Gunpla Excursions

yezzzur.all knives.

i come here to learn from the best.

sanimasen.

Like the Sniper, but I've always been partial to that kit. Nice photography too.

Care to share you're techniques? I've been toying w/ the idea of trying to build a beat up Raiden, and could always use a new technique or two...

its quite easy really.

depends on what you want to indent into the kit.

bullet holes.

paint scuffs.

chipped parts.

with the hobby knife id cut into the part then run some black pigment ink pen and steel colour marker to them,then using a finger id smudge the ink and the ink with fill into the gaps until i acheive weathered effect.

.sandpaper as well.using a grit.youd fill the sanded surface with your desired weathering medium.then clean off the excess and the weathering will become noticable.

with a drill or dremel,youd lightly run them over the parts surface or edges to make indents.then paint them to weather with a fine brush.

or instead of marking the side of parts to show chipped paint.id paint the base in steel colours with a few layers then paint overcoat.then id sand the overcoat until the steel colour beneath appears.

I like your work, im a big fan of the first Zaku.  The zaku sniper though, seems alittle over damaged on the shoulder.

When it comes to gundam, I tend to get all... factuial, like the armor guys do with their tanks.  A Zaku I sniper, as far as what it would have went up against, there is no enemy weapon that would make hits the size of the ones on the shoulder.  The vulcans from the gundam would be to small, the Rifles (non beam) that the feddies had would be to large. (remember, there firing what amounts to be tank rounds, and a person is about half the size of that shoulder armor,  Last, any ground fire from infintry would not be directed at the shoulder armor, it would be the legs or waist, to take it down.  

Those are some of the things I think about when I damage my gundams.  I actuially take the weapons and measure out the correct size of the blasts and cuts.

For things like beamsabers, remember, the slash would not normally hit center and end in the center, it would start from the edge and end center, or cut right through.  If it would hit center, the damage indent would be alot less then furthur into the cut.

the sniper was my first attempt.

seeing the shells that dropped in the first gundam movie id say its about the half the size of a person.

i was seeing that a sniper would stay real low and would take a building as cover and of course the armored part of the shoulder would be facing forward first as extra cover.

so it looks like some units would have been trying to knock his scope head on or from the side.

 still much to learn

sanimasen.

well, the size of the shell doesnt corrolate to the size of the crater and the damage it does.  I'm just saying to remember that there not bullets, but armor piercing explosive rounds.  The rounds they are firing are larger and more powerful then those of the nazi 88 flak guns, remember that and the havoc those things wreaped.

But you did did a great job

Nice builds. Though the sniper is my favorite because I am partial to desert camo.lol

Alos I agree with Puma's comment. We don't want to scare anyone away. Besides it aloso depends on who you are buidling it for as far as who is looking/scrutinizing it. Not every one has any idea how much damage these weapons do. So to the general public "cool battle damage".lol

However with that being said smeagol, I have never taken those points into that much concideration except in the most basic sense. You have given me something new to think about when I start my next battle damaged build. So actually thanks.lol