Skull Leader

…well im a noob at painting BUT the easiest, safest way for painting is to take the parts of the sprues/runners/trees/sheets or whatever you like to call them BEFORE painting, unless you got matching paint and a brush you’ll have mis-matching nub marks, and…as I learnt the hard way gundam markers of near color are not wise…

I use tamiya…[Read more]

Never happened to me before, I spend HOURS entering my address details thanks to issues I had with ebay in the past (who’d get confused over a 0 in front of a single digit…they thought I wrote 70 backwards, what in the heck :S) and never gone wrong since…

But I also don’t use fed ex and often send angry emails to my local postal service,…[Read more]

I got my stuff on christmas eve! everyone loved their presents. HLJ also refunded me my shipment cost 🙂

Nice foot…whats the problem?

Are those nubs on the inside of the left side armour piece (the 2 things around the middle and then lower part of the long gap going down before it turns inwards)? If so they could be stopping the piece from going into place.

No problem!!! Use regular cement, and sand it over the crack. Afterwards you’ll never see it.

Well I’ll try that then, I will have to pick up some very soon.

I’m like you I will soon try myself on pre shading. I’ve already trained myself on spoons for now.
From all the videos I saw on this I can say that there is two main techniques on pre shading:
– Draw black lines where your shade is then paint over it.
– Paint a darker base color on all the part then highlight it with your normal lighter color…[Read more]

did u clean the surface?

I looked at a scan of the manual and…then I remembered I couldn’t read japanese :S

But I had a friend who could read, 65% White, 35% violet those those lines, could go fluro/ram led’s if you want that full glow effect maybe

The marker is just personal preference

As said, comes down to a matter of preference. A gray line on the white part gives less of a contrast from the white than the black line. Nice subtle effect in my opinion.

FedEx seems to only appear for the pricier shipping options for me to the UK/Ireland… maybe it’s just me?

Many factors apply here, some mobile suits only come in HG, and with your paint skills they could potentially rival mg straight builds in details, hg’s are cheaper while rg’s just have that extra bit of detail that rival mg’s depending on the age.

If you plan on diorama builds hg’s/rg’s are the way to go considering so many variations of the same…[Read more]

Since you are an experience modeler, there shouldn’t be any problem for you moving to another model field. The only different is Game workshop figures are mainly hand painting, blending with minimum airbrush job. But still do ‘battle damage’ like a military, if I not wrong.

Here’s the different. Usually beginner in building Gunpla model either…[Read more]

Thanks for the advice thus far. my fav. gundam is the Deathscythe hell Custom. I am going to try and pick up a version or two of that and give it a whirl. I will try a few different kits and see what I like building. I had my mind set on the 1/100 scale, but after seeing the RG 1/144 and just the sheer variety in that scale, I will probably mostly…[Read more]