Sinanju WIP *warning very pic heavy*

Thanks for watching, everybody!

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quick poll: does the MM brass look good, or is it too pale? I can go over the top of it with some bright yellow gold, or leave it as is.

smeagol the vile wrote:

are you not going to detail the action base?  Im working on mine right now, Im REALLY enjoying it.

 probably not past blacklining to bring out the texture. I don't want it to distract from the model! ;)

Some pics.

Turned out pretty good. I've still gotta give it a layer of future, and flat the red, to match the Sinanju itself. red on top of red gave it a bit of a different tone from the red-on-preshaded b&w of the sinanju, but I call it close enough for an action base.

Shield crest cleaned up quite well with just some gundam marker. I had to scrub a lot of the Future off to fix some oopses, but a fresh coat on top and I think it will look *fine*

HAHAHAHAHA OMG HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

you soaked stickers in water, Thats so ****ing funny.  Oh my god I almost fell out of my chair im laughing so hard.

Bandai kits in general come with 2 things

A - stickers

B - Dry transfers

also, your insaine for doing that many decals.

Got another couple of hours into decals, about 100 left, I think. About 6 moure hours should do it.

Got my Sinanju base too, opened it up and sprayed the base with the same red mix the Sinanju is covered with.

 Then I tried to decal it.

 After the decal wouldn't release from the backing after 5 minutes underwater, I started to wonder.

NOBODY TOLD ME THE ACTION BASE HAD STICKERS, OKAY?

Once that was sorted out, things went swimmingly. but.. stickers? Really?If I had to do it over I'd be sorely tempted to scan the sheet, color correct, and print out waterslides.

About half-way done with decals now, and damn.

Forget about using the white line dry-transfer decals. Just forget it. They'll partially attach while you're positioning them or the piece will just be too sharply curved or something, but you'll be lucky to get half of them down. Just get the waterslides.

Other than the white lines though it's fairly successful.

up next:
Finish Decals
Hand Paint Gold
Hand Paint Details
Gloss Coat All Again
Blacklining
Dull Coat Red Parts
DONE

I hope to be finished before July. >_>

Tomorrow I get the stand and waterslide decals.

Jeez the sinanju dry transfers are impossible.

I've just finished up the fuel tanks, 14 decals, I've ruined 2 (one of them actually flipped itself over on the film before I could apply it) and there's 123 of them in total.

 is there *any* account of anyone actually applying all 123 without incident? 

 *orders waterslides from hobbywave*

smeagol the vile wrote:

These kits arent like the kits of old, the Joints are so well reinforced, many of the master grade kits actuially have screws for the shoulders and elbows.  I did the master grade Zaku II, every joint had atleast two metal screws to hold it.

The latest generation seems to have gone to ABS plastic for the inner frame, which has some natural give and can are basically really tight polycaps on their own without wearing down like the old styrene-on-styrene joints. (I'm looking square at you, Gouf Custom)

So the masking experiment was a total failure. Not only did it produce results worse than if I had just hand-painted, but the old BMF left behind residue, and the painters-tape I used on the shield pulled up the paint. I'm never going to combine masking and unprimed painting again. I'm pretty sure I'll have to re-do the red shield completely, the black parts might be salvagable if I can clean the adhesive residue off without marring up the paint too bad.

Bare Metal Foil, self-adhesive backing I think? Aircraft thing... lol

Looking great!! Love how that red turned out And I'm still shocked it can hold that huge gun...

psstoff995 wrote:

Never done a Gundam model, wanted to, just never have. I'd say though, start layering on the clear red, maybe after a few coats if it's still too clear, layer on the guards, which I'm assuming isn't translucent. I think that way would be easier to correct as opposed to starting out with the solid color then changing your mind for the clear? Don’t know if that made sense...

Yeah, and I'm leaning this direction.

Not the least reason being that the tamiya paints are just so blasted easy to use and airbrush so well. the modelmaster paint keeps clogging my airbrush tip.