The little white particles you see are due to the Tamiya Pearl Clear’s metallic effect that I used for top coat in addition with the metallic paint. They are revealed with the flash of my smartphone.
First time I use this top coat and at my surprise it has exactly the shiny effect I wanted in addition to a nice metallic effect.
Ive got this kit and I feel as though I need to paint it, the HD colors just don’t do it for me, I’ve been thinking of doing extra finish on him with orange and blue or switch it out for black as I liked the 2nd runner version on Jehuity quite a lot. suffice to say I’ll be keeping a eye on this to see how the blue works.
I just got these a few minutes ago: Metal Gear Rex, Vic Viper, X-Wing and RG Zaku 2.
But before I start those I have to finish first the Jehuty and a 1/48 De Havilland Dragon for my father.
In the south of france the light is so powerful during the summer at midday that I have to put the settings of my smartphone on dark otherwise the picture would be overexposed. Plus the box of the Metal Gear Rex is printed in silver colors witch is difficult to get on photos.
And Philip is your X-Wing already finished? I’d love to see pictures of it, it could help me doing mine even if I have some ideas already on how to build and paint this kit. I ordered also a weathering set with smoke only for this one.
Yup I opened the box to check the content. That’s my first Fine Molds kit and yes, they deserve their name! The parts have full of details, the water decals are really nicely done and like on Ryan’s Millennium Falcon the manual shows very precise instructions for building and painting.
@streum13, yes I was impressed by the details too. Bought a panel wash cos I will go nuts if I actually do the panel lines with a gundam panel lining marker lol.
Use is it for RG too. I bought Tamiya’s Panel Line Accent Color black and grey for my first RG because they are too tiny to fill them with a Gundam panel line marker.
Now I use that for all my panel lining, just using the marker for little details sometimes or if I missed a panel line previously.
What country are you from Tobi? Got those from japan to france on around 10 days since the shipment notification with a delay of one day due to customs.
Je vais mettre celui là en anglais pour que tout le monde comprenne 😉
I had to order those by Fedex because HLJ didn’t proposed me the boat option. I had only Fedex and EMS available. Maybe the box was too big for shipment by boat, I don’t really get it. 😛
I’m building the Jehuty HD Edition from Kotobukiya.
I’m just came back from Japan Expo in Paris and now in my house in south of France. I started it a bit just before leaving for the capital and I’m now continuing it.
I wanted to do a metallic and shiny version of it so I’m painting it with those Tamiya cans:
– Light Metallic Blue
– Champagne…[Read more]
Thanks for the reply, your panel lines are really well done on this one.
It will be the first time I’ll do my own panel line paint as I usually use Tamiya panel line paints. Now all I have to do is dig up my old enamel paints hopping to find white and blue in there. I’ve already saw the tutorials for this but it showed only black. So before I…[Read more]
My RG RX-78-2 in the most dynamic pose I could think of without it falling backwards due to the weight of it’s bazooka. I had to use on the feet to keep the kit straight what we call in france Patafix. You know this sticky clay thing used usually to pin posters. I use it a lot for masking or sticking the pieces for painting on sticks.
The little white particles you see are due to the Tamiya Pearl Clear’s metallic effect that I used for top coat in addition with the metallic paint. They are revealed with the flash of my smartphone.
First time I use this top coat and at my surprise it has exactly the shiny effect I wanted in addition to a nice metallic effect.
nice detailing 🙂 love the metallic blue silver combo
thanks ^^
Ive got this kit and I feel as though I need to paint it, the HD colors just don’t do it for me, I’ve been thinking of doing extra finish on him with orange and blue or switch it out for black as I liked the 2nd runner version on Jehuity quite a lot. suffice to say I’ll be keeping a eye on this to see how the blue works.