Final Model-A-Month!

Merry Christmas, everybody!

I have been busy lately with the Holiday rush; working for a retail giant will do that.  Anywho,  I have been hard at work with the little time I have on my final Model-A-Month build.  Seeing as it is Christmas, I thought a white, green, and red theme would be swell!



I'll have in progress posts up soon.  I'll need to finish the posts for the Wing kits first!

1/144 Gundam Wing Project Part 3

All of the parts that needed to be cemented have been done for this posting.  This was where my mistake came to light...  I'll explain in a bit.

All of Deathscythe's parts that were cemented:

Helmet, Duo and his stand, chest, torso, shoulders, upper arms, lower arms, thighs, shins, and feet

Heavy Arms' cemented parts:

Trowa and his stand, chest, torso, shoulders, etc.  The helmet of the Heavy Arms has the best part separation of the 5 original Gundams in this scale.  Likely, this is due to the large red front piece.

Sandrock's parts:

Quatra, etc.  You know what body parts these are.  I know my audience is very smart!

Shenlong's parts

Wufei, the dragon fang arm, etc.

So, I'm sure most of you already saw it.  My fatal miscalculation with the whole black out process.  All of the seam lines are now permanently BLACK!  No amount of sanding will get rid of that and thinner is useless.  The chemically melted and bonded plastic mixed with the black paint and now the "no paint" method I used on Wing Gundam and G30th RX-78-2 won't be of any use on these 4 kits.

So now I will have to figure out the right mixture for the off white plastic used on these kits.  All the 90's kits have this same off white, kinda gray plastic.  I think there's a touch of blue in it too.  I really hate painting anything white.  It just never looks right to me.

Oh well, that's the challenge of the hobby! ^_^

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/144 Gundam Wing Project Part 2

All the parts for the four Gundams in this posting.

Deathscythe:

Runners

Snipped and Trimmed

Heavy Arms:

Runners

Snipped and Trimmed

Sandrock:

Runners

Snipped and Trimmed

Shenlong:

Runners

Snipped and Trimmed

Now, here is where I may have made a mistake, which will be explained in the next posting.

Flat black Testors paint marker.

All of this empty space on the kits needed to be filled in to give some depth to the armor peices when viewed from below.  I call this "black out".

Deathscythe

Heavy Arms

Sandrock

Shenlong

Most of this turned out okay... on the parts I was intending to paint.  On the white though...

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/144 Gundam Wing Project Part 1

I'll be posting all four sets of photos for the Gundam Wing kits at once, to try and keep things short... ish.  Warning: these posts will be picture heavy.

As I built these kits pretty much at the same time, the steps taken are the same for each kit.  Some of these photos are from Photobucket and some are from Flickr.  There will be a size difference in the sets.  Sorry.

First look at Deathscythe and Heavy Arms:





























First look at Sandrock and Shenlong: