1/100 MG Hi-Nu Gundam

Nice! The color scheme reminds me of the RX-78-3, or I guess maybe some of the sentinel designs. Gold eyes really work with the colors here, too.

A few questions.  One, do you paint your eyes, or use the stickers, if you pantem, how.

Second, are you going to go with the straight edged blue white on the fin funnels, or are you going to do a phasing, blue to fade out?

ARE YOU NUTS?! Hi-Nu, not only challanging but the cost, omfg

lol yeah - the Hi-Nu is not the cheapest lol

As for eyes I paint them - what I do is cover the eye piece with chrome foil.  Then I paint the eyes a mixture of clear yellow and clear orange (both tamiya paints).  Once these are dry, I paint the surround in flat black.  Then I put a drop of Krystal Klear over the eyes to give them a little gloss.

I also modded the head so that I can pull the mask in and out anytime - it helps with painting and getting rid of plastic gaps on the head.

Mercedesman wrote:

As for eyes I paint them - what I do is cover the eye piece with chrome foil.  Then I paint the eyes a mixture of clear yellow and clear orange (both tamiya paints).  Once these are dry, I paint the surround in flat black.  Then I put a drop of Krystal Klear over the eyes to give them a little gloss.

I gotta remember that one.

you should, yes. As soon as I get some real free time at home I am going to issue a challange to this forum.  I have a set of reference pics, Im going to challange everyone to either try and make a dio on the reference shots, or to do a Scifi/mecha kit. (the reference shots are WWII american soldiers relaxing with musical instruments on the field between combat)

This forum needs some diversity, it cant be fun for like, doog, for example, to do his 200th hetzer or whatnot.  I think all armor would get some good experiance from doing mecha, and the other way around. 

I just got a couple of packages hehe - one huge order from mechaskunk and a couple of more from samuel decals and gundram pro.  I got new Hi-Nu decals and generic set of data stencils and warning decals...

Stay tuned for more photos tomorrow - almsot done with the arms and hands - damn plata armor is tough - all those tiny tidbits are making me crazy lol

The Bazooka

Here are the arms

and the shoulders - the vents received extra detailing, the side verniers are aluminum items (painted).  This is my favorite pose as well.  I am planning on making the Hi-Nu kneeling on one knee and looking down at the pilot, who will be sanding onhis open palm.  What do you think?

Please give me any feed back - good or bad - I am still learning.

Thanks for a positive reply!

 I use both preshading and wash.  For preshading on this one I did not go too heavy, a spray of dark grey at the creses and lines.  Then I applied the main color - then for wash I actually use a dilluted wash.  I dillute german grey with 50-60% thinner and allow the wash to lightly run across lines, creases, bumps and other irregularities to highlight the detail - then I apply decals and seal the whole thing with a dull coat (the new stuff from Tamiya is nice but it is not as flat as Testor's military dullcoat)

quick update:

Finished interal skeleton of the foot and leg - assembled and painted the foot and working on painting the remainder of the leg armor. 

As you can see, this MG has a lot of mobility at the ankle, foot, knee, etc.  The pistons are done in tamiya new pagan gold and the shafts are MM aluminum.  The foot dampners are done with a mix of gold and copper.  The details were picked out with a wash.  The foot modifications include pla plate armor bits and other detailing.  The foot thrusters are kit pieces, painted with clear red.

Thanks for looking

I have been DIEING to use some of them resin weapons.  I bought one and didnt like it, as in, I didnt like the weapon itself (the kit was superb)  for the longest time I have been wanting to get the sniper rifle, mod it a little bit, and paint a GM up as a colonial soldier

By the way, your farking nuts for buying all of that, you made Fulcy very happy I bet.