Legs almost done construction wise.
The armor parts can open and close, the knee guard and the ankle guard can move up and down.
Now it’s time to make new feet.
Taking in consideration Moldrunner’s comment on my last update, I’m showing a sketch I did for my Silver Blaze.
There are some parts with almost no details, but that’s because I haven’t decided how the panel lines and option parts will be yet.
The legs might look a bit weird, because I just drew one side, copied and inverted it to be symmetrical.
When i say matte finish, i meant that for the non-metallic parts of the model. I also noticed after uploading the images that there is a big hole in between the panels and break disk. I could probably add some more details on there to me it look engine-like.
I finally got my package. I immediately started applying the photo etched parts from the porche detail sheet and I’m really loving the rich details it’s bringing in to the inner frame.
Also got the other supplies that I need to assemble soon.
Painting tests day 3. I’m loving this gun metal paint. My iPhone photos can’t do it justice. I’m liking the contrast it has with the semi-glossy armor panels. It will pop out…
Update time. Started painting on some parts. I know that’s not the usual technique of primering the whole kit then add base colors but this way I can make modifications based…
Almost done with the leg inner frame and knee joints (of course, they need cleanup and detailing).
Using the original feet here just because I haven’t made the feet yet.
Is there one section you are not scratchbuilding? There’s a lot of scratchbuilding going on around here, but I have at least a picture how the others might turn out. Yours is a complete mystery. I am so curious how it will look like in the end.
Haha, yeah! I’ve been thinking of posting some sketches I did, and now seeing your comment I’m convinced.
Basically, the only parts I’m not gonna scratchbuild are the head, the thighs and the arms.
So I had to beef up the kit and I brought in some dendrobium parts I had lying around and built a mounting backpack. Time to articulate this pack a bit and shift my focus there while I wait for more parts.
Its a nice metaleffect. Are you going to spray it? I love the cloudy and inhomogen shading when its done with drybrushing, thats why I spend all the time an work.But maybe a wash afterwards gives you the same result with less pain.
Weekend progress:
Started scratchbuilding the knee joints, adding details to the thighs and hollowing the inside of the lower legs (so I can make the inner frame for that).
Read the descriptions of the photos for more.
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I use different grays at base and go,over with satturating drybrush of different metalcolors like chrome, silver and gunmetal. If it comes to create different metal surfaces of an inner frame. For me it feels not natural if it is all shiny like polished chrome.
Next batch of tests. Since I screwed up the first casting I made, I used the test pieces as paint tests for the cans I have. The satin blue tint can i have seems to work well…
If you have an airbrush and can spray lacquer or fume heavy paints then mr.color steel and Alclad steel look nice. Just leave them bare though as even gloss clearcoat can dull their metallic sheen.
Otherwise tamiya gunmetal seems to be the go to spraycan for inner frames for a lot of gunpla modelers.
See that is the challenge here. Where I live here in aruba, we don’t have a hobby shop and there are none of these paints! You even have to import the airbrush yourself. Even if you’re able to import the air brush, you still need find the paints which you can’t import since they are prohibited flammable material.
Have you considered just painting the frame a flat dark grey or black with only specific parts silver or metallic grey (like the inside of certain joints, hydraulics, etc)? That can look great when done right too and the light/dark contrast really makes certain parts “pop”.
Yeah I really want that clear dark and light contrast with frame being gun metal and the armors being flat white and blue. But the frame needs to be metallic since I’m adding a lot of photo-etched parts with varying metals such as copper and silver.
Update time. I tried my hand on resin casting clear parts. It turns out making a mold is not as easy as it seems. I made a few bubbles on the resin and miss aligned cast….
gundam is stood there looking a bit like you are watching his wife het undressed haha
That’s a funny observation. Lol.