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HMM Mirageby *AuroraLion

Artisan Crafts / Dolls, Plushies & Custom Toys / Customized Toys

Won 1st place at Tekkoshocon's 2012 Model Contest in all categories entered (people's choice, best in show, & non-Gundam category)

4th place in Zoidspoison's Model Contest

I always thought the Mirage color scheme was lost potential, like it tried to copy King Liger's awesomeness and just failed. (Oh am I the only one who thinks Mirage's colors were based off King's?) White and red are always a good combo, but Mirage just didn't have enough contrast in the colors to really make it stand out, esp when it's next to the awesome color explosion called Night Fight. So I really wanted to make Mirage actually look really nice and be able to stand out on its own.

Fully repainted my HMM Blade Liger Mirage, so yeah, no more pearl D: Changed the pearl to gloss white, the orange-red to crimson red, and the light blue to black... I REALLY hated that light blue XD I mainly wanted to switch the blue to black to add some more contrast. It really makes the white and red details just pop. I do like how they added the brown on the HMM version, I just switched that to a more richer brown. It's actually not as dark as in the pics.

Changed some of the decals compared to what was in the manual. Mostly cuz I thought there were way too many and just cluttered the thing. Also switched the Helic insignia to the old school red and black one. I matched better. Definitely one of the decals I wanted to replace was the huge gaudy CP-12 ones that were suppose to go on the top of the AB unit. Took the red strip decal from the HMM Saix's sheet and made the smaller CP-12 text with numbers from the HMM Command Wolf's sheet.

As you can see, there's already some brotherly love going on between Mirage and Shadow XD They have a cool light vs dark theme displayed by each other.

Oh and the purple light is just a neon light. Makes a cool lighting effect. Everyone always asks me about that XD;

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*SquirrelJay Jan 12, 2013

Does the Mirage come with that red cockpit, or did you tint it?
Shame to hear the red is that dreaded orange-red. I would want to spray that to the leon red. But I'm still thinking of buying one. I was going to do something similar to this by also getting a blade liger Bang version to switch the blue body parts with.
My goal is to keep the pearl though.
If only I had the skills to make it as epic as this...

~scarlett-jolteon Feb 15, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

i can't finds works to decribe this... serious... it's that awesome. anyone know a work for 'bloody epicly awesome'?

~pyromatty Dec 5, 2011

Hi. I love what you did with the Blade Liger Mirage. What type of equipment/paints, etc, did you use to modify yours? I want to make mine look like yours because the colours on yours are so much richer than the standard ones

. Also, is there anywhere that I can read up on how to apply those paints without stuffing it up?

~piggysaurus Aug 31, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

It's nice to see a Blade Liger Mirage that is fully decked out in machine lines, decals, and paint.

*AuroraLion Aug 31, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! Yeah since Mirage is a limited edition, most people are afraid to touch it.

!titmousejuggalette Aug 30, 2011 Hobbyist Filmographer

That is Nice

~VigBrastle Aug 28, 2011

Cuteness third box from bottom ^_^

~royi-20 Aug 25, 2011 Student

cool! nice work on the coloring does HMM models require assembly?

*AuroraLion Aug 25, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks! And OMG YES do they require assembly. They're way more complex with so many more parts than the old Tomy/Hasbro ones. Each kit comes with well over 400 some parts with some being quite fragile, or so small that you drop it and never see it again. But the end result is quite worth it. They just look fantastic for display.

~royi-20 Aug 26, 2011 Student

WOW!

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