Knowing When to Stop

Morning friends and Merry Christmas!

2020, it’s been quite a year. I’m very happy to have had the opportunity to share cool things with you and to learn and grow whilst watching so many of you learn and grow too. It’s been a privilege, so thank you very much.

Here’s the final instalment of the Falke Griffon series and the perfect way to wrap it up. For this last section, I didn’t want it to be purely technical. Finishing models it not all about techniques. Plus I need to point out something very important. This is one style of finishing and I guess we could call this “open ended and experimental”. I would contrast this with my planned finishes. 

Planned finishes are obvious enough, they have an overall plan from the start and it’s usually either something we have done before and would like to replicate or we are following a guide like a recipe. These are fun too and as an example, my recent MK44 Whiteknight prototype is an example of this and it was one of the most enjoyable projects of the year for me. Nice and simple, went together like clockwork and turned out with what I find personally, a very attractive finish.

Experimental finishes like this start more with a vision and desired effect and I work through more obvious steps until reaching the appropriate timing for the experiments or additions. The MK44 AMMOknight version was like this, the concept being to see how far I could take the weathering and this Falke was an attempt to see how realistic I could make it look with the added gimmick of the blown out AG Pod. 

It was whilst working on the effects for this that I had the moment. “Linc, stop now, that’s enough!” It’s important to listen to that little voice but often very difficult to hear it over the sound of external pressures and tutorials telling us to do this and that. 

This video was filmed immediately after I heard the voice to stop. I felt this might be the best possible way to share with you how to judge this yourself by sharing in real time, what I was doing and thinking whilst at my work bench. With a planned finish it’s easy - stop at the end of your planned steps, but this one is different and special.

Perfect way to end the year and come back with brand new stuff. Water based acrylic hand brush on the MK44 Axeknight, more of an aircraft type of airbrush finish on another model I haven’t shown you yet, and then the MK44 publication will be on it’s way. 

Then a topic shift away from Ma.K. with possibly a different group build comp and MAWR, it’s going to be a very big start to 2021 for us. 

Thanks always and again, Merry Christmas and all the best for the Festive Season my friends.

Stay safe,

Linc

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