5 minutes after I left to go to work. I just hope the dogs don't decide to open it up and play with my Zaku Slash Phantom. They leave other packages alone so it should be alright.
I go through frustration in different ways... working on the High Grade Barbatos was going fine until I got to those thin yellow stripes on the shoulder pauldrons. I had to sand off flashing after already painting them, resulting in having to restart them. My brush kept dragging specks of dust or clumping at the soft folds. Panel lining raked the paint off, or trying the bare skin approach to taking up accent wash stains rubbed off the paint... so back in the box it goes until the next weekend. And it's back to painting a clear Real Grade. Oddly enough, it's this kind of work that goes much easier despite the copious volume of paint it's getting. Where I left off, trimming and detailing armor. This picture is just one tray of organized chaos while I sift through the trimmed parts and filling in the initial layers of silver and green accent wash. I disconnected the arms because I wanted to fit on the bicep covers so they would stop splitting apart. I didn't use cement for a majority of this kit because I want to avoid any residue or vapor stains on the clear plastic. Continuining the leg armor, it seems the silver I added to the surface kind of covers up my painted knee area underneath but a good portion of the details are still mostly visible. I fit the rest of the clear white midsection into place and on the waist, and reconnected the arms once the biceps were covered. The main portion of the backpack is set together while I finish painting the rack clamps for the Fin Funnels and beam saber dock.
That is a gorgeous display! The ZZ would look better with a close up picture though! Still amazing work I can see from here. How'd you get or make those placards to go with them?
I'll work on taking some good pics of it this weekend I made those in powerpoint and got some business card acrylic display from amazon. I tried to get them to look like the ones Bandai has at their shows and added the date I completed the model.
NICE. I used to scribble my completion dates on kits themselves, underneath an armor panel that would never be taken off. but now I just keep it strictly in an MS Word document.
I did it just so people who see my display can tell what stuff I actually built. They used to think everything in my display case I built
I have joined the F90 club. Smaller than i expected but highly enjoyable. I dont have any mission backs and I feel a lot of them is a bit much hiding the very nice machine thats the core. Might change my mind later, never know. I do like some of the rifles that come with some of the packs. I do like a nice color separeted rifle. Too often the guns get a bit dull in one color.
Panel-lining can be a pain at that scale, but you've done an admirable job. Those decals are showing a lot of silvering, though. Have you considered a matte topcoat?
