A bit more of my in progress. finished up a good bit of black for the two color parts. Also some touch up on chrome, just have the last few black paintings. Then final assembly, and this time I won’t miss a joint like I have already done with one leg. So off to dreamland, and rested eyes to make my last push to the end. Good luck with the […] View
Absolutely. Im going to paint it first. My current living conditions prevent me from accessing my airbrush, so im building them then when I can, I will paint and detail them.
Most modellers build em in winter and paint them in summer. My attempt at paint this kit ended in failure. I ended up weathering kit kit so heavily the decals broke. Anyway good luck with yours, are you going with an OOB paint scheme?
Currently working on MG Johnny Riddens zaku. Testing out different non-alclad metallic paints. Tamiya metallic grey is pretty close to magnesium so will be used again in future, tamiya chrome however….ew. Gold parts are vallejo liquid gold, this stuff is damned sexy. Also playing with citadel nuln oil was so excuse any slopiness 😛
compared to alclad old gold, its pretty damned close, I imagine with a nice gloss topcoat it’d look amazing. I got 5 different shades of these liquid golds on sale for about a pound each when modelzone was closing down.
plus apparently you can hand brush the vallejo liquid gold, which is a plus for some. Be careful though, you have to keep it moving in your airbrush as the particles will block your airbrush if left to settle.
The problem I had with tamiya metallics, specifically their gunmetal was inconsistency. Some pieces came out looking great while some would come out looking almost silver. After multible coats I was able to get everything pretty good but it was kind of annoying.
The liquid gold I got was rich gold and I must admit it is pretty nice! Takes some…[Read more]