Adding Panel Lines with a Fine tipped Brush
Not only panel lines can be made with a Gundam marker, but can also be done with a fine tipped paint brush and some paint. Make sure there is plenty of water and a small dab of paint and carefully add the paint carefully to the panel lines. Let the paint slide along within the panel lines. View
I’ve made some progress! First stage weathering is done. 1-2 more stages left to go on all the parts.. .then I have to assemble it all – which is going to involve a bit of luck and a lot of hope.
Snapped together my KG-6 Sleipnir kit! Was a lot of fun to do something other than Gundam. Ends up being about as tall as an average MG kit, and while there is great molded…
Yeah, will definitely be doing some sanding, but I’m wanting to do some paint/weathering too. Maybe make it look a but battle scarred, as this mech seemed to get pretty well used and abused on the show.
I completed these two kits a bit ago. The ikaruga kit was my first time adding a bit of paint and using waterslides. I feel like the kotobukiya kits pushed me into trying out…
Thank you for sharing, and you did a wonderful job on the paintwork. I have these kits myself too, but I haven’t had the courage to start painting. Did you paint this with airbrush or paintbrushes? The kit is excruciatingly small, and I obviously had to glue some of the parts. Dunno if it’s possible to pre-shade.
All I did with them was hand paint the details with enamels, gloss clear coat krylon acrylic, panel line wash enamel, matte coat with krylon acrylic. Take the plunge. Even if it doesn’t turn out the way you want its a learning experience. I’m buying an airbrush set this week, so I expect some failures on the way! Thanks for the encouragement.
Looks like we are in for a treat with the new 1/100 Reborn one-hundred grade , the first kit will be Nightingale ! Cant wait for the show report to get more details.
a very old F4U4 from Academy, built almost 15 years ago, had a light cure to train me to new techniques… still missing the gun sight, too lazy to make it by now…
and goodies for future tarmac scenes, and the beginning of a build on SBD4 from Accurate Miniatures…
Thank you Aaron.Mai !
This one is an old Academy mold, not accurate… it was for training me to aero and dry pigments essentially…
Got others Tamiya Corsairs to build, I want them to be far better than this one… work to do with CMK’s ultra detail parts for some of them ^^
The build that almost “killed me” :), Testor’s 1/48 SR-71 Blackbird – gears up.
I’ve added True Detail’s cockpit – which I regret later since not much can be seen with closed canopy.
Initially, I wanted to build a hi-vis version but the decals deteriorated once it touches the water. I gave the decal sheet a layer of clear coat and switch to…[Read more]
I like the work that your showing with this Blackbird. I don’t know if you build any Gundam kits, but another modeler built a Blackbird plane with a Zeta Plus C1 into one model kit, and it also transforms into a plane too.
Thank you! I originally started out as Gundam modeller :). Now I have expand my interest into other genres, mainly aircraft. I’d love to see the said Zetaplus C1. Do you have any links of the work?
Here is a WIP update.
Like I said in my previous WIP, I’m a very slow builder.
After almost a month, I finally finished the build on my Nu Gundam Ver. Ka.
I still need to build the weapons and the funnels.
This kit is bigger then the average MG that I have.
Super awesome 🙂
Haha, thanks for considering me a worthy opponent 😀
But I noticed there are a lot of people building this kid. so we will be having a lot of rivals here 🙂
Work in progress of my nu Gundam rx93, so far i have finished custom painting my kits waist and shoulders with Flat grey, Flat metal grey, with some Chrome silver part, and i added a picture of a drawing of my rx93 i made a while back ago, and also a picture of my home made spray booth i made out of a shoe box since im kinda tight on money at…[Read more]
The thing is I wear a spray mask to keep from breathing the spray fumes. Some times I have a fan to blow out the fumes. For now I have to use this untill I can buy a real good pro spray booth ;/
The problem is, you can burn your hair right off if something goes wrong, and it could pretty easy. Burning your hair and eyebrows would be the least of your problems to be honest. 😀 Burning down everything else would. I have a window open right over my head while working but still I’m not al that comfortable while cleaning and flushing my air…[Read more]
W.I.P 2# I have put together the torso, with the beginning of the back pack, because I just thought it was looking empty… I have also, done a clear gloss core on the inner frame to make it shine more, I have then put on the decals that I wanted and then flat coated the armour parts and re-built it…. I then using a gold marker( Uni Paint…[Read more]
Looks solid from my view. I can’t tell if it’s just smudges on my comptuer screen or not but maybe touch up the numb mark on the gold V on the head and the panel lines on the fore arms. I can’t tell if its numb marks or panel line issue but it looks like 3 squares on it? I’m just nit picking to help ya out, on the whole it looks amazing.
thanks for the tips, the three squares on the right fore arm…. are nub marks i’ve tried and tried to get rid of them as much as i can and the flat coat as helped a lot as when i was panel lining the grey it kind of rubbed off on them and made them stand out:/ but its as good as i can get it, without ruining it. but i appreciate your help. I…[Read more]
Ok so in my last post, I decided I was going to paint the inner frame on the runner. In preparation for it I’ve been doing some research and watching various vids and reading some other’s peoples experiences. I’ve learned that in the areas where movement is needed, paint can make the joints extremely stiff and…[Read more]
All the lighting is installed in my hunter killer, I used the kits clear parts on the stabiliser and sanded flat a blue and red led to fit in the stabiliser, they make the clear parts glow enough for it to be noticed.i have wored up yhe stand with the power wires.
I fitted 2 small pieces of metal in the hunter killer where the stand is inserted…[Read more]
Thanks guys. It was a really amazing kit never regret getting him. I am planning to top coat it but I am not really sure what top coat should I use. :0
I need to look at some of those contest entries myself. Some good artworks.