Apologies for the poop quality photos my phone doesn’t seem to like my work area. I messed up while trying to cut my head part to fit but it may have been for the better as now I can make the face and the added head parts seperate so I can paint the eyes easier.
Finished snapping with the exception of the head. I will get to that later. Now just disassembling to prime and paint. I’m still trying to decide between an all white with gold and grey highlights scheme or for a purple and white with gold highlights scheme.
Question for this community:
Does anyone know a good way of keeping decals on the kit without using “Top Coat” or “Paint”? Currently, I am using a bit of sticky glue to keep those buggers on and it seems to be working.
I often use RG decals, they stay on pretty well, they just need to be applied on a relatively flat and clean surface. Glue works fine but the places around the decals often have excess glue that need sanding.
Mr Mark Setter is used to make sure that decals stick on. However, if ur decals won’t stick because of a not flat surface it’s highly recommended that u use mr mark softer/tamiya mark fit as it helps decals melts so that it can conform to the surface it’s sticked on. I’ve personally never heard of issue with decals that won’t stick to flat…[Read more]
Mr Mark Softer & Setter are actually quite common u should be able to find them pretty much easy in most hobby shop. I’ve never tried Tamiya Mark Fit but it should do the job well.
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The RG Strike Freedom is great, if you have trouble posing the dragoons add a little glue around the joints that hold the dragoons in place (make sure its the one you cant see when they are pulled out partially, or if you decide to display them off the strike freedom ignore that part) I still haven’t gotten around to tightening the joints on my…[Read more]
I have built this kit before and here are some problems I encountered:
1: The connection from the waist to the hip is not as firm as the other RG kits.
2: Like Seanzilla said, be careful of the gold plated parts, but also the glossy red parts too. You will see when you do the arms.
3: The slot connection for the backpack to the body it is not a…[Read more]
thanks I just finished the main waist section and have been really trying around the gold parts though nub marks are always a problem so I’m making sure to take my time. thanks again your comments really help
One more thing I forgot to mention, you might have a lot issues posing this guy when you are doing your photo shoots. You have to be “creative” and find “innovative” way around pose this guy. I leave it to your imagination. ;P.
For ages I struggled with what to use for the eye/head part combined with my fear of messing up and wasting the part when I stumbled upon a hip armour piece for the exia R2 that’s almost perfect, and there’s two of them so I have room for error. Still got a lot of work to do on the piece though
Airbrush and spray paint to me is the same. Unless if you’re using the airbrush for precision painting and weathering then it’s one and the same in the use of skill.
For the record, it was mentioned that painting is an intermediate category skill.
nicely done!