Pre-shading is done!

 My white mix was 2 pipettes of 70% Isopropyl alcohol, 4 pipettes of Tamiya white, about 6 drops of clear blue and 3 drops of clear red.

I almost blew up my poor Super Silent 20a compressor. I was definitely running it hard for this session. So I took a break after the first batch to totally disassemble it, top up the oil, and seal some air leaks that it's had since I got it.

Filled shoulders are looking pretty good now.

 

I should have fired up some test sprue, because I have no idea how my red is going to go down on top of all this.

This kit is awesome, recently finished my first MG , the char's zaku II ver.2.0 but this are very impressive and your work came out good.

The only thing from this kit that not convince me is the inner frame, seems to me too squared respect the out look. but even great.

Have I mentioned that I really really suck at using 2-part epoxy putty? It sticks to my fingers, it sticks to my tools, it sticks to the table, It sticks to everything but I want it to stick to. This is why I almost always use no-mix putties when I can.


To explain, I really liked the look of the G-System Sinanju's beam axes, so I'm gonna try to replicate that, instead of the kind of cheap-looking skeletal ones on the MG kit.

Here's my progress on the beam rifle. It's almost ready to go!


And the optics, before a coat of Future.


While I had the Future out, I decided to give a spray to my black parts, And beam-axe blades, since they're getting some decals) as they're going to need to hold up to a lot of abuse/handling/masking/demasking when I get ready to spray the gold!


Oops, maybe I took it too far.


Nope, It's all good.


I forgot to pre-shade the parts that are white (backpack bits and the fuel tanks) guess I'll post-shade em soon. I'm totally out of Tamiya black. Must work on that.

Got my mechaskunkorder today! Spent hours sorting and organizing and such. Everything is a perfect fit except for the thrusters on the calves, which are going to need another 1.5mm clearance. This fortunately is easy to remove from the housing. Shockingly I managed to use all the parts except for 2 short pins, the small foot verniers pack, 2 K-large thrusters and the K-baffles. That's a lot of metal! I also discovered that a mechanical pencil (0.5mm with metal tube) is the perfect and I mean perfect tool for pushing those pins in and out.

smeagol the vile wrote:

Arent ya glad you took my advice and went with the mechaskunk option?  Those parts are amazing, I wish I had the cash for all of their stuff.

 

Yes my paypal acount weeeeeeps. 

 It's going to be a nice day and all, so I'm going to try to get the insides of the bells primed for paint tomorrow. Stil not sure whether I'll leave the baffles bare or paint them white.

Was down for a bit because my airbrush compressor needed parts!

all back now though, and in the meanwhile I've been working on the beam axe handles., as I've wanted them to look more like the G-system Sinanju's, with smooth, body colored panels. So after filling the holes I started adding evergreen sheet styrene. This is complex, as a few attachment points need to stay in order to use it in the various configurations.

Have to cut out the holes that interface with the hand of course.

And filled. I still need to add surface detail, a few more panels for visual interest, prime and pre-paint. woo!

lessons learned: I need a panel line scriber and squadron white shrinks way too much to use as a filler in this application.

I got a package!




It's from Japan!




What could it be?







Gleeeeeeeeee!

smeagol the vile wrote:

Is that a book and an AM weapon?

Verily!

It's all assembled and primed now. Unlike most of the Sinanju, this thing was not so carefully designed and cast, and I had to do some real work to get rid of mold lines. Also, the barrel slides a bit too tightly, I need to loosen things up a little if I want to be able to slide it in and out if I don't want to scrape all the paint off in the process.

Some neat things that weren't revealed about the kit till now:

the bazooka optics combine with the rifle optics for when you mount them together, and it looks pretty badass.

 When you mount the bazooka on the shield, there's a whole new clip for attaching to the forearm (which may just be for the unicorn gatlings, I'm not sure) plus the bazooka handle moves so there's actually something to grip, helping with the whole shield situation in general.

!! This is looking amazing, sorry it took me so long to stumble into it. Looking forward to seeing how the red looks on top of the preshade.