Famine: The 3rd Horseman; Apocalypse showdown at MAC

When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come and see!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"

And amidst the chaos, among the apocalypse, came a black figure, with flesh decayed, teeth bared from hunger - Famine steps out into the world -

Right, time for me to explain a little bit about this guy,
There are actually 5 layers of paints, and I will go by the order - Black, Flash, Dark grey, Purple and dark green. I had to be careful not to spray at one area for too long as I wanted shadings.
The face was improvised by dropping a glob of hull red with mix with some brighter red to simulate dried blood. The glop was dropped and scrapped away with a hobby knife to simulate dried blood on his mouth, in the sense that he's so hungry, he's been eating stuffs raw and alive.
The Shield was made as a concept of external accessories so painted different and the Victim is painted gold as part of a decoration. The Victim is weathered with the use of MIG Natural Wash and very thin semi-gloss black.



The build was very enjoyable. I made a full account of the W.I.P in the previous posts and you are welcome to look over at them if you are curious about how well the kit goes together. Actually, let me make a list here for the Work in Progress posts -

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 

Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9 

I guess that's all there is to this baby.

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Apocalypse at MAC: 3rd Horseman Famine WIP 9

Right, Time for a small update on the famine ..... first of all, I did this ..

I will not put in the little blue and red armor pieces to make it more slimmer and due to that, there is a considerable sized gap between the waist and the little thingy that goes in beneath the torso... so I had to improvise to get rid of that gap


And I don''t know, I just felt like putting that on and I put that on the arm gun


And the little spiky thingy that comes out on the shoulder-blades ( anatomy term) will be positioned like so ... I like it that way as it seems like two horns sticking out


as you can see from this photo - 



The pole-arm blade are too bare and looking so hideous so I had to improvise ... so ... I had to do this -

A little bit of platings here and there to bulk up the blades ... and after doing that, I thought those middle parts so ugly.. so i had to improvise again ..
SO i put another layer of plating like so ...

That put up a considerable bulk on the pole-arm blades and I am more then happy to get that kind of bulk ...
BY THE WAY, THAT IS NOT FINISHED YET ....

I was happy with that blade so I moved on ...... TO THE SHILED
i have been having that idea for some time and I felt like really really implementing that ...
So off to my spare box, I found something and I did something like so


of cos, once cut, the front part of the guns had gaping holes and the barrel is not opened so I had to do this -


Happy with that and kept building which is followed by sticking those parts on the shield and putting a piece of rod behind them


Again, I had to search into my spare box and I found a HG sentinal Gundam Corefighter and more then delighted, I quickly scavenged it, leading to this -


Now that guns had vents and I was kinda happy with the details I got ...

This could be the last update as I plan to paint it during the next 4 days... Have to rush it to make the EU-GC on time ... I hope I do..

Thanks for looking ... Stay Tuned for More

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Apocalypse at MAC: 3rd Horseman Famine WIP 8

Hello Dear readers ..... 
Here is some smalll itty bitty update to the famine .. very very small update, I didn't do much as I was having a block ( a modeler's nemesis) ...

Anyway .... the first thing about this update is the little strips I put on the Biceps .. as you can see from the photo


both to the front and back of the Biceps of cos ... thinking of putting something on the side of the biceps .. but I'm not sure ....

The 2nd thing is, I made a tongue...


And I made another mouth.... this one, being opened ...


and combined them together to get this -

A little bit bizarre but love it ..

All in all, the thighs look like this -


ok.. for the other part of this update , I wanted to show some decoration I put on the shield ... and I wanted to show you step by step how I did it but IF I do that, that would be a massive amount of pictures so.. I will just skip that and will just show you the first concept and the current progress ...

right.. the concept was to put a sculpture of a famished victim on the shield , as you all know this is Famine and I had to do a little research to see how actual famished victims look like ,.. and gosh... it wasn't a easy job researching about it .. just ...''sigh'' .. ( I thought to myself that time, maybe I shouldn't do this concept you know.. ) ... anyway ...

I did an initial sketch and double-taped it on a large piece of pla-plate -

(do forgive the face... I just sketch a cheek bone line to see how it is .. hehe)

And (skipping my steps) I am currently at this stage now ..

The thing that is bugging me right now is that the sculpture of the famished victim is flat and not actually 3D so I can't decide if I should just keep it like this or make it more 3D... still debating ...

That's it for today's update..Thanks for reading ... Stay Tuned for more ....

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Apocalypse at MAC: 3rd Horseman Famine WIP 7

A very very very small update to the Famine, you guys .. - 


right.. the first thing I did was extended the neck by 1 mm and put in a plate in the front of the neck for integrity - 


After that ... did something on the face plate ... I have to say.. I really really really love my own work on this ... 
Face front view - 


Face side view - As you can see, I also extended the chin 


After that, I put those little thingy on the top of the gun just for details and cosmetic purposes ..


also put some rods on the bottom of the barrel - 


And I also did some touch up on the chest mouth piece ... 
See those diagonal plates ?? yep.. I put them on top of the mouth as there was a ugly gap ... 
 

And as you can see from this photos - 

there is a ugly gap between the right and left jaw lines ..... I have been scratching my head on how to fix that and after searching my trash/spare box ... did something like so ------ 



kinda neat... I was thinking of just using some plate to make a boxy feel to it .. but glad i for that piece of curvy thingy .. 

And I put in some more teeth on the thigh ... Complete with gum line ... it feels more natural to me ..


Alright, that;s it for now.. hope you guys like it ... pls stay tuned.... thank you

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Apocalypse at MAC: 3rd Horseman Famine WIP 6

Alright guys ... as promised, here is a small update I did on the famine ...

I was kinda losing my gunpla mojo in the past few days ... but since the EUGC is getting near... I got my mojo back again.. and here I am, working again.. :P

alright... on to the update ...

right, The first thing I did was I cut off those little things on the cheek...

I had to do it cos I had to prepare the mouth for my forthcoming works on the face .... more teeth.. more fearsome.. haha

oh, speaking of teeth.... I made a new set of mouth ...


I made the upper teeth first and then the lower teeth


and I put that mouth on the shoulder like so ..

after that, I moved on to the Gun that I recently just got an idea how to do so...
and here it is .. -

obviously, judging from this pic, you can see that the barrel is foldable.. just like the orginal sword of the Astrea ..

and I bulk up the barrel .. make it '''barrels '' as you can see... and glued some stuffs here and there ...
And I made those two plates as you can see in the photos ..


The purpose of those plates can be seen from this photo

I was inspired to do this by some pre-made weapon I see on the NET... I cannot remember which though ...

and some more angle shot of the gun




Right, that's it for this update ... Stay Tuned for more

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Apocalypse at MAC: 3rd Horseman Famine WIP 5

Alright guys ... some minor mods on the Famine..... geez.. this baby is draining every bit of brain power I have... whew ...

anyway.. first thing I did is this ...



I told you this weapon is not finished yet ... and thinking of putting something in... THIS is what I'm talking about...

And I did some thing on the chest teeth.... I was planning to make it 3D.. but I couldn't figure out what do to.. so I just did this ... you could say this is just basic ''girder'' system for the 3D teeth ...



And I put in some rod to simulates the ribs line showing on a victim of famine .. u know

Left -


right -


They are not showing but I like them.... ok,, moving on...

did some work on the feet... first of all cut those parts ..


and applied them on the feet like so ...


and closed those gaping holes and tada ...


I love it ... obviously, it is based on the DSHC but i did come up with a shape unique to my own ... ( I think )

moving on.. cut those little plates ...

and reinforced the high heel


Not finished yet ... will keep you guys updated...

Stay Tune for more ... Thanks

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