Bingotoys Windgirl(MP Windblade?)

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    She definitely has ankle tilts from what I see from images. Looks like the foot swivels where the top of her front foot piece meets that ball shaped joint, like a figma type articulation point (from what I can tell).
     
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    She does have a thigh swivel, but the ankles are on a hinge with a peg at each end, therefore you can cheat the angle rocker by rotating the hinge 90° giving you a tilt. The ankle rotates at both above and below the ankle at the foot and calf connections.
     
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    I put mine on the flat section of her collar. I think it looks good there. Not too overpowering but there if you look 20221020_202600.jpg
     
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    Emgo review up




    I think mine went to my sister's house/old address.
     
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    I was considering that, but I don't have insignia's small enough.
     
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    Pretty sure she has thigh swivel, but they're tight.

    Made some quick painting on her. Gundam Ex Markers FTW.
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    Logo placement for now until I get the microsized ones.
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    couldn't watch that vid of Emgo gushing over it w/o staring at the bad gold paint on the right cheek of her head crest/helmet/whatever. I was like "Emgo....you're not going to mention it? It's right there."
     
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    That's a pretty close color match. Which markers did you use?
     
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    Royal Metallic Red (XGM03)
    MetallicBlue (GM153)
    :) 
     
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    Hot take, but I think I would like a battle mask for her since I headcanon this as "What if Windblade was a Prime".... Love her regardless

    wanna know something bad? I wouldn't have noticed if you haven't said something lol
     
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    Looks great but it's kinda' hard to tell in photos - just how good is the color match on the red? Is it close enough that you think you wouldn't notice the discrepency when looking at it?
     
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    The red is slightly deeper, but due to it being a metallic color it blends in quite close to not be noticeable. The blue is definitely a shade lighter, but for me the areas I painted them on is far away from her face enough to not make it obvious.

    Argh just notice I smudged some blue on her collar...
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    Since I have her on pre-order with BBTS, I emailed them to see if they had any idea when she would be coming in. Unsurprisingly, they don’t. I’m debating whether or not to cancel my pre-order with them and go with someone that has her in stock, like show Z or TF Safari. Any suggestions? How reliable are the overseas vendors?
     
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    ShowZ is very reliable. Customer service is excellent and they accept feedback with regards to trying different shipping methods. And it only took 7 days to get her once they shipped.
     
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    Thank you. Only issue I see is the light scattering on her red parts is an orange color while the scattering on the gundam marker is red. It's more apparent in the second pic with the brighter light - all the highlights are orange except where you painted. I wonder if a yellow or gold pearl powder would fix that. This is why I generally don't try to match metallic colors - normally you've just got to deal with hue, value, and saturation, but with metallics you also have to deal with diffusion. I happen to have a gold pearl powder so I think I'll order those gundam markers and do some tests. I really feel like the sea of black on her torso is too much and I love what you've done with the colors - I just want them to match as much as possible if I try to do it myself.
     
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    I see no upside to staying with BBTS over ShowZ or Bombusbee. Both are over $50 cheaper when you factor in shipping and taxes. Both vendors are excellent, and shipping time is really not that bad. Usually 2 weeks or so.
     
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    I have switched to ShowZ, who doesn't want better pricing?

    I got mine a couple of days ago. Love the hand options. Face looks amazing. The metallic red looks great against the black. A little more color and details would have been nice.Its not often you can find an MP figure for under a $100! I'd say a definite B+.
     
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    Might have to do this to mine. The additional paint really makes the figure pop even more than it already did. Looks awesome bro.
     
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    Ah, I see what you meant :)  Maybe a layer of clear orange/yellow on top? Not sure if that would work, haha.
     
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    No, not clear. That'd change the hue. What you want is what's called interference (couldn't think of the word earlier and called it "scattering" which is basically the same thing) which is what you get from pearl powders (you mix them into a clear coat).

    So this is an example of blue interference over white paint:
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    You can see that the white doesn't look blue (an in fact is kind of a slightly beige off-white) except for where the light reflects and that reflected light comes back blue. This is a pic of blue ghost pearl over white paint. And here's a pic of gold ghost pearl over red:

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    It's a warmer slightly orangeish red in that pic, unlike Windgirl's more red-red, but you can see how the highlights are very orange and even gold at the brightest points. Basically the mica powder that's used for the metallic effect is gold tinted while the paint's pigment is still red. Anyway, I have some gold ghost pearl powder so what I want to try is putting a thin coat or two of that over the red gundam marker you posted (since the color match is pretty damn close) and see if I can get it to match Windgirl's red. I'm gonna' go ahead and order the marker and then I'll do some tests on some scrap pieces to see if I can get them to match and, if so, I'll go ahead and paint mine similar to yours because I love the color placement you chose.
     
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