Skull Leader

the problem isn’t actually that you sprayed the semi-gloss it’s that you didn’t let it fully cure, it may have seemed dry but that’s not good enough and that’s why it clogged your panel liner.

now then the pencil lining can work aswell what you should do if you’re gonna spray a top coat over that is to do light quick sprays at a bit of a distance…[Read more]

I don’t really see a problem here if all you want is the finish, it’s a simple matte finish, however I suspect you’re after something more than just the finish. What I can see is that he used a silver on the inner frame, and seems to have colored the armor in sort of a real grade style, with two tones on the white, there’s probably some…[Read more]

Hi…bit late but there was no information, latest big kit is the hg neo zeong which is priced as a pg but size wise its bigger, and the blue frame was an onloine exclusive with a bazooka rather than a chromed katana so…yeah, not much on the pg front im afraid :S

Forgot to add, the paints were all tamiya, clear green and chrome silver, was using acrylic over acrylic wise, I used 2-3 coats of silver before 1-2 of clear green and just one of silver would pull the silver off even after an hour :S)

Depends on what the paint is, tamiya comes in many kinds, acrylic enamel and lacquer, I use acrylic which works with water…but advised to use acrylic thinner (I got it mixed up, there is water based acrylics but I don’t think this tamiya is :S)

Not sure about the gaia paints, once you find out what they are you can use the appropriate thinner…[Read more]

can’t recommend a brand really, that’s sort of a preference thing and whether or not they have the color you want, and well sometimes it’s just about whatever you can get your hands on. As for colors well “Red Madder” if your kit has red on it especially if it’s a Gundam suit then it’s probably that. Other than that Bandai seems to like “navy…[Read more]

couldn’t really say about build quality they’re both pretty old kits, they’ll be closer in quality to the mk2 than the other 2 you have, and honestly I’d just go with whichever is your favorite.

That said I have done the wing zero custom but haven’t done the zeta yet and what I can tell you about the wing zero custom is, there is an LED, actually…[Read more]

u want to start out with a good air brush and stick with it. i have the badger krome( amazing air brush) for compressor i would get a iwata power jet plus since it saves space and it come with an build in air tank.

http://dalong.net/review/hg/bf02/p/bf02_m0006.JPG

http://dalong.net/review/hg/ht05/p/ht05_m0006.JPG

The following links are from dalong.net, which is what I check for compatibility between kits, from the looks of it AND as I heard from reviewers the thunderbolt zaku’s are new molds, gonna need some serious modification, if yo want something…[Read more]

An old soft toothbrush and/or a micro fibre cloth

I mean actually painting the stickers, as in the bits of sticky paper.

wait hold on what? You’re gonna put the stickers on the kit and paint over them and this is gonna save you time how? really I’m confused, is that what you meant? really I’m lost here if that’s what you meant. At first I thought you meant you were gonna hand paint the details that the stickers would have given you which would have been awesome if…[Read more]

I’ve never done that, but I have used stickers as ready-cut masks. That works pretty good and saved a lot of time doing the gold on Sinanju’s shield for instance.

Gentei kits are really good for that. They also have a section dedicated to replacement parts.

there is also amazon, at the time was the cheapest solution to getting the hg unicorn phenex.

I also scour japan only shops and sights, I use a proxy service because I lack friends in japan, good for finding rare ones at semi decent prices…I say semi because you gotta pay shipping TO them, THEN BACK to you.

And of course commission…

AND…[Read more]

I know how you feel. I ordered the Vallejo decal medium back in August last year and the whole time it said it was on backorder so I just took it off a week or two ago after I forgot about it. It definitely isn’t normal but maybe they have some items that they never get back in and forget to change the status to discontinued. What item did you…[Read more]