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
Well since there are no decals for the chassis of the tank (at least for the version im doing). I tried doing the weathering of it. I think it still needs some improvements….
The decals look like they’re cut pretty close to the graphic which often hints towards waterslides. If you try bending the decal sheet you can see if the decals peel off a bit or not to see if it’s peel-off or waterslide.
Yes it requires glue. I had to use tape to hold some pieces when i was deciding on how to modify them for easier painting. Also i managed to glue in the left manipulator wrist while i was doing the forearm.
There were also some problems with some parts not fitting correctly. In my case that was the head. Had to fill some seams on the bottom of…[Read more]
Well. End of work till monday. Run out of clear coat while doing x-1 (and it led to some disaster) so ill get it next week and fix it. Back to Zaku Tank. Had some trouble with…
Well since somehow i managed to have a somehow free weekend i decided to work more on the Zaku Tank. Earlier this week i did the clear coat and the hair spray treatment (but…
Well after a couple weeks of building and painting its done the PG wing zero I would have finished it a couple days ago but I was waiting on the waterslides from samuel decal ,they worked really well
Finished the LED work on the Sinanju!Sorry for the pics, my cam cant seem to handle the glare of the LEDs. Used groups of 4 LEDs with 1 Ohm resistor and a 12V power supply….
That looks great man. funny that your next project is the nu ver ka since i will be building that one next myself and i plan on some serious LED work and a custom paint job. i think ive decided on the pink and green scheme for it. im looking forward to see your progress on the nu.
@Nick, no it wasn’t hard to install the LEDs, infact it was fun-I used a 12V GP 23AE battery to test each group of LEDs. I didn’t solder the connections but used conductive glue after having coiled the ends of wires tightly, then I dropped power glue to strengthen the bonds. I also bonded part of wires to the frame so that there is no stress on…[Read more]
Wow thanks for that. I’m thinking about using an HGUC Unicorn (unicorn mode) for this, mainly putting one in the head and one on each backpack thruster. Do you think that this would be any more difficult being smaller with no inner frame? Or easier being mostly hollow?
Infact this was supposed to prepare me to build the Nu ver ka. I was thinking about putting much more LEDs in the Nu, but now I am thinking on how to put minimum LEDs. The psychoframe should be “glowing” and not lighting up like like a christmas tree. I want to achieve the same glowing effect as when blacklight is used-a homogenous glow.
I haven’t built an HG, but if it is hollow, yeah, it’ll be easier to place the LEDs and not many will be required for the psychoframe. But as for the thrusters you will have to look for 1 or 2mm colored LED as the 3mm will be too big.
Am sure you’ll make an awesome work. Do post your work.
The chest is done and this kit seems to building quite nicely. I feel that it is screaming for a LED light job and based on what i have seen inside the chest it looks very workable.
I was afraid that the clear version armor would look a bit boring compared to the normal white but I’m happy to be proven wrong.
Is the inner frame plain grey or is it different for this version?
I was also happy to that the clear parts look good on the kit. It looks like the frame on this kit (or a good chuck of it at least) is done in a gloss injection style. Very similar to the RG trans-am exia that I build a few months back
The little woman bought me the MG MS-14s Gelgoog for my 35th. so far the frame is together.. i might leave it this way.. such a nice frame, better looking than the Zaku…
Ps, I only paint the inner frames. No detailing. On all heavy industrial equipment all the components are sprayed in one color, this only to prevent rust. Pistons and e.g. drive belt of course not. So I follow that trend, as a giant robot is a huge piece of military equipment. But that is just my opinion…
i like to do some detailing on the frames but it really depends on the kit for me. my next big build will be rather extensive with the level of inner frame detailing but its still in the planning stages at this point. I agree with teetee about “undercoating” of industrial machinery so i will be going with one or two flat grey colors for the frame…[Read more]
id really like to see how you work pink into the nu-gundam. please keep us updated on that.
thanks for telling me how you go about it. i was thinking of just detailing it without any kind of finish coat.
Very nice frame! I have my gelgoog on the way! I like to add nice little details to give the kit more life! i dont paint the frame tho but i do detail pistons, ankles, elbows and thrusters! The gelgoog has a lot of thrusters and I just keep dreaming about what i’ll be doing with them.
Its true to a degree. The moment when they are out of the factory and they are serviced by mechanics the one color goes away due to various reasons. The chances of the spare part having the exact same color are slim (more than one factory building the suit is one example), also sometimes parts of different suits are used for repairs. Not to…[Read more]