My next project will be an HG Wing Gundam and I’d like to turn those yellow parts into a shiny gold (think Hyaku Shiki or Akatsuki). What is the best practical way for me to achieve such a color? I don’t have any fancy airbrush. I have been eying over those metallic spray paints but I’m not sure if…[Read more]
Just airbrushing alone won’t give you effect you want. Metallic spray paints also don’t give you an actual metal finish, just a sparkly one. What you want is something similar to Krylon’s premium series, or any other series of paints that actually give you the metal sheen, without sparkly bits thrown in.
There are two ways to go about it….
#1- If there aren’t a lot of parts that need to be painted, a more cost effective way is to buy the Valleo Liquid Metal set. This set consists of 4 different paints; Silver, Bronze, Old Gold and Gold. The Old Gold is a color between Gold and Bronze. These can only be painted with a brush. And unlike other…[Read more]
just to add to that a bit, you should also clean your parts thoroughly and give them a good sanding with a very high grit sandpaper, to get the smoothest cleanest surface, which will in turn give you the best results with either method. won’t garuntee a perfect shiny gold but it’ll get the best out of your paints, for a true gold you need to get…[Read more]
Electroplating can be done on plastic. I recently have seen a video with Adam of MithBusters on YouTube. He has a life size Endoskeleton of the Terminator. It is chromed in the same way as they chrome metal parts for cars and it’s fully plastic. They spray a highly copper based material on it first in order to run an electric current through the…[Read more]
that’s cool wasn’t sure, but yeah wasn’t really expecting anyone try it. Though if they did that’d be the way to get actual mirror finishes. Kinda extreme but now that I know it’s possible I wonder if I’ll ever see anyone go that far.
Hello fellow modellers, my question today is regarding displaying my models. I would like to ask where i can get a small display case for my recently completed MG Destiny Custom Build, i was thinking something around 40 cm higher around 30 m wide and about 20cm length, it doesn’t have to be that size but that’s just to put a sense of scale to it.…[Read more]
I can’t give an actual one to find but you could search second hand shops around your town. I found an old china cabinet that I use to display my 1/144 kits so you may find something.
I use Vallejo air for most of my projects and I find they generally don’t need thinning. If they do, I stick with the Vallejo thinner. I’ve tried isopropyl and the Tamiya thinner, but they turn the Vallejo into a clumpy mess. Something about the chemistry just does not mix.
With that said, I’ve never seen this ‘Metal Medium’ before. How’s it…[Read more]
Hi, I use Vallejo Model Air because I’m a beginner and you can use them without thinning (well.. almost all of them but not all).
When I have to thin i always use Vallejo Airbrush thinner (i tend to follow the rule: same brand for combinations).
The metal medium is used to give metal shine to a given color. Instructions says 50% color and 50%…[Read more]
Last month, after attending the All Japan Model Hobby Show in Tokyo, the event venue was Tokyo Big Sight, which is in the area near Diver City, home to Gundam Front Tokyo. This is where the life-size Gundam is! It used to be located at Higashi Shizuoka Station, but was moved to Odaiba just before I moved to Shizuoka Prefecture nearly three years…[Read more]
Hi. It will be dry stickers. Only on newer kits, and not often, you’ll be getting water slides. And mostly on Ver. Ka. editions. There are of course options to get water slides if you prefer them. Maybe Bandai them self will have them, just try on HLJ. Or you could get some made by SamualDecal or make them yourself. But the kit contains normal stickers
Cause mega size rx 78-2 has water slides as is not very new either…. So sword impulse has only dry stickers which is transparent and ready to stick right?
yep transparent stickers and dry rub on thats usually the case for mgs the only reason mega size is water slides is becasue its mega size there arent that many of em so im gunna asume bandai said y no plus waterslides are usually the better decals so bandai would obviously think hey more money when ppl can buy em separately
Just realize that Bandai did released it long time ago..but been discontinued for a while..if they ever released it again I would buy one since I’ve the MG for a while in the box unbuild
Hello everyone. So I ran into a strange problem while trying to paint a MG Epyon EW. I primed the parts a few days ago with a 2x coat white primer and tried to put a clear gloss top coat on today but the top coat seems to be eating the primer. They are both the same brand and model of primer/clearcoat. Am i doing something wrong or does this…[Read more]
Well i wanted to paint the parts white and the primer is the same shade of white as my paint, so when i tried to airbrush the white onto the part i couldn’t tell where i had hit and how thick it went on so i figured i could just hit it with a gloss top coat to get the desired effect.
well primers and topcoats just like paints come in acrylic enamel and lacour, and just like paints lacour will eat through enamel and acrylic and enamel will eath through acrylic, and even if it’s the same brand, you have to make sure it’s the same type or atleast not being used in the orders that eat through each other.
don’t want to discourage you, ofcourse aiming to be competition worthy is a great goal but if you’re just starting with paints don’t be too critical or expect too much it takes time to develop those skill all the same I wish you the best.
gold metallic spray is pretty dull so sorry dude u use an airbrush for that kinda shiny gold
Just airbrushing alone won’t give you effect you want. Metallic spray paints also don’t give you an actual metal finish, just a sparkly one. What you want is something similar to Krylon’s premium series, or any other series of paints that actually give you the metal sheen, without sparkly bits thrown in.
well if u use aclad colors plus mgm chrome powder it can do the trick pretty well
There are two ways to go about it….
#1- If there aren’t a lot of parts that need to be painted, a more cost effective way is to buy the Valleo Liquid Metal set. This set consists of 4 different paints; Silver, Bronze, Old Gold and Gold. The Old Gold is a color between Gold and Bronze. These can only be painted with a brush. And unlike other…[Read more]
just to add to that a bit, you should also clean your parts thoroughly and give them a good sanding with a very high grit sandpaper, to get the smoothest cleanest surface, which will in turn give you the best results with either method. won’t garuntee a perfect shiny gold but it’ll get the best out of your paints, for a true gold you need to get…[Read more]
Electroplating can be done on plastic. I recently have seen a video with Adam of MithBusters on YouTube. He has a life size Endoskeleton of the Terminator. It is chromed in the same way as they chrome metal parts for cars and it’s fully plastic. They spray a highly copper based material on it first in order to run an electric current through the…[Read more]
that’s cool wasn’t sure, but yeah wasn’t really expecting anyone try it. Though if they did that’d be the way to get actual mirror finishes. Kinda extreme but now that I know it’s possible I wonder if I’ll ever see anyone go that far.