Skull Leader

I can’t find any specific tutorials but what I do is cut the ends of a tooth pick to a very fine point, then paint with that. I’ll do a base coat of the main color then paint on top of that.

What I do is first using a pin wash. Let it flow in all the crevasses which then gives me clear lines to paint within. When it’s cured I use a magnifying glass and use a 5/0 brush for the little details.

What would you have in mind about painting those, tool wise? 000 brushes do the job just fine for me. Just take care of it and it’ll be a great tool for fine work.

Don’t use primer on the frame. Just make sure you wash the parts really good, and your good to go. Primer will create an additional layer that can potentially cause issues when putting the armor pieces on the kit(pieces wont fit properly, gaps between armor sections, etc).

As for your acrylic and enamel order, it depends on how you’re doing it.…[Read more]

well i painted my own zeta 2.0 and it was a pain in the ass. wht i did was basically paint parts that u would see thouroughlt and then paint up the parts u dont really see much in one piece the zeta gundam is avery annoying gundam to take apart so wht i would do is just dont take apart the model as much specifically the body and legs u can check…[Read more]

Hello X,
As to wipe off any excess of the Gundam Marker you could use rubbing alcohol, white spirit or benzine, provided you first had a topcoat on the painted pieces before you started panel lining your kit. I tried it out a second ago for you and it worked fine. Just use a damped cotton swap. If it’s drenched it can take more panel lining off…[Read more]

mattcoats flatten everything u need to gloss coat it without losing the shine even if u gloss coat then matt coat it ull loose the shine

you need to not use the matt at all, matt kills shine that’s pretty much the whole point of it, when you want something to shine you use a gloss coat, think you can even polish that too after and get even more shine, but what you definitely don’t want to do is put anything matt down ontop of your new shiny surface.

Thanks guys ,worked like a charm 😀

depends there are many types .01 .02 .03 .04 .05 all the way up to .2 id recomend going with .02 or .01 for that extra armor

i wouldnt recomend it i dont think itll look good

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well for starters the air brush and compressor, ofcourse are the very basic. but on the airbrush you need to consider if you want single or dual action, I’d recommend starting with a single action and when you’re comfortable with that moving to a dual action.

now then beyond that you’re gonna want an airbrush stand so you can put the airbrush…[Read more]

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Multi-purpose-Professional-Airbrushing-Airbrush/dp/B006HJCP8S/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1409748246&sr=8-6&keywords=airbrush
this is the airbrush kit that i bought dont bother with the siphon feed and the 2mm airbrush just use the 3 mm airbrush its a good starter kit i used it for a while until i upgraded to an iwata

Hi All. Thank you all for your help. You’ve cleared up points and made it a bit easier to choose what brush and compressor to get. Thanks @thebanshee13 for the link to the aribrush set. I’v decided to buy it and give it a go. Again thanks

Its normal. They need to add the kit dimensions to their shipping system before they start sending invoices.

other possibility is that they run out of kits (its set to backordered on the site)

i have the same problem, i hope they didn´t run out of kits before covering all the preorders … 🙁

i just received my payment request 😀

there are a few ways to paint metallic color.
mainly in two ways: (let’s take red and let’s use spray)
1) metallic red spray can (doh~, I know)
2) spray a silver coat, let it dry up, then a clear red on top

for both, remember to shake well.

ahh I see well can’t really do much about the selection you have, but since you asked about metallic red I assume you have that available atleast. if you can then get a blue, silver/white, gold/yellow, and black/grey then you’re pretty much set for most things kits with Gundam in the name.

Also don’t feel that having metallic paints on the kit…[Read more]

You can’t buy the adapters separately. You have to get one of MG Build Fighters kit to get them.

Adding to what @bluecomet said, here’s a list of them. As of this comment the only kits are the MG Sengoku Astray, MG Build Gundam MK-II, MG Build Strike Gundam and the MG Universe Booster.

Oh right, I completely forgot that those existed sorry :P. I think that was only available on release. That’s the only way I know of for 1/100 backpack adapters sorry but you could always use modify pegs yourself to kitbash backpacks if you don’t like the Build Fighter one.

For no brush marks: Really soft brushes. Instead of painting a big area at time, go small, line per line, little per little, but key point is soft. (would usually spray for no mark)
You can always thin the paint a bit first.

Dry brushing is a technique you should try if you didn’t already. You can find many tutorials online.

You can also thin…[Read more]