not so much a build but more an attempt at a restoration/resurrection of a kit made back in 1987. gunna ditch the fibre optics and the awful silver paint
yup its an old AMT kit. I’ve ripped out all the optics and having a go at making some replacement decals. the old halogen bulbs are definitely going in the bin, i have no idea how they didnt melt the kit or burn a house down. trying to drill out the windows but they are tiny, narrow and im only getting about 10 window to a snapped drill bit at…[Read more]
Initial test build completed. Now it’s time for disassemble and trying seam line removal for the first time. Then I’ll need to decide on a paint scheme followed by my first attempt with an airbrush.
Gonna start on my first kit bash. Gonna put the shoulders from the Kimaris onto the High Mobility Zaku II. We will see if I can just do the shoulders only or will I have to swap out the entire arm units too. This is gonna be fun.
well nearly done my 3rd painted kit and i wanted a shiny sazabi. thought about doing this kit for the plamo comp, but glossy sazabis are pretty common on the net so i tried something different………now for 200 friggin decals
What was planned, as an simple paintjob over a weekend, turned into a decent build, that takes me two weeks by now. Can’t tell what all went wrong with this thing. From a…
I forgott to mention that I avoided masking after that first try and sparyed everything freehand and I did this with the 0.4 needle, that I use for cleaning, installed in the 0.2 setup of my spraygun. And I wondered, why I had to clean the nossle after each part and controlling the colorflow was so difficult…
there is agentle,wathering on it, thats why I primed with black and put a silver coat under the actual basecolor. I went over all the edges with sanding paper. It is a very gentle weathering, but thats how it suoposed to be. If I feel like adding some scraches on the flat surfaces I will just scratch it, but this is sokething that is done on the…[Read more]
is it the AMT kit. I once built several,from their series for a friend and never finished tbe 1701D. Looing forward to yours.
yup its an old AMT kit. I’ve ripped out all the optics and having a go at making some replacement decals. the old halogen bulbs are definitely going in the bin, i have no idea how they didnt melt the kit or burn a house down. trying to drill out the windows but they are tiny, narrow and im only getting about 10 window to a snapped drill bit at…[Read more]