2014 March

So I finally get my photo setup situated and started shooting tonight. I went out with my buddy Dan, a fantastic photographer and fellow designer, to buy the pieces of my photography setup.

I still have some work to do on the lighting, but it’s coming together nicely! I used a rig of metal pipes from Home Depot with a roll of white paper in the meantime. I prefer to use a black backdrop for a while suit like Sazabi, but when you start shopping for photo gear at 6 pm on a Friday night, beggars can’t be choosers! I am going to try and head out this weekend to get some proper lights and some seamless. I’m not a big fan of the texture the paper is giving me.

Before setting up the photo rig, I primed the Sinanju Stein! I decided to use the Titans color scheme on the Stein instead of the Nu Gundam. I talked it over with a couple other custom paints and my fellow gunpla nuts over on Reddit, and decided that the Stein would look pretty awesome with the treatment.

The project after the Stein will be the Banshee MG kit. I have a couple techniques I want to try out before I dive into the model itself, but I have a unpainted Ver Ka Unicorn I will be testing a few of those techniques on. I’ll post later this week once I get further into both of the before mentioned kits.

I’m pretty torn between which kit is next. Think the Titan colors will look better on either?

Sorry, that’s all I wanted to say. I am pleased as punch. There are some imperfections and I will fix them later.

Oh MAN! What a weekend! So much got done while at the same time not very much got done. Details below!

Current Project – Sazabi Ver Ka [MG]

I started priming some of the plates for the Sazabi. I focused on the torso and the head as a starting place. I REALLY wanted to get the head done because of how iconic it is in order to urge me forward. The white paint was very tricky. I might need to sand down some spots and do some touchup because of some debris and other issues. I’ll post some photos later tonight when I have a chance to put the pieces together.

I’ve been updating the flickr gallery and the project page as I go, so stay tuned!

Future Project – RX-0 Banshee [MG]

This weekend I was joined in the shop by my girlfriend. She’s been itching to get a chance to paint some Gundams for a while, so we ignored all of our other projects and knuckled down. I didn’t get as much done on the Sazabi as I wanted, but her enthusiasm and excitement for her first kit was so heartwarming that I didn’t want to stop her. This included a trip to our local Hobbytown USA to pick out paint and meet my local Gunpla guru. She painted the spoons to test out all of her new colors and got to work super quickly while I broke out another kit to work on since Sinanju Stein was prepped already. Luckily, it was a HGUC kit, so there weren’t a lot of pieces to paint.

Unlike Sazabi. Which. Has. So. Many. Pieces.

While she was keeping the paint station occupied, I started up my 3rd kit on deck, the MG Banshee. I’ve built the Ver Ka Unicorn already, so a lot of this was quite familiar, but the extra armatures and flair on this particular model make it pretty badass.

I’m taking a page from the lady’s book and going with a bold primary color with full gloss and then doing a nice chrome endoskeleton with matte black accents. I’m torn between a bright yellow or green, but I’m also considering a light blue, as well. I haven’t used many colors (other than gold) lately, so I feel like it’s time to try my luck.

More pictures as they come together.