Fighting Words

Fighting Words

Active verbs to use in a fight scene or an otherwise violent encounter, color-coded by severity (with red as most intense and purple as most mild), and categorized by type of fight.

How the hell do you get so precise with got glue?

You mean hot glue?

I’ve had about 7 years of experience using hot glue as a detailing tool, so thats one thing. 

Honestly I could write a book of tricks with hot glue. 

But the key things Ive learned are…

-Let your gun sit for about 40 minutes before use. GET THAT SHIT HOT, the hotter the gun, the smoother and less clumpy the glue. 

-METAL NOZZLES ONLY. Like this:

NONE OF THAT PLASTIC CONE OF SAFETY BULLSHIT

CRAP.- Get gluesticks that are REALLY long. Dont get the mini shorts unless you have too. It saves you from getting that little gap of time where the glue stick cant be pushed anymore, and ends up pumping out dollops of a mess.  AND ALWAYS have one on hand, so when that does happens you can immediately push it along. 

-IGNORE THE LITTLE STRINGIE THINGS. Ignore them. Do all your detailing, riding, rivets, what have you. Let the strings happen. They will happen, let them. When your done and it all dries, just dab some duck tape or roll your hand or a brush over the detailing and pick up all the strings. They will just snap off. 

-WHEN YOU FUCK UP KEEP GOING. Line got too fat? Leaked over the edge? JUST KEEP GOING! Nothing you can do when the glue is still hot. Just let it dry. Honestly. The whole of your line or detail is more important than the fuck up. AND AFTER IT DRIES, just use an Xacto to go back and cut off the fuck up. Either cut it down to size or cut it off completely and redo that little area. 

-To make your edges look welded instead of all puffy or raised, while your glue is still hot take another stick and smear it through against the creases. Do another line and smear again. Bam, glued together and when its painted it looks like welded armor. 

-Faster is better. Taking your time means your squeezing slower, so the glue comes out slower. It dries pretty fast on itself, so it clumps as it goes down like that, making that rainwater effect. If you want smooth raising lines you gotta go fast! GO FAST! My trick is to lay down a scrap piece of cardboard or foam and squeeze out some practice lines like you would a paintbrush. Swipe a few time on the cardboard, swipe the armor. Back and forth, back and forth. It keeps the glue flowin. 

HAPPY HOT GLUING! 

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Apologies in advance for any spelling errors, I’ll fix stuff in the morning…too tired now…

oh hey it’s a tutorial on glowing stuff I guess…I already made one 2 years ago but I don’t make things glow like that any more :|

…also when I’m manually doing colours I pick things like this as if I was shading.

there’s a lot more I could put in as well, but it really varies on the picture how I do the glow…it is usually just fiddling around with styles and colours though.

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