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Thanks for the recommendation. I definitely will look up for it.

LOL.. I knew it! From many of your responses in this forum, I always have a feeling that you’re somewhat ‘experienced’. 😀 I sometimes have a suspicion that you might be one of the judges, sent here to watch us beginners doing the competition. LOL. But maybe I went overboard with this suspicion. 😛

But really dude! You’re cool. Thanks for telling…[Read more]

An amazing zaku and an amazing booster will be double amazing. 😀 I love this zaku. I want to get one, but I’m waiting if Bandai would release the MG version of this kit.

Nice! When I built mine, I was following the manual. So I didn’t have the chance to document the ‘naked’ version of this kit. 😀

By the way @Bossguy, now that I’m thinking and start to taking your point. I think maybe it will be much better that I spray the inner frames and the hands that were made from ABS, first with Tamiya surface primer. Then I can spray them with synthetic lacquer. Yeah, I didn’t thought about this before. But maybe for safety and to make the kit last…[Read more]

Thanks a lot for your answer! Yes it is very helpful. I learn new things in here.

I will play around more with this lighting. I probably will try to get another desk lamp. I also understand about your reason on black background. Because you don’t want to have a reflective background, so you chose black instead of white. Smart! But I think it is…[Read more]

Thanks! But I would say, Yes you can paint your kit like this. It is extremely easy. I’m also a beginner. So you can take my word. 😀 The only thing I did is just put some weathering and then seals it with a coat. And I think this is what most people here are doing. They do something with their kit and then put a coat (either flat or gloss) on top…[Read more]

Really?? Thanks for sharing this info. It made me go for searching on Google on this matter.

I found some stores mention that it is useful for ABS plastic. Here I show you two of these links:

http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/1272_1_1009111.html
http://www.familyland.com.au/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=162_281_282

And when I went to some forums,…[Read more]

Really “Lafressia”? And here I’m always thinking that the name is “Rafflessia”. LOL.

Yeah, those seals are terrible, which is why I decided to avoid it.

Thanks! The weathering indeed boost the appearance of the kit. I’m really happy that I’m doing it. 🙂

The shiny gunmetal on two gigantic hands may look strange for some others, LOL. But I think it is the proper color and I like it too. When I see this picture: http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/File:RX-78-2_(4).jpg , I just couldn’t think of any color…[Read more]

Yes! I use Soot from tamiya weathering master set B. It is really just that, nothing else. I used q-tips and I found it very effective. I think I used up around 20 q-tips just for this, LOL. And don’t worry if you apply too much. Just like panel line marker, they are easy to remove with eraser.

Nice, that’s the spirit! 😀

Good luck! Will you also add the amazing booster for this kit?

Thanks! This kit is awesome. I think it’s worth to be in anyone’s MG shelf. 😀 Even though some people regard it as the ‘bigger’ scale of the RG, but this is still an MG with all the beauties of an MG kit.

Well, actually yes, the hands were painted with gunmetal. But then I painted them with glossy coat.

What you see in the pictures at the third row are arms (including hands) that were painted with gloss coat. But the hands (and inner frames) were already painted with gunmetal. The three pictures in the last row are showing the whole kit that…[Read more]

Really cool! Then may I ask a couple of questions? Hope you don’t mind. 🙂 Do you use your camera flash? Or do you use external lighting? By the way, what do you think is better? A white background or black background? I see that you’re using black, but most others are using white. What is your consideration when choosing background?

And by the…[Read more]

Thanks for the praise! I’m really happy that the shades really comes out nicely. Feel free if you have comment or advice. I always want to improve my results. 🙂

Thanks! Yes, the hands also painted with clear gloss. But this still not the end result. If you have advice, you’re very welcome. 🙂