WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度二十三

White metal part, I wanted to sand it a little before any filling.

Close-up before the sanding.


After sanding and close-up, as you see there are a lot of holes.



I filled the entire blade with CA+talc.


And it is roughly sanded down.


In the Factory book there is an interview with Tani and Ikushima where they discussed about the work process of implanting details on the Terror Mirage. These details on the shield are so beautifully implanted, I do not want to scribe a line in between them, that would be like removing the efforts the sculptor put into it.


Instead, I only cleaned it up a little.


Started priming with the PS290!


I took this from Travolta's SR1 WIP, covered the pins with tape.


My DIY painting stick stand.


I'm very pleased with the result the PS290 gave, in this picture the smoother area are sanded with #800 paper and primed with 1000 primer. Compare it to the inside of the details where I didn't sand. The smooth spots are similar to the last primer I put on the Gastness. This time there is no crazy scratch marks by #400 paper, so I don't need to sand these spots before the base color.



This part here is where I sanded with #400 paper, it has a lot of peels, and some bubbles I didn't cover.
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Imperfect spots here and there.

WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度二十二

The commonly seen arms line and silhouette. 


Arms on Takeya's


The lines and expression changed due to a slight change in angle.


I took better pictures of the elbow mod.


Did some cleaning.

WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度二十一

The mold lines(with step!) are right on top of the edge on these lower arm parts.


Along with wavy lines and air bubbles.


In the case of wanting to keep the thickness of the edges. I built up the thickness with CA glue+talc before the sanding.


Result: straight lines and edges with the desired thickness.


Also sanded and cleared up the inside.

WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度二十

There was a tiny step from the parting line on the sides of the waist.
I filled the difference with CA+talc and sanded.
Instead of scribing lines, I sharpen the steps between the details just a little bit, so I could draw out those lines after applying the main color in controlled thin coats.


I used a pair of tweezers to hold the sandpaper in such a way, to smooth out these hard to reach areas.
(Turned out I prefer using tweezers, for better control)

WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度十九

Color scheme.
The bigger squares are the colors that I eye ball -ed. While the smaller squares show the colors from PS dropper.
The dropped ones are either brighter or darker than the ones I eye ball -ed.
Take the red on the round thingy on the shoulder, for instance, because of the 3 shades, it appeared brighter to the eyes. I guess I will go for the one that feels right.
The eyes have no red but a dull orange and yellow. Sword guards are actually deep purple.


See the shadow on the lower edge suggested the surface is curved inward at the very edge.
The concern is that if the finish is semi-gloss or gloss, the light reflected is going to curve accordingly, and it won't be pretty. Escpecially this surface would be facing at 45 degree toward the ceiling
These parts are the ankle guards


Fixed, by filling CA+baby powder and carefully sanded.


Everything on the legs is ready for priming.

WSC Vatshu The Black Knight 進度十八

This part here is the back of the leg. There is an obvious deformed line.


I chiseled it out according to the red line, keeping one of the sides straight.



I stuffed the red area with epoxy, smoothed it out and then slightly cut a straight line by tracing a blade on the straight side of the line.