Spalah 1/35 Scientist SSP-99

[frank2056]

This is the second SPALAH figure I've built from their line of "STALKER" figures, "Scientist SSP-99 "Ecologist":



The vented cover for the scientist's instrument was lost at some point between printing and my getting the figure ready for paint. There were some minor print defects - a hole at the top of the figure's head and some minor delamination at the right elbow. That said... I painted - and stripped - this figure 7-8 times: I didn't get the black primer right. I didn't like the orange color. Now it's too red. How about blue? Nah,... finally yellow seemed OK. Once that problem was solved, detailed painting and shadowing went by pretty quickly:

Here he is with the resting stalker in the Jonny Quest flyer:







I used a 1/32 aircraft instrument decal for the instrument. I added red and blue marks on each side of the decal:



Jeff Fontaine sent me a Blackdog diorama base a while ago - the Cracked road with pipe base. The scale wasn't specified, but it worked well with this figure. Painting was pretty quick:





I used a mix of UV glow powders in the broken pipe:



The faceplate was painted with Vallejo color shifting paint. I found a detailed review on youtube:

I bought the Vallejo The Shifters Space Dust set on Amazon. I think it worked well - two thin layers applied with a brush to a gloss black finish and it dried quickly.

[Old Wombat]

That's an excellent build, Frank (even if it is mostly painting)!   

And no annoying flesh tones to deal with, either! 

[NARSES2]

That does look good, particularly the yellow overalls    They look well worn 

[kerick]

Great colors and nice shading! Well done!

[frank2056]

Thanks, guys!

I thought this was going to be a quick paint job without the flesh tones! I couldn't quite match the "orange" on the boxtop and every mix I tried just didn't look like any shade of orange. Yellow is usually a tough color to paint, but it worked great here. I used a black primer (shot mainly from below to get all the shadows and folds in the uniform) followed by a white primer from above. Then I sprayed a couple of thin coats of ATOM yellow, which worked great.

[Wardukw]

Yellow is a particularly different colour to weather well ..it's a PITA for covering sometimes..other times it's brilliant.
Franky mate ya did a great job with this ..in the end   
As my dad once said and I quote "We are masters of self-punishment we are son "
He couldn't be more right 😁

[frank2056]

Some of the highlights were done with an AK Interactive pen, then given a thin layer of the ATOM yellow.

[su27rules]