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My Paint Techniques - Glazing Option 2
You can use Sandable Filler Primer in place of glaze. You can use both, one first, or the other.

My Paint Techniques - Selecting Sandpaper

Continuing my series on painting. Selecting a quality paper.

Venom Symbiote forming Venom's Skull
This is a 3D print of Venom's skull found on Thingiverse.com. The skull is painted in acrylic and the base in high gloss enamel. The tongue is not painted and printed in pink plastic. The base is lined in cork.

My Paint Techniques - Glazing Part 1
Following along on my how I paint series. Glazing is a well known technique for filling tiny imperfections in the surface of your piece. You can use this on EVA foam and other materials as well. Remember your mask!

My paint techniques - Getting started
Someone asked me to explain how I paint and make things. I don't get asked that often and I'm really excited to share how I paint. Let's get Bob Ross up in this! Safety first.

Some pics of my Star-Lord’s helm.
It is a respirator base mask as the means to wear it. Magnetic clasps that hold the back closed. The hoses are shielding from an HDMI cable painted silver and the screen is clay molding wire. Model from MyMiniFactory.

My R4 Astromech droid (R2-D2) with real binary droid speak!

The natural language returned is converted into pronounced syllables and converted to phonemes. Each phoneme is mapped to a frequency that is beeped back through the Windows Beep API.

My 3D print of Do3D.com’s Damaged Nano Gauntlet. Meant to look surging with energy. Printed in clear and lit from inside. The fake plasma energy is made with EL wire coated in clear PLA. Each Infinity Stone is dyed PLA with an LED inside.

Had this wig at home and some anime unboxing to do - the moment I saw the cap I knew it was calling for a Misa-inspired look!

This is a 3D print of Star-Lord’s helm with some custom embellishments. It has a respirator base mask as the means to wear it and magnetic clasps that hold the back on. The hoses are the shielding from an HDMI cable and the screen is clay molding wire.