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Q/A & Help Group 8 years, 7 months ago Hey guys. I’m currently working on the first kit I got back in elementary school (1/100 HG Nataku). I did such a shoddy job back then that I’m motivated to do my best on it. A couple months ago I bought a pack of tiny acrylic jewels for Michael’s (Arts and Crafts store) becuase I want to place them in the V fins center and the other forehead cameras. I plan to paint them with translucent paints later on, but I just really like the look of “lenses” in the appropriate places. I’ve having a very tough time cutting them down to size, let alone grasping them because they are tiny. Do any of you have experience fitting acrylic jewels on your Gunpla? Any sizing tips would be greatly appreciated. Currently I cut the jewels smaller with a pair of nippers, but it’s difficult when the jewel gets tiny. I’m thinking that maybe I need to find smaller jewels to work with.
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In terms of cutting jewels, I’m sorry, can’t be of any help. No idea comes to mind.
However, I looked around for you at HLJ and maybe found something interesting for you.
At HLJ, if you go to:
-Sci-Fi
-By “Type” choose: Option Kits
-With “Company” choose: Wave
They have something called “H-Eyes”. These come in round, large and small, and square (and rectangle). All of them come in pink, green and clear.
The clear you can obviously paint whichever color you want. If you paint the backside silver, this will give you the effect of them being jewels or camera’s.
Maybe this will help a bit. For your jewels, it pops to mind, you could always sand them down with sanding sticks or just lay sandpaper on your table (for a flat surface to get straight edges) provided you can hold them with your hands or tweezers. Good luck
@teetee580 Dude you are THE MAN. These are seriously perfect and cheap! I also never intended to keep the jewels looking like jewels. I intended to sand them down but by the time I cut the jewels do to size that could maybe fit the piece, it was so tiny that I couldn’t hold them. So when I actually do put the tiny jewel on the sand paper it would roll around instead of laying flat. I never thought of using tweezers though ahah. Thanks a lot man you are great! Happy building mate!
You’re welcome. And thank you, you’re making me blush. LOL
Glad I could help out. Happy building to you too
Again, adding to what teetee580 said, if you want an easy way to make the back of the jewel shiny without painting, you can cut out a piece of a foil sticker sheet (most Bandai kits would have them) and apply it to the back.
It’s the same method used on the MG Nu Gundam Ver.Ka to give the clear green psycho frame a “glowing” effect.
@Nick Oh that’s pretty cool indeed. Thanks for the input. Happy building!