AWKWARD ZOMBIE

How did you prop that thruster onto the wire?

Thruster has a peg on it so I wrapped the wire around the peg. If it's something with a slot just bend the wire closer to more wire to thicken it and insert it into the slot.

kk, it's just a few of those kind of parts left, like the handles for the beam sabres and stuff, so I'll try doing it like that and then I'm done.

Also
Tools

I used nail clippers and safter scisors.

Oops

I use my box o' X-Acto knives to get parts off the sheet and to cut off nubbins.

Im not allowed to have exacto knives. :U

Surgical scalpels are the best for modelmaking and stuff.

I use surgical scalpels for trimming paper.

http://i.imgur.com/SDA43.jpg
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and so i finally finished my badly assembled and badly painted black templar rhino

GM legs assembled and sanded for painting. red plastic ruins my sandpaper -_-
Anyone know of a way to get more thruster parts? GM's gotta go fast.

Not entirely sure on how to get that accomplished outside a kit bash tbh. Maybe you could take a modeler's knife and make those tiny booty thrusters on the feet that Char's Zaku had by engraving thruster detail into those parts but IDK.

Currently assembling. Fucked up an upper thigh because my gundam marker leaked a giant blob of ink so I have to spray that part again. I think I'm going to overspray most body parts to hide the gaps where they're put together tomorrow.
Also I'm painting the face with gundam marker now, which works surprisingly well considering I never did this before.

Felt the need to make this a new post.


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Could have been better but not bad for my first time with painting and everything.

I'm just kind of torn between what kind of paint to use in the future. Water based or resin based. With water based colours I often need to paint multiple layers for the colour to look good and even then it somehow likes to go off a bit like on the blue chest piece. Is there some stuff that I can spray on top that is transparent so the colour doesn't go off, but is not shiny, cause I don't want it to be shiny.
And on the other hand resin based I only need 1 layer, the colours look great, it's not shiny and doesn't come off... but only on parts that don't get friction. Like the handles for the beam sabres, the paint peeled off the instant I shoved them into the gundam's hands. So it would be good for parts like the chest piece but not others. Also not good for small pieces like the V crest on the head, I don't know if you can see it but I needed to wipe off and reapply so often today and it still didn't look good so I kinda helped myself with white marker on the parts where paint wouldn't stick properly.
I don't know. Suggestions?

There are two kinds of top coat. Glossy and Matte finish. Matte finish is what you want to get or even just get plain top coat which does exist.

As for paint advice, I swore to the church of Krylon



Needs layering but daisies does it look fine.

I don't think we have that brand here in Germany.

So I just ordered my first gundam kit, but I need paint, what do y'all recommend to start off with?

EDIT:

Fuck it! tried building my first gundam.

Took me seven hours, covered in paint, back aches, lost half my ring finger, but I finally finished my first gundam model.



lookadat bastard! yeah, it's FG and the paint job's shitty, but dammit I made that.
gonna try a gouf next.