Ah. Finally started blogging. Not sure how long I can keep this up, with school and all. These first couple of posts should be pretty lame, as I get used to this thing. It’ll probably be about  Gunpla/random ramblings about stuff. I don’t really expect this to get very busy, nor do I expect very many people to read this (until I advertise for it), but here goes anyways.

To start off, here is my most recent build, a MG Zeta Gundam Ver 2.0, built for 2Old4Toys’ Gundam competition:

This build was the first using an airbrush–an Iwata Eclipse HP-CS. I use an ordinary hardware compressor, but it’s sufficient for my needs. The airbrush is amazing. Two of the biggest benefits so far is that 1/ it allows for far greater control of the spray, and 2/ I can mix my own custom colours. I previously use Tamiya Lacquer spray cans, which were good, but had very limited precision, and I could not always find an exact shade I wanted. The main disadvantage is having to clean in between colours, but after a while I should be able to get it done relatively quickly.

But this also allows me to play around with hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions (basically the fact that oil and water do not mix). Using Tamiya Acrylics (water based) as my primary paints and Future Floor Acrylic (which is also water based), I develop a bunch of layers that are all water based. This way I can do washes with enamels (since they do not harm the acrylic layers) and other possibly more advanced techniques in the future which involves using oils over water based paints.

I also worked with pla-plates for the first time. I can’t really cut it straight it, but I recently bought a Tamiya scriber, which should help me. I used .3mm pla-plates for the armour detailing, but I want to get some 1mm thick pla-plates. I have this diorama in my mind that I want to do :P . It takes a stupid amount of time, but it really adds to the amount of detail present in the kit.

tl;dr. Here are a bunch of pictures of the completed kit. WIP pics in the video.