Ultramarine shoulder pads

Space Marines iconic shoulder armor needed some more details and relief iconography. There are a lot of custom 3D printed upgrades for MCFarlane primaris figures – none was fitting my vision and plan… decided to go and build some from pla-plates and pla profiles – thank you GreenStuffWorld 🙂 I started with plain Ultramarines Icon,…

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The Base continues

After initial weathering, I applied UX100 from MrHobby and added some decals. Platform no 05 – why not? Then decals were sealed with same gloss varnish andAK XtremeMetal was used to paint pipes etc. Next step – washes and additional weathering!

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Funnels!

For funnels I went with different shade of Glossy/Candy Red, to add additional eyecatchers 🙂 I see a lot of Sazabis with same color everywhere – time to break the rules 🙂 This time I went with Tamiya laquers only. Silver as basecoat was applied then Clear Red from LP range. Then decals were applied.…

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Sazabi’s base painting started

I’m planning to put little Saz on an old platform – for a contrast between glossy mech and used/worn deck of landing pad.I will use ActionBase1 and some dedicated photetched parts from MadWorks. Base after Tamiya Surface Primer applied – its soo cool to look at primed parts – looking like 3D rendering… After primer…

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Decals frenzy

After few water-decals sessions I finished ”by the book” markings. With those tiny symbols Sazabi started to look like a real thing! Anyhow I wasnt fully satisfied… I NEED MORE!!! :), started with fuel containers detailing… unfortunately one of gold fragile decals was damaged… I removed it with moistered tootpick, very gently to not damage…

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