Prep, Priming, and a new site…
Greetings internet, I've missed you dearly. I've been busily slaving away with airbrushes and sandpaper and life as usual and haven't had time to update. Say 'Hello' to the new site. Currently it's just a shell until I get to designing the new layout and such. I'll be transferring all of my Gunpla related articles from my old blog here rather quickly.
So if you've been on my Tumblr then you've already seen the GP-03 and my failed Zaku. If not, its some fun stuff to look at. I'm currently building an Astray Blue Frame MG and either a Qubeley or Infinite Justice after.
Anyway, more later. Just wanted to poke my head back in.
Spray Booth: Operational
So I did it. Finally. I was having an off night where I didn't feel like going out and I said to myself, "Shit, might as well test out this spray booth."
I didn't want to break out the airbrush quite yet and I had pre-primed Custom GM pieces, so I said, "Let's do this." In the above picture you can see my progression from too much paint to an attempt at hand painting and then watching a couple YouTube videos and figuring out the "short quick bursts" of paint technique from Vegeta8259 using a spray can.
I got through a few more pieces and then decided while the others were drying that I would try using the 'Mica Silver' on the frame. It looks rad and I can't wait to finish up the rest of the pieces. This was the Custom GM I blogged about a while ago, and I can't wait to get it put together and do some cool white accents on this thing.
Tomorrow I am required to do some freelancing and repairing a damaged Macbook. Hopefully I can get all of this out of the way quickly so I can get back to painting. Or if I'm lucky, getting a couple quick coats of paint down and then do more work.
Life is rough, I guess. World's smallest violin is playing for me right now, I know.
A Little Deathscythe Goes a Long Way
I was at my distributor and I grabbed a kit at random. This one is the Deathscythe Endless Waltz Version (not the Hell Custom). The navy blue and yellow were a bit blasé, so I went with black and gold. Excuse the photo quality as my photo booth is also not setup quite yet.
I hand painted this kit. I don't have the space/setup yet to spray paint or airbrush. I took it out onto my balcony to apply the pearl coat. I'm sure my neighbors were amused. The whole painting setup is in the works but I'm waiting on my tax return to get the final pieces together. Just a little longer!
I forgot how much I hate 1/100 scale sometimes. These pieces were fucking tiny. I'm considering breaking out the 00 Raiser or Zeta Gundam for my next kit just to take some time with painting and weathering. I didn't do weathering on this kit because the Wing Gundams are there to be pretty, not useful. I guess I could say the exact same thing for the 00 Raiser, so let's go with Zeta. That machine had some milage for sure!
I also forgot how much building and painting makes the stress and worries just melt away. Below the cut for all the photos.
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