Skull Leader

the same paint thinner you’re using for your paint should work for your primer. also if the surface is smooth you could just sand it down. another note, there is something called tool cleaner, you run that through your airbrush to clean it up after use, don’t get those mixed up, tool cleaner is powerful stuff and will eat the plastic of your kit,…[Read more]

well zeta already has lots of blue on it but I guess you mean the whole thing in different shades of blue, anyways it sort of depends on what effect your going for, but well see my icon….hint hint. ok seriously though if you’re gonna do a blue scheme then megaman is as good a starting point as any.

Proper hobby tapes are better IMO.

to add to that just a bit, regular masking tape can leave behind a sticky residue, the proper stuff is better about that, though I won’t go as far as to say it’ll never happen I’ll say it’s less likely.

I recommend not posting the same thing on different threads, it just annoys people and make them not want to help usually.

as for the high gloss finish, “future floor polish” is the general big recommendation. but just as important as the product is the surface prep, if it’s not smooth it won’t shine.

Painting while it’s snapped isn’t easy unless you modify the parts, some people on youtube (including “theghostofzeon” who was the australian entry for the gundam world cup) do tutorials on this, mostly peg cutting so they can snap kits together and then pull them apart without risking parts damage when pulling it apart again.

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well it really depends on a couple of things. From your question I’m assuming what you really want to know is if you should paint the model assembled or in pieces, so I’ll focus mostly around there. Now then you mention hand painting and a color scheme, now if you’re gonna do some sort of intricate details like hand painting a logo or something…[Read more]

could try ebay and looking up “built” models

Genteikits is currently down, due to the enormous amount of orders they’ve been receiving. Wait on that.

Did you buy the kit from HLJ? If you did, they give free replacement parts for ones broken or defective out of packaging. It’s only for orders placed within the past ten days, though.

Well ,when gentei kits works again its a simple order form (it may change though from what I just seen), order the parts, check emails, then pay the invoice later on, seems odd but it works…but again it may change since now they order the parts like normal customers of bandai replacement parts.

its sort of a combination of a gelgoog 2.0 head on the back with that fin but bumped up with an rx 78 top piece mabe take that off an rx and just glue it onto the top of the gelgoog and bump the fin to the back of it either that or probably scratch build one yea prob scratchbuilding it might make it look more exact

Better off googling italian red and maybe a car so you get an idea of the finish…results may differ depending on skill.

OR if you have it on hand try painting a plastic spoon and see if you like the finish, I gotta get around to doing this, I have the same red…and a rebawoo to try it out on!

White or a silver/gunmetal if you want to go more subtle perhaps.

normally a panel line darkens the line to give the impression of a deeper recess course you can’t do that if things are already black. so normally you’d just ignore it, but with the entire kit being black that’s probably not so appealing of an option. However if you just want to bring attention to the line as a detail then as suggested white or…[Read more]