It’s about time I got around to getting this page up! Enjoy!
You suck.
Still out of sorts, so I haven’t been doing much lately. V-Dash has a few pictures taken, but to be honest the kit itself is one of those that is great to work on but when it comes to posing and photos there’s only so much you can do especially if you don’t want to damage the paint or anything. I’ll try to have the page done soonish, sill.
ReZEL is coming along now, it’s time to start masking areas off to paint the blue accents and work on the backpack and weapons.
The Astraea kitbash has become a monster of it’s own. I think I’ve finally hit the point where it’s time to start puttying all the parts together and painting things. For the curious, the total sword count is 19 blades. In other gunpla news, I wound up with the RG Zaku II and MG Red Frame after going to Ohayocon this weekend…so much for not buying more kits. This must be how busterbeam feels.
Pictures and review coming when I’m not sick any more.
You can also expect some more figure reviews coming up since I finally sat down to take some pictures of the many I’ve amassed as of late, have some teaser pictures.
Progress is getting made on everything, despite mother nature’s best attempts to hold me up as much as possible.
V-Dash is coming along great. I still have all of the other weapons to build and paint, not to mention decal everything. But I think now that I have this much together I can really focus on ReZEL and the Astraea kitbash. I’m VERY pleased with how this turned out so far.
ReZEL’s parts are all prepped for priming and painting, just need to find the free time to get that done. I even have the primer mixed and ready thanks to having some Mr. Spare bottles now (another awesome purchase care of Sonar).
This thing has been tweaked a little bit and is on my list of stuff to prime at the same time as ReZEL. So far so good!
This is turning out wonderfully. I’m pleased with how my first airbrush project is turning out!
I’m also done painting ReZEL’s white parts and am trying to find time to start priming the outer armor parts.
I think I’m going to tweak the GN drive placement, but this is turning out alright so far too! Should be priming it soon.
On an impulse (and because I’m a sucker for sales), I’ve wound up building the MG V-Dash alongside my MG ReZEL. I have to say that this kit has proven to be amazing so far, then again I haven’t actually built much of the Gundam. I’m enjoying it every step of the way, along with the ReZEL (which I already have the frame finished for and am now trying to find time to do my painting and aftermarket part fitting).
Half finished core booster and skirts
The rest of the parts prepped for painting
So far the airbrushing process has been going smoothly aside from a few hiccups, which are as follows:
Too high PSI (30!!) Corrected down to 8-10 PSI thanks to Sonar.
Spiderwebbing (fixed: thin more) Pooling/splattering (fixed: thin less)- Both of these were when I was trying to figure out how to mix the paint before I realized for mixing larger batches I could use those little cups that come with medicine to keep extra paint at the ready and have more than enough to prime a whole kit. Mr. Color paint bottles are only 10mL and don’t last nearly as long as I’d like (something that probably has to do with mixing batches too large at first) but overall it’s still more efficient than using spraycans. I get the feeling I’ll wrap this up before ReZEL, but only because ReZEL will get more intensive than this (plus I started this first).
ReZEL hasn’t been without it’s own follies, care of my own clumsiness. I had a few parts from my airbrush soaking in thinner to get the paint off…knocked it over and it got on one of the leg parts. SURPRISE, they crumbled in no time. Luckily they were all clean breaks and I’ve superglued them all back together (Should have taken pics, but as soon as they broke I went in to the zone to fix them) and I’m pleased to say that I’ve fixed everything without losing any mobility in the legs. I’m going to have to start working on things in the morning thanks to daylight savings, so maybe things will start moving along faster on this.
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