Same one I got. I’m not expecting more than 2 years out of it. But the tank evens out the air pressure so you don’t get pressure spikes from the motor when it turns off and on. It’s an oiless motor so you don’t get oil mixing with your paint, this will shorten the motor life as well. And it has a regulator, which is a must for airbrushing. But $90…[Read more]
A good way to start is using pla-plates! They are thin plastic plates that you can cut up and glue on kits.
Also scoring panel is another great to add details, but the placement on it is important. By adding pla-plates and panel lines u can bring out areas on the armors to look like a MG kit, bit remember not to add or else it can look mess.
Can you maybe give me some example on adding detail so that it won’t be too messy???
Hee…please I really have no experience in that area…
I’ve tried searching internet for example but it’s quite hard to find a custom devil gundam…
I’ve done a teeny tiny little bit of panel lining at left knee…
Where I try to imitate a little of rg destiny knees…
And I’m already running out of idea hehe…
Anymore advise please…
Now that’s the problem…
It’s been 2 months since i posted the kit…
And still I feel a little worried that I might ruin the kit since I never do weathering or battle damage before…
Guess I lack of creativity after all hehe…
Ok, so today i went to the hobby store and got me some light green gundam marker, clear green acrylic paint, and flat black acrylic paint and some brushes, and that paint thinner.
So i mainly bought these to learn how to colour the eyes of my gundams, Will practice on my high grades first which the plastic for the eyes aren’t clear transparent…[Read more]
thinner is used for 2 things:
1. you mix it with your paint to get it to a nice consistency generally close to a 1 to 1 ratio is pretty good.
2. you use it to clean your brushes.
but I hate to tell you this but you have the wrong thinner. the Mr.hobby thinner is a lacqour thinner what you want is Tamiya x20 thinner.
yup that’s right, what I see there in that pic is a lacquer thinner, it’s pretty hard to tell with everything being Japanese and all, that is ofcourse unless you can read Japanese, but usually the store guys should be able to tell you.
upon further digging though it seems you can use lacquer thinner with acrylic paint, most people even seem to be…[Read more]
You can always handbrush the paints onto the piece for the eyes if you’d like. You can try and brush both colors onto the piece and hope you have a steady hand or you can brush the clear color you want onto the whole piece (make sure it is lacquer). After this is done, you can brush on the black paint (Acrylic) then once the paint has dried, you…[Read more]
…You can use gundam markers if you choose, there is a green eye color and of course black for standard gundam eyes, gonna try using some acrlic paint for a gouf’s eye but debating on getting some plastic sticker jewels instead provided they fit.
I do mine the same way as baui except i use clear acrylics with black enamel on top. Then some paint thinner on a qtip to clean the black off the raised areas. Its called a reverse wash.
I do it the way Ace mentioned. Put down silver paint, and put a clear color over it. Proceed to put black enamel over the part. I did it free hand before, but this way is easier.
Hey @Rekone, the method I use to prevent discoloration is a little bit time consuming but effective. I first cut the part off leaving a huge nub. Then I take a small file and sand the nub all the way down. Then I take super fine sand paper and polish the part to a smooth finish.
I use 600 grit after I file down the nub and then to polish everything up I use some 44 micron sanding film. Its a super slow and boring way to do it but it works pretty well.