I just started watching Gunpla TV about 3 months ago and I wanted to say thank you for giving me the final push into modeling again! It’s literally been…
Don’t use flat coat on a chrome kit, there aren’t many top coats that work well with a metalized kit either, I have heard mention of an alclad top coat, but I don’t know if that works on kits that have been painted with a high gloss chrome paint, or plated kits as well?
I’ll have to experiment with the runner remains with that alclad top coat, thanks for the heads-up! Cheers. I just finished the MG Infinite Justice and it turned out AMAZING and I placed majority of the decals on it. Now Im debating if I want to go further with that one
Well it had nothing to do with being THAT guy, I watch Gunpla Tv for the Gunpla. Its cool to see other kinds of kits(like cars) but that’s not why I sit through the vids. They show other cool kits when they can but that’s just it, not enough new different stuff for a show case 🙁
I have a MG X10A Freedom (my 1st gunpla build ever) and it ran into a problem.
When I got it, after washing the sprues, the first thing I did was to ‘protect it’ with Tamiya Semi-Gloss (TS-79).
That’s where, I believe, the problems began.
I was using the gundam panel liner pens to do panel lines, however, the pens died really…[Read more]
There’s definitely an interaction between top-coats and various pens we can use for panel lining: http://www.graemenattress.com/wp/panel-lining/ – so what I’ve ended up using is a combination of an oil-paint panel line wash over the gloss top coat, or careful use of a Rapidograph technical pen.
So I recently tried submitting my Gundam RX-78-2 hoodie design to a cosplay group on ebay, and was unfortunately tuned down. Kind of bums me out a bit, but I guess the design…