I wanted some fun little models to practice with. I found a Tamiya Velociraptor 6 pack at the local hobby shop and felt they would be a great study in detail work at 1:35 scale.

Here is how they come in the box, 2 identical trees, you can swap around arms, and legs between them to make 6 different poses on the 6 bodies.

This one was shot using Jacquard paints. I didn't use any pre-mixed colors, I wanted to work it out with primaries + tint. So Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White were all that I used. All of the colors were a tint of the primary "brown" I mixed up, and straight black base coat. Needle was used to put the drop of yellow/green into the eye, and the pupil. No stencils, just freehand with the G44, needle cap removed, and right up in it.

This one I did in a basic fade, with a little stripe/spot detail under things. Photo doesn't bring out the detail, but its there. Next one will be more of a stripe version... Trying to vary it up and develop some in-close freehand skill with the airbrush.

And for size reference, here is the model next to an airbrush, yeah, thats right, its that small!

I ended up dropping my airbrush mid run on this thing and bent the needle over 90degrees! Little work with a set of razors, and the needle is perfect again, I'd venture to say it holds super tiny detail a little better now.

Here is Velociraptor 2 of 6.

I learned a lot from the first one, this one took right at 1hr start to finish. There were no cleanings between any colors until the end when spraying white in the mouth, I cleaned the brush once to get good flow on the white. Thats what killed time during the last one, I'd get up to wash out the brush, then get a drink, sit on the couch for 10min... lol..

It was funny on the no color changes. I started with like 3 drops of paint, and when I finally when to clean for the white my cup was half full of paint from all the color mixing right in the cup. Drop of white here, drop of black, some red, more yellow etc... then I'd only end up using a drop or two of the new color, and on to mixing in some more tints.

Went with a different color scheme with this one.

And size reference again... Thats my business card in the background.

For this third one I went with a darker color scheme, same general bars and marks. Red eye this time. This one took about an hour, much like the last one.

The other side...

And a group shot so far!