HMM RZ-046 Shadow Fox – WIP #2

Continuing the work, this fox has a lot to clean up.

Just those parts gave me quite a bit of work, with plenty of mould lines in inappropriate places and seam lines to fix.

After everything is cleaned masking follows in order to have the parts with the colours that I want where I want them.

And after priming and spraying some paint on them, here’s how they look now.

Only after painting them did I notice a couple more imperfections:

In this closeup it’s clearly visible the sink marks on some of the round pieces and ankle guards. I need to pay closer attention to these sort of things.

The piping pieces on the other hand are fine. I got some bleeding, but that will be taken care of in the next stages.

And that’s where it stands for now.

Thanks for watching.

Gundam Age-2 Normal 1/144 HG WIP #4 – Masking & Inner Frame

Masking is probably the part of this hobby that I enjoy less, and tiny odd details in 1/144th scale is a pain to do correctly. In the picture above the front of the helmet is masked with a mix of masking tape and blu-tac. After painting the black base coat I took everything off to check, and good thing I did, since there was some bleeding which needed cleaning before the next part.

MBF-P03 Astray Blue Frame Second L [WIP] : Final Update

This guy has been far too long in progress so lets give an update on its adventures.

Getting Blue

This guy is a looker, even though the meanwhile released master grade version, is a considerable improvement this version is not a total slouch, being that its main problems in the looks department are, in my opinion its proportions.

As you can see in the Snap Review I did previously this kit doesn’t lack detail, but it does have some parts (allot) moulded in the wrong colour and that, needs to be corrected.

There was a considerable amount of tough masking to get this guy right, just check how it looks in a first phase of painting his fingers.

Masking this was a challenge.

And since absurd amounts of masking weren’t enough I had to make it even more interesting by losing the piece for the eye and had to scratch build a replacement.

Well, I wouldn’t call it quite a scratch built part, but I cut the eyes sticker to serve as a template put them on some pla plate and trimmed to size. Then it as a matter of sticking the pieces in place and filling the space with a bit of putty.

I can see again !!

I also tried paint the sensors by hand with some silver and clear green but that didn’t go as well as I expected. I have to get an alternative method to get better results. If anyone has advice please, I would appreciate it very much.

 

Now with a stylish hat

With the body assembled painted and detailed, now all that is left is to wait for the first opportunity to top coat it. I’m planning on top coating with semi gloss clear, so its final paint job look won’t be much different from what you can see in these pictures, but stay tuned and tell me what you think.