FIRELINE 001 REX

Title

FIRELINE 001 REX

Subtitle / Series Line

A Scale Modelling Technique Guide by Lincoln Wright · FIRELINE Series — Studio Release 001

Overview

🛰️ Product Overview
Formats Available:

• 🔥 Workbench Edition + Digital — Best Value · Print Book + Digital Edition (PDF)
• 📗 Print Edition · Print Book Only
• 💻 Digital Edition · PDF Only

This is a pre-order. The print run is sized to the order book — pre-ordering is how you get into the first printing. Delivery details below.

✦ The Build I Owed This Kit

I built the Barbatos Lupus Rex once before. A sponsor asked for clean. I delivered clean. It performed, it was published, and it never sat right.

This is the version I actually wanted to make.

FIRELINE 001 documents the full studio treatment of Bandai's Full Mechanics 1/100 Lupus Rex — a machine from a universe where combat is kinetic. These suits don't exchange beam fire at range. They dent, scrape, cook from the inside, and drag themselves home covered in dust and hydraulic fluid. Every surface decision in this build has a story reason: scavenged armour carries a different texture than factory plate, chipping concentrates where the machine hits things, and the finish is asymmetric because the damage was.

The entire build is hand-brushed. No airbrush touches this model — not the base coats, not the weathering, not the finish. Every chip is painted on, not chipped off.

This is both a gallery book and a bench document. The gallery pages show what changed — the sponsor build and this one, side by side. The bench pages show how.

📘 What's Inside

FIRELINE 001 REX · 32 Pages · Full Colour · Softcover
A4 wire-bound field manual. Lays flat during painting sessions. Premium satin stock — durable and wipeable. Clear protective covers front and back.

✦ The Complete Build

• The studio re-shade — replacing the toy palette with a grounded military scheme, and the reasoning behind every colour call
• Sticker elimination through hand-brushed layering
• Additive chipping — the full painted-on system: colour order, tool comparison, and the unifying pass that makes five armour schemes read as one worn machine
• Why this machine gets no panel lining — and what replaces it
• Two surface languages on one model — rough scavenged plate against cold-rolled factory steel
• The exposed inner frame sequence — base metal, picked-out hydraulics, oil pin-wash
• Oils without an airbrush — dust, streaking, and asymmetric heat staining
• Markings at 1/100 — why small and tight reads big
• Before / after gallery — the sponsor build and the studio build, side by side
• Integrated build narrative — the story logic behind every surface decision

⚙️ Why It Matters

FIRELINE is the new studio series: one complete build per volume, methodology extracted, nothing padded. REX is volume one. Every technique in it was executed with brushes and hobby-shop paints — no airbrush, no specialist equipment — and every technique transfers to whatever is on your bench next. If you followed the build on YouTube, this is the full methodology in sequence, with the reasoning that never fit inside an episode, in a format that lives on the bench instead of a second screen.

🧩 Variant Options

🔥 Workbench Edition + Digital — Best Value
Includes:

• FIRELINE 001 REX Workbench Edition (Print)
• FIRELINE 001 REX Digital Edition (PDF)

The bench artefact plus the permanent digital archive. Digital delivers first.

📗 Print Edition
Includes:

• FIRELINE 001 REX Workbench Edition (Print)

The physical book only. No digital component — ships with the print run, estimated late October.

💻 Digital Edition
Includes:

• FIRELINE 001 REX Digital Edition (PDF)

The complete guide, delivered on release.

📦 Availability & Shipping — Pre-Order

Direct-only. No resellers.

This title is on pre-order. The print run is sized to the order book — a deliberate production cycle, not a warehouse gamble. Pre-ordering secures your copy in the first printing.

Digital delivers first. Every order that includes the Digital Edition receives the PDF on release — estimated early October 2026. DRM-free. Multiple downloads included.

Print — estimated dispatch late October 2026:

• US / UK / EU — ships from the Paint on Plastic U.S. warehouse in NJ
• AU / APAC — ships from the Sydney Studio

Progress updates — including the print proof — are posted across Paint on Plastic social channels as production advances. Current fulfilment status is always live at:
[Current Launch Status →]
A direct link is included in your purchase confirmation email.

From my studio bench to yours. 👊 — Lincoln Wright