Thunderhawk Drop Shop Complete

All right. Been gone a while, lotsa things going on in my life keeping me away from the bench. I took a second job teaching web design and development and I’ve never taught (professionally) so I’ve been teaching myself how to teach (head spinning yet?). I did lie a little though, I Wasn’t completely idle. Although I didn’t spend much time at my modeling/painting bench, the time spent there was doing something special for a friend.

My best friends brother has retired after 22+ years in the Marines so my friend acquired a Thunderhawk and asked me to paint it for them. It is now finished and I can give it back so it can be presented to the retired Marine by Christmas (maybe even Thanksgiving). It was an interesting challenge painting something this large but I learned a lot and these lessons can and will be applied when I tackle the blasta bomma.

Without further delay, the T-hawk…

The acquisition was of a less than perfect casting so there were many issues and small details that are gone, this is the reason why I didn’t absolutley kill every single detail on this. We talked about it and we were both fine with a very nice tabletop quality job.

I do have one other non-orky project in the pipeline but at least it will have some green. I’ll be flip flopping between this and picking back up on a bunch of projects I had going for the last year or so and need completing (yes, like the bomma).

It’s good to be back.

Later!