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After a month of not taking photos, here’s the MG Exia that I was working on earlier. Not much to say about this, I don’t even think I did any thing to it other than assemble it after the last WIP.
Photo dump!!
Nothing to post, but am going to bring my PG Astray home soon. Here’s an old kit that I painted a year or two ago. No airbrush, all spray paints, with official Bandai waterslides. Minimal lining, and…that’s about it :/
These pics are from a long time ago as well, I just have nothing better to do. They’re probably still on my Facebook somewhere…
NG 1/100 Destiny, unpainted. I actually went back and removed the seams and fixed up the scratches. But now it’s gone :/
I did cleaned up the wash over the past weekend. It turns out it’s much easier to clean off 1) if I have many layers of FFA underneath and 2) if the stuff in the panel lines have already dried then it’s much easier.
I also used the waterslide decals I ordered from Samueldecals. However, a lot of those decals are red, which I decided did not look good on my all blue Exia. So, I’m stuck using dry transfers that came with the kit. No stickers. Stickers are lame. (Also, the decals I ordered are for the NG 1/100 Exia, not the MG, so some of them don’t really fit 
).
Used FFA and Flat base with it. With Zeta the finish I got was too glossy, so I added more flat base to the solution. However, then it got too flat, and everything started frosting up. I sprayed it over with less flat top coat, and am pretty pleased the results. The clear bits aren’t completely clear anymore, but that’s okay.
Exia also got sorta scratched since I’ve been leaving it around for a long time. Next time, I’ll have to make sure I topcoat everything before putting it together…
Parts painted, white over blue.
Finished painting the white over the blue parts and achieved blue/white shading. Had to do an extra coat of white because the first layer wasn’t white enough, but I’m pretty pleased with the way it is..for now. Assembled it, and gave it a coat of gloss future. The only thing that remains is the wash and decals…which will have to wait because midterms are coming up and I won’t be coming home for a while.
The darker blue parts were done by a spray can wayyyy back, which is why the finish is completely different from the rest of the parts.
Loose Exia pisses me off too. And back of head needs to be glued. I threw an LED in there, but haven’t bothered to wire up the rest of the model yet. Maybe sometime…maybe…
Pics below.
I started on this back in late December, but this was put on hold to build Sinanju and Zeta. Snap fit was completed ages ago, and inner frame was painted too. Recently, I primed this with Mr. Base 1000 (while my eyes were dilated, which didn’t go too well since I couldn’t really see anything) and then painted the white parts with blue. I plan on painting white over this blue to accomplish some sort of shading. The rest of the parts have already been completed, but no pics.
Completed parts
Parts painted with Mr. Base 1000
Parts painted with Tamiya Flat blue/white/medium blue mixture.
For good measure, retro street car in Toronto last week. Old seats are farrr better than the new crap TTC offers.
More to come later.
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 
. 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.
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