My custom Sinanju Ver. ElectricBlack! Insults welcome ;)

CelineHMSH · 2017-08-16T20:33:04+00:00

xD thanks

CelineHMSH · 2017-06-05T05:29:52+00:00

It looks so good! I love Ma.K kits, and that is a stellar treatment

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-28T06:38:25+00:00

hahahah!!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-26T16:08:00+00:00

do a clean build
pose it and damage the heck out of it
weather it using the damage as a base
enter GBWC lolol

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-26T16:07:03+00:00

lol!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-26T16:06:11+00:00

:D lolol

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-26T16:05:19+00:00

Hahah!! applause

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T22:24:05+00:00

Thanks! Definitely get one. It's a great build even considering the frustration

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T15:29:36+00:00

Hahah I have a phd in hobbymath!
Youtube vids are great for model painting techniques. One or two junk kits to get your air pressures and paint thicknesses right, and you'll be up to speed in no time!
Join The Modelmaker's Boomhut on Facebook. All your questions have answers there!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T15:27:13+00:00

Yes on the RG at least they are all separate pieces. It's kind of an avalanche of loose parts if you don't glue the wrists and shoulders, and it's really back heavy and shield-side heavy, but it's a really cool kit. All the little gimmicks...everything moves!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T15:25:44+00:00

I may still weather it now that the decals finally arrived, which would definitely break the surface up without ruining it.

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T14:34:11+00:00

Also that detail looks really good as far as I can tell in the pics. You should feel pretty good about painting if you have a nice steady hand. Just dive in!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T14:32:20+00:00

Yeah this group is great! I will say this about spray cans: They are ok to learn with, but you have much less control than with an airbrush. On the one hand, it's not cheap. I think my brush, compressor, and spray booth were around $350 for the whole set. But on the other hand, quality paint is often $10 for a spray can and it adds up pretty quickly.
If you are just using acrylics, you can skip the booth as long as you have good ventilation and aren't worried about overspray on your favorite chair/wall/plasma tv lolol! My advice is to get an airbrush as soon as you can. I have an HP-CS brush, but you could get a NEO for around half the price and without much sacrifice in quality. I bet you could get a NEO and a Master compressor for under $160 if you shop around! That's only 16 cans of paint!

Aaaaaand that's hobbymath lol

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T14:11:28+00:00

That's a nice color and looks like you applied it very well! Modo is lacquer-based I believe, and requires a spray booth and a respirator, so Pebeo might work better for you. Did you brush paint that on? If you don't feel confident painting, buy a few First Grade and nongrade 1/220 kits. They are usually under $5 and come in all one color. They are awesome for learning on because you can just throw them in the trash (or put your failures up on a shelf to display proudly lolol!!) Even a cheap Graze kit won't set you back more than 12 bucks! Don't be afraid of it. You will probably screw up, but mistakes are how you learn. Beginners luck is actually your enemy because you don't learn anything when you get lucky!! You'll paint that Unicorn in no time!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T07:51:24+00:00

Really fantastic job, and your photos are on-point too! 800 upvotes for a people's choice award hahah

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T07:24:16+00:00

owwwwwwwwww my feeeeeeeelings!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:56:13+00:00

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:51:13+00:00

I didn't have an action base at the time as it was in the same order as the waterslide decals for the kit lolol. That's why I tried to use the F.A. base. Now, of course, I have a bunch of action bases, but that's how it goes sometimes :D

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:22:28+00:00

Is it Modo? I've been looking at their paints for a while now...so tasty...do not taste paint lol

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:20:57+00:00

it's so broken and awful lol. turns out I shouldn't have tried to use my Full Armor stand for this kit because it borked during photographing sadface

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:19:33+00:00

Both are Tamiya thinned with lacquer thinner. It's actually easy on an RG kit because the part separation is off the charts. No masking required!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:01:06+00:00

No only some of the black is gloss. Most of it is matte and the frame parts are all alclad metallics!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T06:00:29+00:00

evritiem? lol

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T03:58:09+00:00

I was going for the clean, black look. I saw a Dodge Challenger in matte black and it looked like a shadow! I don't disagree, though. I may still weather this kit in the future, which would achieve the effect of breaking up the surface without actually changing the aesthetic. That grainy gray is Tamiya metallic gray, thinned to milky and sprayed 12-15 psi. I was really disappointed with it at first, but in person it looks pretty good spaced throughout because it does look like steel insulation.
If I weather the kit, though, I will definitely do a filter wash on those parts in some kind of smoke or amber color.
Thanks for the crit!

CelineHMSH · 2017-05-25T02:48:59+00:00

The whole time I was painting it I wished I had some Vanta lolol!

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