I just started watching Gunpla TV about 3 months ago and I wanted to say thank you for giving me the final push into modeling again! It’s literally been…
Don’t use flat coat on a chrome kit, there aren’t many top coats that work well with a metalized kit either, I have heard mention of an alclad top coat, but I don’t know if that works on kits that have been painted with a high gloss chrome paint, or plated kits as well?
I’ll have to experiment with the runner remains with that alclad top coat, thanks for the heads-up! Cheers. I just finished the MG Infinite Justice and it turned out AMAZING and I placed majority of the decals on it. Now Im debating if I want to go further with that one
Well it had nothing to do with being THAT guy, I watch Gunpla Tv for the Gunpla. Its cool to see other kinds of kits(like cars) but that’s not why I sit through the vids. They show other cool kits when they can but that’s just it, not enough new different stuff for a show case 🙁
I have a MG X10A Freedom (my 1st gunpla build ever) and it ran into a problem.
When I got it, after washing the sprues, the first thing I did was to ‘protect it’ with Tamiya Semi-Gloss (TS-79).
That’s where, I believe, the problems began.
I was using the gundam panel liner pens to do panel lines, however, the pens died really…[Read more]
There’s definitely an interaction between top-coats and various pens we can use for panel lining: http://www.graemenattress.com/wp/panel-lining/ – so what I’ve ended up using is a combination of an oil-paint panel line wash over the gloss top coat, or careful use of a Rapidograph technical pen.
So I recently tried submitting my Gundam RX-78-2 hoodie design to a cosplay group on ebay, and was unfortunately tuned down. Kind of bums me out a bit, but I guess the design…
@GN thank you, Still extremely rough around the edges. Dare I say the swords are going to take a few hours to file, finish and polish. Hopefully they will look shiney 🙂
Hi everyone, I think I stumbled upon the new RG – Char’s Z’Gok, but also the normal Z’Gok! The pictures are attached. I will be making my pre-order soon!
Honestly that looks like it’s just a custom in RG style. Bandai would be unlikely to deviate so far from the original design with those claws.
Still looks awesome though!
Yeah, it’s still in the prototype stage but they’ve released a price of 25000¥ (unless someone can correct me as I read 27000¥ somewhere else). So yeah. Big spenders have fun.
Don’t use flat coat on a chrome kit, there aren’t many top coats that work well with a metalized kit either, I have heard mention of an alclad top coat, but I don’t know if that works on kits that have been painted with a high gloss chrome paint, or plated kits as well?
I’ll have to experiment with the runner remains with that alclad top coat, thanks for the heads-up! Cheers. I just finished the MG Infinite Justice and it turned out AMAZING and I placed majority of the decals on it. Now Im debating if I want to go further with that one
Okay so the Alclad top coat is ALC-600 AQUA GLOSS, but I have no idea how it behaves on a metalized coated plastic.
Thanks for the heads-up!