Hi! im the new guy and i have some questions...

Thanks! im happy to be here too.

those are nice!! Welcome to FSM

i always print out the most useful articles so i can referance them, and i scanned the site it does have alot but i wanna do the best i could. so its off to read! lol

QUOTE: Originally posted by The Nox thanks man, well i will read all the articles before work on my next resin kit. wich would proabably be beldandy laying on the beach.

Nice Kit.

Most of the techniques that Cody uses are very standard and the Info is available from a variey of sources.
There is a lot ot read on Cody'S page so take your time and maybe print out a few sections for reference.

thanks man, well i will read all the articles before work on my next resin kit.

wich would proabably be beldandy laying on the beach.

http://www.gremlins.com/jim_bertges/first.html

QUOTE: BTW, the 2nd link I sent you(Cody's page) is a very good link, he really improved his website since I last spoke to him.

QUOTE: Here is a site that has the most decent info I have found so far(too many talk about what THEY did/their experience and don't really describe the techniques used): http://www.sharexperiences.com/picforum/displayimage.php?album=2101&pos=0

both links you put in are the same link to the pic of my GM sniper that is beat up, i would love to check out the other site you ment to put.

QUOTE: It's been years since I modelled in sub-zero degrees(fully air-conditioned now), I know that humidity level and air-pressure will affect your paint finish and drying time. So if you combine that with sub-zero temperatures it could produce such a result. Naturally will also depend on the paints you use acrylics have a lower surface tension than enamels.

i use Tamiya paints but this never happened, not even last winter when the weather was ruff. well thanks for the help on this i just dont know whats causing it.

Ooops. don't know what happened with the linkto Cody's page:

Here is the correct one:

http://codyscoop.com/gk.shtml

His Kits are nicely finished, but we don't see eye to eye on a few points.

QUOTE: Originally posted by The Nox ohhhhhh Takuji Yamada. i didnt reconize the name, cause im no good with names, but i recognized his face. He makes killer dios i seen one he did of the RX-78 Gundam was sooooooooo sweeet, when i find my mag. i will scan the pic and show you.

The Dio is in the Book too. Stood next to a few of his Dios and could check them out at a vert close distance, my LHS still got 2 of his on display.

QUOTE: on another note, your the only one with a pulse cause no one would help me with this question. Does cold weather effect the way paint dries or ages? cuase here in NY its been an abnormally cold winter, and when ever i leave a peice to dry the finish is all cracked. its frusturating and is there any thing i could do to fix this or prevent this?

It's been years since I modelled in sub-zero degrees(fully air-conditioned now), I know that humidity level and air-pressure will affect your paint finish and drying time. So if you combine that with sub-zero temperatures it could produce such a result. Naturally will also depend on the paints you use acrylics have a lower surface tension than enamels.

QUOTE: PS: today i had a killer dio idea im gonna do some sketches and upload them to show you.

Sure, go ahead always interested in sharing ideas and brainstorming on how to do things and achieve effects.

BTW, the 2nd link I sent you(Cody's page) is a very good link, he really improved his website since I last spoke to him.

ohhhhhh Takuji Yamada. i didnt reconize the name, cause im no good with names, but i recognized his face. He makes killer dios i seen one he did of the RX-78 Gundam was sooooooooo sweeet, when i find my mag. i will scan the pic and show you.

QUOTE: Here is another good site: http://www.sharexperiences.com/picforum/displayimage.php?album=2101&pos=0

whats this about? thats just my crappy picture. lol, did you mean something else?
on another note, your the only one with a pulse cause no one would help me with this question. Does cold weather effect the way paint dries or ages? cuase here in NY its been an abnormally cold winter, and when ever i leave a peice to dry the finish is all cracked. its frusturating and is there any thing i could do to fix this or prevent this?

thanks again.

PS: today i had a killer dio idea im gonna do some sketches and upload them to show you.

Here is another good site:

http://www.sharexperiences.com/picforum/displayimage.php?album=2101&pos=0

I make most of my trees from Wirebundles, one of the Architect supply companies over here sells them specific for that purpose.

IMHO, making a good Dio has more to do with an artistic eye than modelling skill, got tons of drawings of planned dio's that most likely will never be done.
Kinda like painting a picture at times you have take artistic licence and change things a bit to get a better end-result. Your RGM78 used a very good idea and looks good.

Not sure which Book you are talking about, the one book i mentioned here is as follows:
http://www.hlj.com/cgi-perl/hljpage.cgi?HBJYMT
He is really good and his works cover a wide variety of genres, the book is a collection of his works.

Websites about building Resin Kits, there are few good ones in english and most of them barely cover the basics.
If you can get hold of try to get Japanese modeling books like the:
1.) Max Watanabe Book,
2.) Nomo-ken,
3.) Replicant.
They have TONS of pictures and you can figure what they are doing without being able to read Japanese.
Most of those books cover material description, basic techniques, resin kits and in cases even go into scultping, mold making and casting parts and figures.

Also try to get hold of the introductionary Books by Tamiya, Gunze Sangyo & Wave for their own products.

Here is a site that has the most decent info I have found so far(too many talk about what THEY did/their experience and don't really describe the techniques used):

http://www.sharexperiences.com/picforum/displayimage.php?album=2101&pos=0

If you get stuck or got a question feel free to ask here or drop me an e-mail, I have found that doing a mecha resin kit is different from a Figure resin kit and not all techniques apply equally.

wow thas kool, i'd love to check your site when its done and all.

The tree is straight from the box, like i said im no good at dio's, but i didnt want to do the bazooka and have it on my shelf so it does give it some thing.

MAD i seen on one of your other post about dio's about a book, i dont rember the name of the book but it was in the post about motion in the tires. is that book printed in english? also do you know any web sites for some help with resin kits, i've only done two resin kits and could use some help, once again thanks.

well i have more kits to show but lets save some for another time

For Pics of my Kits you will have to wait a bit, still making changes to my web-site
and also planning to reshoot some pictures.
Also I got a move upcoming and bit by bit finished and unbuild kits, tools are disappearing into moving
Boxes.
Haven't done a gundam kit in a good while now.

The RGM 78 looks nice, Tree I guess is from the Model railroad store. Your grass could use a bit of work.
Another thing I like to do bases paint the edges black, rather than showing the plain wood.

I use 2 types of pens for line markings:
1.) 0.5mm permanent ink markers (might be like your micron), tidy up by using an eraser.
2.) Gundam Water based marker, this one has a bigger tip, draw on, count to 7 and wipe excess off.
Normally don't bother with washes.

Doing realistic trees for a Dio is a tough and long process, it can take a few weeks to finish a
good tree from scratch.

BTW, most of my Kits are brush-painted leaving the airbrush for weathering and other works.

thanks, alot of other people told me the panel lines were too thick, but at the time i was using micron pens to do panel lines until i learnd what a wash was. the "dirt" is actually supposed to be burn marks because the GP-02A is a space suit for the most part, i figured the constant entry and exit of atmosperes would produce burns on the armor.

heres another pic because i like to share . these are some pics of my RGM-78. i used all the things i learned to do this kit, i gave it a wash for panel lines, weathering effects on the armor to simulate paint chipping, rust, oil leaks and mud on the feet. i used cotton balls painted with smoke gray to simulate a shot fired from the bazooka.

PS: im no good a dioramas so if you got any tips i would love to listen and learn. please excuse my sad atempt lol.







i would love to see some of your kits.

Not a bad Kit.

A few things I think could be improved:
1.) Your panel-lines seem a bit heavy and too dark, I prefer dark grey over black lines less of a contrast,
plus dirt is normally gray not black.
2.) Your weathering with the airbrush seems to be a bit too heavy and excessive, parts of the model appear
too clean for some of the stains.
3.) Not enough battle damages, dents, chipping and holes of that level of weathering.

Overall impressive for your first airbrushed Kit, adding good battle damage to one of those
Gundam kits is quiet a task.

Not sure what technique you used for the panel-lines, but there seem to be a few that appear
to be the norm over here and appear to work well.

thanks mad, the thing is i did put rust on but i only had brushes at the time and very little experience, its there but hard to see, this pics shows the first kit i airbrushed.

my GP-02A what do you think?

Kit looks nice.

Personally I would add a bit of rust to make it even more damaged and
older/derelict.

Check the forums, there are many threads about this problem.

One member also has a site where you can upload pictures to., details are given.
One word of warning, your images will got into a temporare upload library
and than be moved their "permanent" location, don't link to it while it is in the upload
location as it will be moved from there and the link will become invalid.

Most good ISP will give a little bit of serverspace to allow you to host your own web-site,
this is what I am using both for my web-site and the webring.

gahhh thas my pic how u do that and why it wont work for me?

well it was my pic, i seen it there before but its not there no more....

Lets try this, but a good chance it might not work:



Hmmm, though so anothre site that is blocking links to images on it.

i cant get the pics up!!! what picture hosting site do you guys use and is it free?

please can some one help me....i wanna share but they wont let me!

WOW, sounds like alot but i never run away from a challange, sounds hella good, now my mission is to save up the cash. thanks for the info MAD its always welcomed.

so whats on everybodys work bench now?

me im working on a 1/100 nu-gundam im about half done with it, i expect to be finished by the end of next week.

QUOTE: Originally posted by The Nox you have that kit mad? so can you tell me is it as great as it looks or is it just a pretty box? cause if its that good, my birthday is next week and i will get it.

The Kit like all the PG Kits has tons of parts, lights included and a few areas I dislike.

Again like with all the Gundam Kits it builds nice straight out of the box, but will definately benefit from putty, and a nice paint job.
If you just want to snap the kit together better calculate 3 days for cutting,cleaning and snapping parts.
If you want to build it up nicely, paint it and so on calculate a few weeks or even months.

The PG Kits are BIG and HEAVY, you will need a fair amount of display space for the. The GP01 can be asembled in one of 2 variants ergo lots of pieces that won't be attached to either Version, hence the "maintenance frrame" that holds all the unused parts and allows you to display them nicely.

The Frame is a bit crude and clunky to be used as is in a Diorama.

If you got the cash, space to display it (3ocm tall) and are not intimitated by a kit with 1252 parts incl. lighting components than go for it.

you have that kit mad? so can you tell me is it as great as it looks or is it just a pretty box? cause if its that good, my birthday is next week and i will get it.

QUOTE: Originally posted by The Nox ... well today i seen my dream model, perfect grade GP-01 the full package. it looks awsome and comes with a display hanger/dock, but its got a steep price of 240 dollars! im going to try and save the cash to get it. MAD your at the source have you seen it for a more reasonable price?

That isn't too bad a price, shipping on that item is horrendous.
The thing weighs 5kg and comes in a BIG Box.

Most of the online shops will charge you listed price 20.000Yen + shipping from over here.

Over here I have seen the Kit for as little as 12.000 yen and one shop even sold one for 5.000Yen (you can guess who got that one). ;)

Most of the discounts are done by the shop and thus will vary greatly.

wow, that kit looks killer i would love to see your finished product. it looks great in that pic and its only done to the point where its well enough to display. well today i seen my dream model, perfect grade GP-01 the full package. it looks awsome and comes with a display hanger/dock, but its got a steep price of 240 dollars! im going to try and save the cash to get it. MAD your at the source have you seen it for a more reasonable price?

The Nox.

The "Dying Rei in Entryplug" Is an Event Only Kit, 1/6 scale and measures about 35cm in length.
Fit on the entry plug was bad and needed about 1/2 a tube of putty to fill the seams, the Rei is nice and needed less work.
Overall a very nice kit for $95.

The pic below is from the Dealer Table at Jafcon, sorry for the quality but the shows are hectic with 1.500 Dealer Tables and between 40.000~50.000 trying to see everything in the 8hrs that the Event is open.

kool thanks man, and kit sounds awsome! i know the feeling all to well of a kit being left alone for a long while, I've had my perfect grade RX-78 for a while and i only built half of it, guess im just a little lazy , i guess i should get back to that. lol

C'yall laters