That poor fucking mobile suit, just keeps getting more and more shit piled on. He's like "Jesus Christ get this shit off of me I have to use the bathroom I can't even go indoors my wife and I sleep in separate beds you have to help me-"
Just finished an MG GP01. Very straightforward and looks the part. These old kits have very limited articulation though. And that core fighter is never coming out again, haha. Before: After:
I finished assembling the Crossbone's Core Fighter, and I have to say I still don't fully understand their reason with designing the hinged portion other than to make a compound sleeve for the posts of the outer shell.. I still need to finish some detail painting but now I can get to the body of the Gundam itself.
Neat. I wonder if they'll dare to make the Beam Zamber!! I thought the weapons' bare white and yellow color scheme was too boring, so I added some more color, my dark gray paint looks a little black but the contrast works. Speaking of added color, I thought the white plastic intake on the Core Fighter was bland. I mixed a little bit of red and british crimson in my paint pan just to fill in the red 'scars' on the face, and had just enough left to do this. *sloppy edges to be fixed later*
3D printing is bougie. Real craftsmen CNC their stuff from a solid block of aluminum. The lightsaber scene be wildin.
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The Airmaster Burst has my interest now. It's the only 1:100 scale X kit I ever built and I wouldn't mind seeing it again as a modern HG. - *thanks @BIOMEC for tagging me in another thread, here's one for the Gunpla thread. I went on the nightly walk with the herd and had the company of a few of the Moobile Sweeties. Jegan and her Zeta, she's definitely a Plus. Barely two months old and has that kind of shine and growth... also she has great panel lines. Badump bump. Meanwhile Jesta is still walking around very pregnant and very aggressively friendly demanding attention from me. Seriously, she sees me and immediately comes racing up the pasture to get her shoulder scratched. On the plus side when she leans into me, i put my hand to the right side of her stomach and felt the calf moving.
To those of you who paint, are you wearing masks? I bought a whole bunch of stuff right before this whole mess started (airbrush, compressor, spray booth, p95 mask, etc.), but didn't get a chance to try my hand at gunpla painting. Now that I have time again I find myself wondering if I should use the mask (and the few filters I have) for this hobby or hold off on painting and hold onto them just in case. Filters seem impossible to get now.
I use acrylics, so I wore a dust mask and have a spray booth that vents out a window. If you do more enamels or lacquers, I would recommend wearing a mask even with a spray booth. The "paper" carbon filters my new mask uses are rated for 50-60 hours for low impact activity like airbrushing, so it depends on your stock and future availability. The manufacturer of my mask are finally starting to get regular stock of masks and filters.
Holy crap I almost ruined the same parts a second time. I did a panel line wash yesterday evening, and couldn't find time to clean it off until this morning. In the past I've always used Testors enamels gloss, but I had run out and I wasn't able to find any at my normal shops locally, so I ended up with some Humbrol enamels matte from a hobby shop that I found. Either the Humbrol enamels just have a different drying/curing/working time than the Testors, or maybe their matte enamels just suck at being used for panel line washes, but I had sooooo much trouble cleaning off the excess: it either wasn't coming off without a ton of elbow grease, and when they did, it would almost come off in tiny flakes. Never had this problem with the Testors paints. Managed to get all the excess off, but ended up cleaning off more than I needed, so I'll need to go through a second pass to re-fill some of the lines/recesses.
I built Zerachiel over this weekend - no stickers besides the eyes since my paint station is taken up by the Ambroid project, but he looks pretty good simply snap built.
Okay.. ... this has been the bane of my color theory problem going into the past week and a half. Until today! Impulse buy before Bluefin shut down their P.Bandai service in favor of P.Bandai US after a friend gave me the NewtypeHQ Advance of Hazel Bundle at X-mas... Hazenthley Rah II.. the literal EX-S of excess in the Advance of Z kits. To go with the rest of the AoZ kits, I bought the Hrududu II Expansion set, and took that claw-mount socket on the right shoulder of Hazenthley, and replacing it with the closed type (see left shoulder), since the cannon parts it's made for are with the G-Parts addled Advanced Hazel..... but that is a project for another day. What this is about though, is what sets it apart from all of the other AoZ kits. Its frame is PURPLE.. and there's detail points to paint but as my only Testors solution is still in the mail, I'm using a cheap bottle of Apple Barrel acrylic, Royal Violet, thinned down heavily, mixed with Testors Gunship Gray, Flat Black, and a drop of Dark Blue. A one and done mix. While my mix settled, I ran through the manual and started clipping the parts needed after looking at painted samples and straight builds. I made just enough paint in the pan to do this. Mission accomplished.
Real Grade GP01, for some reason the white piece on the corefighter/chest vent doesn't like to stay on.
I still hate that they do only monochrome boxes and manuals for Peebs. How are we supposed to get the colors right without a reference, you nincompoops.
Lineart or the announcement posters, it's what I had to do a few times. Though to be fair some of the newer P.Bandai in monochrome boxes do have full color manuals. Vigna Zirah's is
If the box for the Geminass 01 is any indication, they may not necessarily BE monochrome exclusive anymore. Monochrome itself isn't PBandai exclusive since I know convention-based exclusives do it too - the box for my Super Fumina Axis Angel Mk. II Axis Image ver. is monochrome red and it's not P-Bandai.
Highly recommended. I airbrush, so I have a homemade spray-booth that vents the fumes/particles out the window, and I wear a filtered respirator when I do it. I've actually been wearing my filtered respirator when going to get groceries these days...
