I completed these two kits a bit ago. The ikaruga kit was my first time adding a bit of paint and using waterslides. I feel like the kotobukiya kits pushed me into trying out…
Thank you for sharing, and you did a wonderful job on the paintwork. I have these kits myself too, but I haven’t had the courage to start painting. Did you paint this with airbrush or paintbrushes? The kit is excruciatingly small, and I obviously had to glue some of the parts. Dunno if it’s possible to pre-shade.
All I did with them was hand paint the details with enamels, gloss clear coat krylon acrylic, panel line wash enamel, matte coat with krylon acrylic. Take the plunge. Even if it doesn’t turn out the way you want its a learning experience. I’m buying an airbrush set this week, so I expect some failures on the way! Thanks for the encouragement.
Tell us how you really feel about customer support Ryan! Looking forward to some expo coverage next week. Hope they show us a mg with a completely new mold. Probably not this year. Bandai is really letting the mg list pile up.
Had this idea for displaying some of my smaller gunpla the other day. Gonna try to get my hands on some bigger jars. It would be cool to put one together inside like a ship.
Great show as usual guys. The plastic on the frame robo looks really flexible. I imagine painting isn’t going to work out so well. Syd should spray a piece and let us know. Thanks again for 5 years of making it OK for adults to play with toys!
5 years ago I didn’t even know there were different grades of gunpla. I just remembered doing some of the old hg wing kits from over 15 years ago at this point. Almost 3 years ago I was looking for a new hobby to mess with and thought those gundams were pretty fun, I wonder if there’s any more. Haha! My free time has been filled with nothing else since.
I don’t even care that Syd coughed all over the revive pamphlets. I still want one. Thanks for reading my comment. I posted a pic of the custom petit bearguy that looks like me in the hobbylink TV group since you asked. Can’t wait to see how the Slave 1 turns out.
Good work.
Koto makes some very interesting models.
You might wanna try Armored Core & Frame Arms.
I have one in Black and I customized that one for the It’s a Gundam Annual Contest last year.
I guess its pretty much the same kit. I like how the wings turned out on yours.
They really do I have two kits from the Koto company and they have great features.
Thank you for sharing, and you did a wonderful job on the paintwork. I have these kits myself too, but I haven’t had the courage to start painting. Did you paint this with airbrush or paintbrushes? The kit is excruciatingly small, and I obviously had to glue some of the parts. Dunno if it’s possible to pre-shade.
All I did with them was hand paint the details with enamels, gloss clear coat krylon acrylic, panel line wash enamel, matte coat with krylon acrylic. Take the plunge. Even if it doesn’t turn out the way you want its a learning experience. I’m buying an airbrush set this week, so I expect some failures on the way! Thanks for the encouragement.