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In my experience, the nozzle tends to clog up very easily. So you might want to clean it off after every use. Shake it well for a good 2-5 mins, and natually do the the light coat method. Enamel from cans can build up in layers and pool extremely easily.

Light coats would be best. Enamel paint can be pretty thick when it dries, and it’s very easy to pool the stuff up when using a can. And I’d spray around 8 inches away. If you feel like it’s covering to much to fast, you can always adjust.

What colors are you using?

Yep, the most tedious part of painting kits. The dreaded sanding. Aye, I don’t miss it. haha. Got any pics? Or are you just prepping the parts? And are you going to paint the whole kit?

very cool

Dude, that is very impressive. Great idea, looks awesome. 🙂

Absolutely brilliant idea and well executed too, I’ll be surprised if this doesn’t place.

Thats really cool, first time ive ever seen someone use paint like that. very nice

I have a question about the paint you used if you don’t mind asking. If I wanted to go for something like that, say on the Unicorns psycoframe, what paint would you recommend? Otherwise, I say you did a damn good job!

woa, awesome and unique idea.

okie, this is just personal exp but, i’ve actually been having some decent luck using future.

i wet the spot first with future, then position the seal (sticker or waterslide), then once in position i dab it down with a bit more, making sure to get along any edges, as the future auto levels, it seems to fill in the edges, pretty much making them vanish.

There are many way to make it work.

I not sure about MicroSol, you might want to do some search on it.

Mark Softer. It work best with mark setter. This is the way how I do it, and I not sure others.
1. Wet the surface, lay your decal on the surface.
2. careful clear the water on the surface and under the decal with a saber brush.
3. then comb…[Read more]

you can try it but I doubt it will work. Gunze, the maker of Mr.Color has different lines one of them is Mr Color Aqueous which is an acrylic paint, but the one normally reffered to as Mr.Color is a water based lacquer paint. if however what you do have is Mr Color Aqueous then I suppose it would work, the problem is I have no idea how to tell…[Read more]

It’s Gundam Color pots. I can read Japanese but nothing about the nature of the paint is written on it.
It only says that it’s semi gloss and has some numbers on it, for instance the blue is “Blue 17” and “CG72”.

Gundam color by Mr. Hobby are all lacquer base. But with more experience modeler, they can see there are normal paint color also a gundam color except normal color is lot more cheaper than Gundam color, lol.
And no, Mr. Hobby Acrylic is nothing special, they don’t need special thinner too. It just a market business. You can thinned down with any…[Read more]

guess I’ll take a crack at this one.

no idea about the water slides but for the future releases, well we won’t know for sure until they make announcements, but we can look at trends and so looking at what’s been released so far they’ve been releaseing kits from seed and seed destiny as well as from the original UC timeline. That said we have…[Read more]

Will they ever be together? ,tune in next time to gits a robot romance!. 😉

there’s a few ways to go about this situation. You could replace the part which is easier said than done outside of japan. You could find a pose you really like and glue it into that pose. You could attempt a repair, judging from the pic you posted pinning maybe the way to go. you can just live with it. or the final option You could turn your…[Read more]

if what I’m seeing is true it looks like the Bandai Premium shop will start taking orders for that on September 25th. Guess we’ll find out more then. I actually looked on their site today after seeing this image and couldn’t find it.

man i want it is ti the same as the other cross bones.

man i want it is ti the same as the other cross bones.

3rd kit already? Wow.

The music with the high speed was priceless. Great to see you got your hands on one Ryan 😀

I loved the transformation music.
Hey Ryan, are you going to apply the decals and bring it back on the show?

nice ryan good job had a question though. like you this was robotech which i saw around the mid to late 90s. my question to you is this in episode 29 if i heard right yamato went out of business? is there any way to get those or is this macross just is same as a yamato? i happen to be looking for either the rick hunter one or skull one

Ditto on the music, ridiculous lol.
In answer to Syd’s question about managing to watch all the Gunpla TV eps, I work odd hours, and was house sitting for 2wks with no real place to do any hobby, no computer and my nephew’s Xbox wasn’t working. I watched a lot of them on my phone. Yes I have no life, arrgh!!!!

I just saw this kit the last time I was in my local hobby shop, I regret not buying it now.

Nice work!!!
I cannot agree more with you, the macross trabnsformable kits are not that great, don´t get me wrong, it is an awesome gimmic, and there are some great works like yours out there, but this beeing a model kit, transformation is almost useless because of the damage the decals or paint will take, also, it sacrifices alot on how the…[Read more]

love this kit

^^ same here! Probably one of my favourite kits that I’ve built. This one makes me want to pick up the other gundams from the seed series. I already have the aegis waiting. Hehe

Looks like you finally finish the decals..nice job..my 1st encounter with the dry transfer dont end well..some decals just made if half way on the surface :p

Looks very neat, to quote a design credo, “Simple yet effective”
The masking will have to be quite accurate, but it will look very good I think.

Haha, that looks pretty cool! At first i thought it was a suit from f90 from the thumbnail. I don’t see a problem with masking, all of those parts with color can be painted separately.

My question is for the lights on the shoulders, how will you deal with redoing the clear red parts?

Like your line art concept. Are you going to arm it with a variant of a proton pack? If so which variant are you going to go for? Classic or Extreme? In addition will you also go for a ghost trap for it?

Love the concept. Painting should be easy as you can paint by part if you plan it properly so no masking required

You could use that knife, but it’s not really the right tool for the job. If you can’t get a special craft knife, medical scalpels also work very well and art shops tend to stock them, and being re-purposed medical equipment they’re cheap. A good pair of snips is also worthwhile too. After trimming the nub, a bit of good sandpaper goes a long way…[Read more]

X-acto knives are like a dollar a piece. Don’t know about refills on the thing but it’s hella cheap. I just bought a full set in a dollar store (well not exactly a dollar store but an equivalent)(foreigner alert) for about dollar fifty. It’s not that great and feels cheap but it’s better than a box cutter. Also it comes with a magnet. So wooo. I…[Read more]

You may find at that temperature, you will get some blotching/mottling. I too live in a cold climate and have issues with clear coating. Warm the can up in warm water (not hot!) and if you can spray indoors eg in the laundry or bathroom, it will make a difference (clear coat should be OK inside). If you have to spray outside, check it first on the…[Read more]