Oh goodie! Another question: can I just buy a LED strip and cannibalize the LED’s? All tutorials I saw just say cut on the prescribed area (to keep the series grouping intact).
i have the wing zero, epyon and all endless waltz hg 1/100 from the 90’s as well! also all the non-grade 1/144 of gundam wing. the hg 1/100 are a lot better than their crappy 1/144 counterparts… so much that i bought the updated hgac wing and wing zero and because i don’t think they’ll never be updated as model kits, the robot damashii…[Read more]
i’m thinking of making dioramas out of my crappy 1/144s, probably the permanent glued together type. will remake the wing zero vs d-hell scene in space and the wing gundam self-destruct. not sure what to do with the altron.
Watched HobbyLinkTV gunpla on Youtube and was kind of inspired. This is my first Gundam in Years and noticed they changed it to Gunpla…here is the first 1/144 I have ever done.
The next badge. Still a GM RX-78-2 2.0(Every Gundam collection needs the grand daddy IMO) and the MG Aile Strike R.M. in private warehouse at HLJ. Damn those restocks LOL. Thanks to HLJ for creating me a backlog 😀
Oh, and why not the Strike Freedom Full Burst Mode? Going to do ‘Mechie Plating’ myself. With the FBM there are a lot of parts that need to be plated anyways and this way I don’t have to strip the Bandai plated parts….
@tehbanshee13, well, that’s rather simple. First a gloss black enamel in preparation for the Alclad chrome. Then a mix of 85% clear yellow with 15% orange. Used it in the past for the yellow parts on my MG Destiny and MG Nu Ver.Ka. (on the latter it was hand painted, didn’t have an airbrush at the time). The only tricky thing is not to spray too…[Read more]
thanks but i had the idea of what u meant i meant was i was curious to see if u were using that metal powder stuff for the strike freedom because that would be even nicer lol 🙂 but happy building
Hello there experts! Apologies if this has been asked before but how do you paint missile pods in High Grades, those that are molded together? I know it can be done by hand painting but I’d like that to be my last resort. I’m currently painting with spray cans.
Unfortunately hand painting is the way to go for this, unless you want to do a coat of the missile colour then mask each individual missile and paint the base colour over the rest. (or visa versa)
not sure how good reverse wash would work on this but you can give it a try. soak the cotton buds more than what you’d do for a proper reverse wash with the sinanju, for example. this way, the the paint kind of flows down to the base of the pods a little easier and reveal more of the missile pod heads.
It would be tedious but you can use you spray cans. But there still be masking to do and some hand painting. I don’t know if the missile bays and armor parts are separate and if that’s the case you want the inner part of the missile bay a different color then the armor parts. If that’s the case, some more masking must be applied.
Either way, I’d…[Read more]
Assuming you are only talking about that one piece without attached to anything
1) spray the whole piece the color for missiles heads
2) use thinner to thin down the missile base color
3) wet the missile base
4) pour (drop by drop) thinned base color on the base. make sure the piece is flat
5) let it dry
This ‘wash on steroids’ type of technique will be definitely useful on the pods for the Lightning BWS as it is a separate piece. However, it will be more difficult for those in the HG G-Self Assault Pack as it is one solid cavity.
Once you’re done I’d recommend getting an action base and displaying it in a well lit room so that the reflectors really shine.
Aside from that it’s a great build no matter what you do to it.
I also suggest doing panel lines, either with a Gundam Marker or an enamel wash. And a top coat of your liking. Most use a mat clear coat, but a gloss clear could be used as well. Whichever you like the best.
Good luck and happy building!
looks like a 1206 surface mount led
Oh goodie! Another question: can I just buy a LED strip and cannibalize the LED’s? All tutorials I saw just say cut on the prescribed area (to keep the series grouping intact).
never tried to take off a strip,however they tend to burn out when i work on xbox controller