Scout Mech Scratchbuild Part 2 - painting and diorama base.

In this second part of the video series I finish off my mech, paint it up and add a diorama base.
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[@EURIPODES]

Really enjoying the scratch built mechs. You got me wanting to raid my nephews toy box

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers dude, hah yeah it's very easy to end up with boxes of junk ;)

[@robbough1585]

Simply sublime, you sir are an artist! Considering what this is made from, a plain mouse, your attention to detail, basing, painting and lighting, bring this to life!! This is one mouse that roars!!! Brava, keep up the excellent work.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks Rob, very kind! Yep turns out mice are fantastic sources of robot bits!

[@dozer88finn]

Great piece!! As far as the small bubbles Some swamps do bubble due to natural springs also if the Walker stepped in water it would kick bubbles. So adds some realism.😀👍

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! Haha yes, very good point! ;)

[@brouwjon]

Wow. Just wow. This is so cool!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@simpleking100]

love your work, greetings from austria

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! Greetings from the UK :)

[@nikond90ful1]

Thanks for the video.

[@Virakotxa]

What a discovery your chanel was! I'm really enjoying your content!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks for watching :)

[@ryansergeant2896]

Awesome build. Thanks for sharing

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks for watching!

[@bearshield7138]

I like the way you think

[@TIMBEAU1962]

My goodness! You are really good! I really love the model you created. The robot was great, but this walking machine that seems to be stepping out the war of the world scenery is because of its simplicity better! But the previous robot is also super! The swamp and the dirt is great. I need to learn more about the material you use. Now building for the hallway I work a robot model out of wood and eva! But if I see this.... Its hard to continue, because I know now that I started with the knowledge I new then. Now listening to you I go crazy off all the ideas and possibility you show and explain! Thank you my master.... Your humble student!

[@thedarkpower]

Hey thanks very much :) Yeah I do like weathered robots, they just look more real to me. Thanks for watching!

[@dawarrior76]

Buddy...oh my gud this thing looks soooo cool. Model is stunning...swampy base a looker...my god...very awesome...the way you explain things is sooooo clear...

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks, I appreciate it :)

[@thedarkpower]

And thanks for watching!

[@revzillo]

Awesome mech looks great

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@seangere9698]

Luke does some great dioramas. Been subbed to him for a couple of years now. A good thing for making tall grass/reeds is jute twine. You can dye it to any color you want and you can cut it to any length you want as well. You can use it to make vines, roots, trees and so on. As for the bubbles there's many ways to get rid of it. Blowtorch the lighters from the last Mech, hair dryer, heat gun. But these only work on surface bubbles. You can make a vibration table or if your wife has a foot manager you can use that to vibrate the resin and it will make the bubbles rise to the surface. It's best to make something to put over the foot massager just incase of any spillages.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks for the tips. I wanna have another go at a diorama soon so that's really useful.

[@LMB9888]

Turned out great! The brush bristles with a little paint on them was a great idea. Love the videos.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks very much, thanks for watching!

[@mikepenn8181]

Fantastic!! I liked the previous Mech build you created, Such an imaginative use of leftover household materials! This build however simple it looks, blew me away! Absolutely LOVE IT!!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks very much Mike! I'm really enjoying making cool stuff out of junk ;)

[@kurogiza]

Amazing work. Your explanation of your weathering technique is very valuable, thanks!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks very much Chris, glad it was useful!

[@asshura_gaming8085]

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@asshura_gaming8085]

@@thedarkpower I have never thought that someone can make this much cool stuff from the scratch in traditional art I mean artist make cool mech but in 3d and you made like you are doing in some 3d software but the final thing is you are really amazing I really get inspired by you and watching this video is so much satisfying

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks, I've not tried 3D but I'll have to give it a go sometime.

[@BRAD-ROTT]

Mooooore !!! ^;^

[@trevorvanzuydam8115]

awesome man, love the paint dispensor. Luke is a favourite for us to watch

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! Yeah he does some amazing stuff.

[@PacTheOne]

this is absolutely awesome dude!

[@thedarkpower]

Hey, cheers! I appreciate it :)

[@eman1978]

Very cool! very creative... nice work

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks!

[@zZ-bu1mp]

I love this

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks!

[@petjapustisek6735]

Fantastic!

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers! :)

[@timwilkinsongs]

Brilliant work sir!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@kristoferson16]

Amazing work!! Looking forward to more. You got my sub!

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks for watching!

[@buckstarchaser2376]

To de-gas your resin/modpodge, put it in a vacuum pot for a moment. This will temporarily expand the bubbles, bringing them to the top of your cup where they can pop. Then, when you return them back to normal atmospheric pressure, the visible bubbles will be pretty much gone, depending on how hard you vacuumed it.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks. Yeah i can't remember if I tried that with the clear resin here. I know I've had limited success with degassing resin in the vacuum chamber previously. Last time I tried I managed to blast resin all over the interior ;)

[@buckstarchaser2376]

@@thedarkpower Ahh yes... Vacuum draw-down control, and using a tall, straight or wide-mouthed container are important when you're turning goop into fizzy pop.

[@zsmall]

I love these mech videos you're doing! I just found your channel keep up the good work.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks! :)

[@ScratchBashing]

Very nice work!

[@thedarkpower]

Thank you! :)

[@ThornsOfOurTime]

Super cool

[@revzillo]

If you think about it the air bubbles should add to it , l'm just thinking if a robot was walking through boggy water there would be a cetain amount of bubbling due to the movement of its legs . Just a thought

[@thedarkpower]

Yep you're totally right, it just bugs me - it looks better on camera than to the eye and I want to look at it from about 3cm and still see the details ;)

[@thefatman69dude]

Gotta blow the modge podge with a straw to help get rid of bubbles. Also tooth picks work well for popping bubbles by moving the bubbles to edge of the surface and then they pop off. It takes a fuck ton of time and can be annoying. But it helps me do it.

[@thedarkpower]

Ah cool, thanks for the tip. I've seen people blow it with an airbrush before which I guess does the same thing.

[@centaur1a]

Instead of using a torch. Have you tried a heat gun or hair dryer? Also. You should try “heat shrink tubes” when soldering two wires. Just in case the wire comes in contact with a exposed wire. Just shrink the tube with a hair dryer.

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks, yeah I do use heat shrink for wiring, not sure if I showed it in the vid though. I didn't use my heat gun as it was a pretty old one so it would shoot out a load of bit's of burnt paint from where it had been used for paint stripping. Definitely worth giving it a go if I try this again though (I'll have to get a new heat gun!). Not sure if a hair dryer would be hot enough, but worth a go.

[@AndreLuiz-rq1kn]

very cool

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks!

[@ckngmad1357]

noice

[@DaedalusProps]

Bro, absolutely do more stuff like this. I love watching you make this type of shit

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers dude, I appreciate it.

[@gallowshumor1784]

Nice asf

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers!

[@celticarchie]

Another fantastic Mech! I foresee an army of mechs! :D I can just see it stalking through the swamp looking for certain green creatures in exhile! :D I was just wondering if you'd ever do a video on the materials you use and where to get them? Specifically the latex rubber for moulding, resin and the plastic-card. Whenever I do a search I end up either ordering the wrong stuff, or I get the amount confused and thing 100mm is 100 inches, or something like that. ;P

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks very much! I think I have mentioned where I get stuff before, but I generally use this rubber www.dwrplastics.com/moulding-rubber/general-purpose/silicone-moulding-rubber and this resin www.dwrplastics.com/polyurethane-casting-resin/fast-curing-resin The foam board I get from hobby craft which is a craft store in the UK.

[@tenchtrinidad4183]

God them it, its look like alien robo mecha from war of the world.!! Fuck, awsome..

[@thedarkpower]

Cheers dude!

[@JonMadsen70]

:)

[@nikos52]

Great work. Check out "Lukes Aps" on youtube for diorama technics

[@nikos52]

Also your chipping method could use an improvement. Try chipping fluid, or just sponge on top of the final color with metal, brown and or rust paint.

[@thedarkpower]

I've not tried chipping fluid, but I don't think the other methods you mention could be described as offering an 'improvement'. I've never liked the look of painting metallic colours on top of the top coat when they're supposed to be underneath. I think it's abit of a lazy approach. See my previous mech video in any case, where I use rust powders to do some of what you're describing.

[@gokhancoglu]

Very cool but leg so long

[@thedarkpower]

Thanks. Funnily enough, that was intentional ;)