Pizza VK78 Commando

[CrimsonViper97]

Amazing. So happy to see you finally get results on this.

 

[tahu505]

Amazing. So happy to see you finally get results on this.

Speaking of results, here's the results from last night's dips!

The bottom section of the shroud will be covered by the foregrip that slides over it. I plan to dip the foregrip in two halves, so I've taped off half of it.

 

[tahu505]

Half of the foregrip dipped. That's going to be all for tonight since it was arm day at the gym.

 

[tahu505]

Before I taped up the other half of the foregrip, I wanted to clear coat the hydrodip to make sure it does not get damaged by the masking tape. But before I clear coat, I need to do touch ups by hand.

I mixed too much yellow paint, so I went ahead and did the yellow touch ups on the other dipped parts.

3 layers of gloss clear coat on half of the foregrip.

Once the clear coat was dry, I taped up the clear coat, and dipped the other half. While waiting for the rinse to dry on the dip, I wet sanded off the failed dips from the parts I want to redo.

The two parts I want to redo got recoated in hydrographic paint.

While the hydrographic paint was drying, I set up the dip for one of the main bodies. These are going to be the largest and most difficult dips. Luckily a good section of them will get painted gunmetal later.

When setting up this dip, the film took up most of my large bin.

Dip results. Masking tape was put over the magnet slots since that part will be covered up later and the tape will create a smooth surface, reducing the amount of pockets that can create air bubbles or tears in the dip.

 

[EchoCosplay]

I really love that the dip film laid out in the bin just looks like a rectangular pizza in a box, lol.

I cannot wait to see the completed project; it's going to be so fun! And I love that you're sharing all your attempts so that people can see the challenges you faced with it.

 

[tahu505]

And I love that you're sharing all your attempts so that people can see the challenges you faced with it.

I firmly believe in showing the ups and downs of a project. Even when stuff goes wrong, I think it's important to show how to overcome it.

At this rate I should have extra hydrodip film since I have 3 dips left to do. I'll likely make a stand alone hydrodiping tutorial, but on prints with less sharp edges than the commando, since that makes the dips more difficult.

 

[EchoCosplay]

I firmly believe in showing the ups and downs of a project. Even when stuff goes wrong, I think it's important to show how to overcome it.

At this rate I should have extra hydrodip film since I have 3 dips left to do. I'll likely make a stand alone hydrodiping tutorial, but on prints with less sharp edges than the commando, since that makes the dips more difficult.

I love that too! So many people only show the "perfect" parts of their builds, and I've heard of so many new cosplayers who get discouraged when their results don't turn out perfect right away. Showing the failures and the testing and the whole process is so important!

That's awesome! I don't know if I will ever hydrodip anything but I am excited to see your full tutorial.

 

[Garthok2962]

next plan should be to make it edible lmao

 

[tahu505]

next plan should be to make it edible lmao

My next plan is to make it smell like pizza lol

 

[Garthok2962]

My next plan is to make it smell like pizza lol

Amazing

 

[tahu505]

Got the last parts hydrodipped!

I then did the touch ups by hand. The parts were scattered around the crafting room and I was up until around midnight.

I layed out some of the parts next to each other to get an idea of how they look together.

 

[tahu505]

3 Layers of gloss clear coat have been applied to the pizza parts.

 

[tahu505]

Im going to be busy the next couple days, so small break. I did get these parts painted metallic black.

 

[tahu505]

After letting the clear coats cure I taped off sections of the main body to add the gunmetal paint.

The next day I removed the tape and did some touch ups with black acrylic paint.

I then started working on a lot of stuff at once and was a bit all over. So if this feels like a lot of jumping around, it was.

I checked to see what greebles I was missing and started printing them. While the print was going I removed the supports from these resin prints. I was waiting until now so that I had something to hold while hydrodipping them and I wanted to wait until the dip was clear coated and sealed in.

Looking at what parts I want to assemble. I decided I could put the trigger housing in. They were a tight friction fit with the clear coats and hydrodip, plus they will get epoxied together later when I join the main bodies.

I added a waterslide decal to the sights.

The missing greebles printed and I took all the greebles needing gunmetal and painted them.

Some time earlier I started resin prints for the fastener greebles. The first batch was ready to start curing after painting the other greebles.

Last task of the night was to epoxy together some smaller parts. My plan is to assemble parts in sections where they can lay flat, clear coat them, then assmeble it all together.

 

[BlazingForge]

soooo when are you making a commando out of pizza instead of a commando that looks like pizza?

 

[tahu505]

soooo when are you making a commando out of pizza instead of a commando that looks like pizza?

At this rate, that might be an easier project lmao

 

[Bloxxer]

Aaaand now I'm hungry. Anyone else craving pizza? Just me?