Thinking back on it, doing vinyl kits from Horizon was a large part of my learning process, but I shudder every time I think about it. Prep work on these early vinyl kits was horrendous. You start of having to use a hair dryer to heat the vinyl, then get an Xacto knife and trim away any flash while its still warm. If it cooled too much, it'd be near impossible to move the blade through, and inevitably would lead to a stabbed appendage. From there, you test fit the poor-fitting pieces, then heat them BACK up to form them to their proper shape and QUICKLY glue them together in a way that leaves the least amount of gap (assuming you didn't mess up the first step where you trimmed all the flash off). Then it was on to putty filling the gaps, but vinyl is SO smooth that you can't get the putty to lay down proper, so you have to wait a day for the putty to dry, then sand until your hands are raw. The end result was always a mediocre sculpted kit with just barely passable detail, but at least YOU knew how much work you put into it.
Then it was time to paint it.
Sheesh. No wonder I sold off all my unbuilt Horizon kits a few months ago to make room for resin and styrene.
Anyways, I wanted to do something to differentiate the yellows on the suit. This was obviously based of the Claremont run of X-Men, where basically everyone was just yellow and blue. The metallic parts of his outfit were painted silver, then gone over with clear yellow to break some of that monotony over. He stays propped up now as I'm not entirely sure why he's decided to lean over so far in the pose, maybe he's doing the electric slide.
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