1/144 Gundam Wing Project Part 4

Almost done!  (well, they've been done for a bit, but you know...)  So, the problem of the black seem lines has to be resolved.  I hate painting white.  I know it's most likely due to the fact that I don't have an air brush and I can never find the right shade of white in a spray can!

The 90's Gundam kits all have this slightly blueish gray white plastic.  It's certainly not the new flashy white that Bandai has recently been using.  So, I had to mix up some of my own.

A very teeny, tiny speck of blue and a slightly bigger droplet of gray into some white and we're good.  I can never get good coverage with white, I know that's the nature of the beast, but I really try to avoid painting white.  Anyway, this is Deathscythe's leg, all the white parts for the four kits are painted with this mixture.  Unfortunately, I had to keep making new batches, so some of the parts are ever so slightly different; but you have to REALLY have a good eye to tell that.

Deathscythe got a new paint job all together.  The "dark" blue it's molded in is nowhere near dark enough and it looks a little purple.  A bit of black, a bit of blue, and a touch of gray and we've got something pretty close!  The picture is a little bright because of the sun coming in from the window, it looks good though.

Heavy Arms gets a new red.  Just a little over half flat to a little under half gloss to give it a satiny finish.

Like the Wing Gundam, I chopped off the pegs of the belly so it can be plugged into the bottom of the chest for all four of these kits.  this is Heavy Arms getting some surgery done.

Fits rather snug, even without glue!

I took the liberty of sharpening up that knife for ya, Heavy Arms!  Oh and tell Sandrock I'm heading over to do his heat shortels next!

I detailed up the kits and they were ready for final assembly.  All the eyes and jewel cameras are painted silver with clear green (or red).  All the yellow is now gold and these Gundams are ready to destroy some Leos!

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

Happy New Year! (belated)

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: