Steven Kodani

Here's my finished submission and final post!

This is Belle and Eous from Zenless Zone Zero, sculpted by Neko Figurines and printed at 1/6th scale.

High resolution photos and video can be found here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kxq9ESVSJg2P7ksC6

Full material list:

- Conjure Sculpt resin

- Conjure Standard resin

- Elegoo ABS-like resin

- Kaleido gloss black and white primers

- Kaleido paints

- Pro acryl paints

- Mindworks heavy body acrylic paints

- Liquitex ink

- Golden high flow fluorescent paints

- Kaleido gloss and matte varnish

- Vallejo matte varnish

Please comment if you have any questions, and I'll do my best to answer them!

Here's my weekly post! I'm pretty much done at this point. There are a few small things I need to touch up, and I need to get my submission photos taken.

Belle is from a game called Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ). In ZZZ, you collect characters through the "signal search" feature, which previews the rarity of the characters you get by showing glowing "B", "A", and "S" on a stack of TVs. I thought it would be cool to emulate this with the stack of TVs that Belle is standing on.

Despite some small issues, I'm really happy with how this turned out. I created some custom stencils using in-game assets. This was all done with my airbrush using Liquitex inks, Golden high-flow acrylics, and Kaleido paints.

In other news, I bought a set of Mindwork's heavy body acrylics and have been experimenting with them on the base pieces. So far, I'm really enjoying using them. Hopefully, they don't clash with the cell-shaded style I'm using for Belle and Eos, but it's not uncommon to see painted backgrounds in anime.

I also finished her shoes and repainted parts of her skirt.

This week will be more base painting and just general polishing. I'm getting close!

Belle stands on a stack of TVs as the base for my model. I thought it would be cool to add an LED backlight to them and show the "S", "A", and "B" graphics from the ZZZ signal search sequence.

My plan seemed simple:

1) Print the TV stack with clear resin.

2) Print graphics from the game onto glossy photo paper, and glue them to the back of the screen.

3) Install small LEDs on the back of each TV.

This was my first time using Anycubic High Clear resin, and it required several attempts to get a somewhat successful print. It still has some nasty layer lines that would require cleaning.

However, holding the print in my hands made me realize that the keyholes for the objects on top of the TVs are huge and consume much of the internal space. In particular, the hole that supports Belle goes right through the middle of the top TV, blocking all of the light from my LED.

I've given up on this plan for now and have decided to simply paint the graphics onto the TV screens. If I have time after I finish painting, I might revisit this.

This distracted me from making much progress on painting this week. Hopefully, I'll have more to show next week!