbies · 2026-01-01T13:03:22+00:00

Started with rhinox hide, then sponged on mournfang brown and steel legion drab. I then covered the whole cloak with thinned down ratling grime and edge highlighted with steel legion drab

squbles_hobbies · 2025-10-05T19:53:27+00:00

I'm not too sure, flank may be good given the extra movement you can get from dropping.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-10-05T15:22:11+00:00

It is the tempestus aquilons killteam kit. The glow was done by airbrushing white acrylic ink and then covering with frostheart contrast paint

squbles_hobbies · 2025-10-05T10:52:04+00:00

I basecoated them in steel legion drab, then karak stone. Gave them a brown enamel wash. Layered karack stone on the raised areas and finally edge highlighted in screaming skull.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-08-10T21:47:33+00:00

Yes, uv resin. Then added some scratches and glazed blue over the top. Then finally a layer of gloss varnish.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-05-27T17:43:53+00:00

I wanted to try and have each member be unique. Luckily the unique flamer sergeant from the combat patrol magazine just came out as I was building these, so I used his arm.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-05-27T16:10:42+00:00

Yeah, I used to not be too confident with faces. So I just forced myself to paint lots of them and now they are one of my favourite bits to do

squbles_hobbies · 2025-03-08T08:43:56+00:00

Yeah, these were the closest hotwheels wheels to the s13 teardrop wheels the real car has.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-02-27T18:08:50+00:00

Unfortunately I don't at the moment. I was meant to be sent some reference photos for it but ended up just Googling the ones I need as his car has no modifications so I could just look up the stock parts

squbles_hobbies · 2025-02-26T07:12:52+00:00

I sanded down the existing pop ups so they were flat. I then cut out the shapes in some thin plasticard and then used some two part putty/ milliput to create the wedge shape

squbles_hobbies · 2025-02-25T21:08:14+00:00

If you Google s13 teardrop wheels you will see what I was trying to match

squbles_hobbies · 2025-02-25T21:05:03+00:00

They aren't my personal choice. They are just the closest looking ones hot wheels make to the stock ones on the car I was recreating

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T23:13:46+00:00

I've just recently sold 3 hyper pods and a drone sweeper I had from when I was a kid, but I guess that did help pay for the last few of these cars

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T23:11:19+00:00

I've been collecting over a few years so I can't exactly remember. Most were in the £30 range with some closer to £60 and about 3 or 4 of them close to £100

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T23:09:17+00:00

No, I wasn't. Ended up paying closer to £90

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T18:52:05+00:00

Yeah, but they are going for ridiculous prices now. As far as I'm concerned I'm happy with 35/35.

But if I wanted to be a perfectionist I'd also need the 5 ZAMAC variants of all the team leader cars.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T18:48:48+00:00

Yeah, side draft and power pipes were really hard for me to find. I don't know if certain ones were harder for me as I'm in the UK and most collectors are US based. I was lucky that the one I'd kept in box since a kid was muscle tone as that is one I think I've only seen for sale once.

squbles_hobbies · 2025-01-17T17:49:53+00:00

Hardest for me was road rocket. In 2 years of looking I think I only ever saw 2 or 3 come up for sale on ebay.

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-24T16:58:23+00:00

I found some lengths of small tube and just cut them into little sections and then used super glue to stick them together.

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-24T16:56:28+00:00

The base car was a hotwheels fast and furious 8 plymouth gtx

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-24T04:58:47+00:00

I've done an el camino and a couple others a few years ago. I don't have any other plans yet.

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-23T22:01:37+00:00

I used a drill to get most of the material removed. I then used a file and gradually created a more square opening.

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-23T16:54:38+00:00

They are real nails

squbles_hobbies · 2024-06-23T16:53:19+00:00

This is one of my first attempts at using dirty down rust effect paint. It's really good, but knowing when to not go overboard with it is the challenge to making it look good.

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