Aztek Dummy Update 4/28/23 – Quark's Treasure- Part 2



It was a colorful weekโ€ฆ
painting little green men, lighting the engines
and finding the perfect body color

but not quite finished yetโ€ฆ

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29 thoughts on “Aztek Dummy Update 4/28/23 – Quark's Treasure- Part 2”

  1. Used to be they made amber LEDs that were redder than orange, definitely different from yellow. I haven't shopped for them in a while. Ask your LED board man about them.

    That thumbnail shot through the windshield is just amazing. All that work is not hidden, which is a good thing considering how relatively plain the hull is. I'd be tempted to use a light brown pin wash to emphasize the panel lines but that might be a little cartoony.

    Brilliant move with the latinum, and more is definitely merrier.

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  2. Lou+ I am finally getting around to to my flying sub kit and I was at the auto parts store auto zone and I seen there Dulpli – color rack and seen the color I was looking for school bus yellow DA1663 I didn't expect that bought it asap was looking at your video's on how you did yours to get ideas ๐Ÿ’ก love this video keep up the great work

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  3. Nice work! I was curious why don't you pin the figures down? I usually drill a small hole in the feet and base and put a 1.2mm wire in. I've had good luck doing that.

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  4. Hi Lou a great job again and i don't blame you for not painting Quarks caot it would have taken a long time how Keith did it is beyond me, if you had put orange gel behind the engines would that have given better definition ? a brilliant build yet again Lou you are a master at this painting lark

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  5. That is not bad at all. I think the late-discovery of a hole on the topside (at auction pic) is a motion-control rig mount point. Your color trials and tribulations are interesting. As a former graphic pro, you know well how hard it is to specify a color once it's out of your hands. We, out here, are stuck with whatever it is that the server farms, YouTube and our monitors do with the color you have. I see the problem as starting with your lighting (sorry, that may sound harsh, but I have few bugaboos that get to me like lighting does). You shouldn't mix LED lighting– pick one and let your camera do whatever it does to so-called balance that source. Your camera sensors don't like LEDs to start with, so there's all manner of color interpretation that it does before you see it. Plus the little camera screen and all the guts on the way, are optimized to look as good as it can to you, the viewer. What happens later can be all over the place and it doesn't care. Your eyes can handle a lot of color processing, so what looks good in front of you is no doubt just fine.
    Love the diorama– who doesn't enjoy a pile o Latanum! You worked hard on that interior lighting and the results are dazzling, even through all the above mentioned display struggles! The teeny figure work is a testament to the fine nerve control of one Lou Dalmaso! You forgot to show us what the Olsens sent you. So a non-standard video drop-in would be nice.

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  6. Now there's the wisdom of experience: Don't rush it. Rushing it has caused me much wailing and gnashing of teeth. As an aside, there sure aren't many places to sit on a Ferengi shuttle.

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  7. Ferengi rules of accusations states that you can never have enough latinum ( might have to dig out my copy sometime) and it's good to know that there's actually a orange Lou likes ๐Ÿ˜‚ knowing that i might have to dig out the ferengi marauder from the adversary set ๐Ÿค” ,as for painting quark's outfits ๐Ÿ˜ฐ nightmare even on the larger model ( i just decapated him and mounted his head on a spike ๐Ÿ˜)

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