Fourth Crisis

I FINALLY got around to working on the fourth Crisis suit to wield the Cyclic Ion Blaster and Plasma Rifle! His weapons aren't finished, but that's alright because it won't be long before I finish them too.
The next project is my new Commander. He's going to be a Buffmander, or "Raven", and so he hasn't got a single weapon or attachment on him, however I have left his arms free just incase I should ever change my mind. Its as simple as drilling and adding magnets.

In this image he's currently got weapons from another suit equipped, just for photo purposes (as seen below). This suit, while it looks the same as the others, I did a little differently. At first, I painted up the feet, legs and thighs as normal, but instead of edge highlighting the black areas with grey, I decided to cut back on effort and dry brush. It gave the same effect, just not as prolific. After doing the lower body, I lost motivation and so it was a while before I got back to it, but when I did, I did the whole torso as one, instead of doing the front and back of the torso separately. I also did the jet packs before the arms and head, as I find the torso and jet packs to be the least motivating parts, so if I got them out of the way it would be easy street the rest of the way. I had to pin the jet packs, as when I was testing out poses with blutack, the small rods that go from the jet packs into the upper body of the model snapped off, although I kinda wanted that, as pinning is a much stronger join!

Now onto the Commander! Here's a sneak peak at what to expect. He's stuck together with blutack, which is what I do with every model I prepare before painting, so that when I do paint it, I can glue it together exactly how I want to, knowing exactly how to configure it. I put all the fins for the legs and arms from the Coldstar configuration on, as well as adding and extra fin to the head, and painstakingly cutting the fins off the Coldstar jets and slotting them nice and comfortably into the Enforcer jet packs. I did this because I wasn't happy enough with all of the attachments I could put on him. They just didn't look good enough for my liking, so I decided not to use any, and just have lots of fins or antennae instead. Lastly, I added a final fin from my Broadside kit to this model's back, as seen in the picture with me holding it. I may alter the pose a little bit, but it probably won't be a noticeable amount. The reason I did all this instead of just adding normal attachments like a normal person is because I wanted something completely different, that hadn't been done before. I wanted the model to stand out, and I'm very sure it will!