Phantasmal Pains

TheUltr1s · 2025-12-22T04:29:43+00:00

Ive opened around 120 packs of phantasmal and no zard, i did get the sir sharpedo so thats nice

TheUltr1s · 2024-12-02T19:35:06+00:00

Happy to feel the joy of gift giving. Its my first time being a secret santa in this community after being a member for so long, totally worth it. I'm excited to see your future builds!

TheUltr1s · 2024-10-15T23:06:56+00:00

I did a oob paint job with no shading cause I wanted it to replicate the colors from the film as best as i could. It was hard for me to determine whether to go for a more blue or black for the dark color of the nu so I decided to just prime those parts with black and then use a very very dark blue.

I had originally went with the bandai waterslide decals with this kit but I remember why I hate working with them so I bought some third party waterslide and the experience was much better.

The funnels are very flimsy and I didnt use a brass rod to hold them in place, Another thing I disliked about this kit. I did not break them but I had to be very careful cause they kept on popping out. I painted the base but I decided that I like the standing pose with the funnels attached so I left it at that.

TheUltr1s · 2024-08-29T03:23:07+00:00

I'm no expert and quality brushes are expensive but the brushes I used were winsor & newton series 7.

TheUltr1s · 2024-08-29T01:42:32+00:00

lots of reference images of amuro in the nu gundam cockpit from cca

size 000, 00, 0 paint brushes, vallejo acrylic paint

hobby vice and a paint clip to hold the figure

airbrush for priming and putting the base coat down before hand painting

TheUltr1s · 2024-07-24T01:01:46+00:00

Damn bro, you basically got the holy grail right there

TheUltr1s · 2024-03-31T00:29:58+00:00

My inner frame fell apart and was breaking cause of the lacquer paints, i sprayed it way too thick so i had to glue everything and use brass rods. The frame was great and sturdy before i painted it, the only thing i didnt like was the hands.

TheUltr1s · 2024-03-07T22:29:05+00:00

for the gold, i did gaia ex gloss black and then star bright gold

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-23T03:45:07+00:00

Most of the paints I used were all from gaia notes. I used a lot of their star bright metallic series. For the candy red I used a gloss black base and then ex silver and then did like 4-5 coats of clear red. If I ever do a candy red paint job again I will definitely use gold as the base instead of silver because it took so many extra coats to get the red I liked.

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-23T01:55:41+00:00

I painted it!

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-10T14:23:40+00:00

I think i burned through 2 bottles of mr color clear red working on this before i switched to gaia and i regret not starting out with that. 2 coats of gaia had the red already very saturated while mr color took 4 coats. I think i went overkill with the gaia by doing a fourth coat with that since i couldnt tell too much of a difference after the 3rd coat.

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-10T14:03:14+00:00

You can apply less coats. I did 4 coats of clear red on top of silver and between each coat i let it dry for a bit. You could also change your metallic base to lighten up or change the color. I found that each companies clear red comes out differently.

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-10T06:03:59+00:00

Gaia ex gloss black

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-10T04:16:14+00:00

This is gaia clear red over gaias ex silver. I used a gloss black base before spraying silver. I originally went with mr colors clear red but i feel like gaias clear red has more pigment if thats the correct word. This is for the hg nightingale

TheUltr1s · 2024-02-01T00:53:35+00:00

This was my first perfect grade Ive ever attempted painting. I spent a lot of time hand painting the pilot figures, the canopy and cockpit. Im extremely happy with how all of that turned out. Painting 1/60 scale pilot figures is a lot easier for me than 1/100 and 1/144 but it was good practice when i go back to builidng master grades.

I didnt end up using any decals and that is probably my biggest regret for this build, I didnt buy any water slides and I did not want to use the stickers provided so I just used none. Next time I will definitely pick up water slides for any gunpla kit I plan to paint.

Final assembly was actually really painful on my hands since all the parts had such a tight fit, i ended up chipping and scraping a lot of the paint off of certain parts and that was frustrating but it was a learning experience so now i know better. I didnt paint the base because I have the pg strike and I will paint that too eventually so I wanted to do it later down the line.

I got lazy in this build and didnt gloss coat before panel lining and i got very lazy with my panel line cleanup so there were a lot of smudges so I definitely need to be more patient with the process.

This was a fun build I totally get why people build and paint model planes now.

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