RG Freedom: WIP Part 2

Today I came home to find my topcoat had arrived, which means I can finally finish the Real Grade Freedom!  Originally I should've been able to finish this guy up last week however I ran out of the top coat I was using, Alclad II Klear Kote, and yes that's how it's spelled.  It's a really good airbrush top coat that I've been using on my MG Epyon and RX-78-2, and then on the RG Freedom.  With only the right wing and the shield left I could've just finished it up last week in Testors brand, but I have a thing about doing a kit with just 1 product rather than mixing it up.  So I'll be soaring this tonight and hopefully tomorrow I'll be able to finish this guy up and post some pictures!

MG Tallgeese EW: WIP Part 3

No pictures today, and not a lot of progress for that matter.  Instead of painting more grey parts what I was able to get done was put down the gloss coat on the parts painted yesterday, and put a layer of flat coat on the head.  This would've completed the head however I accidently knocked down the stem with the head crest on it and got fingerprints in the finish, so I'll have to work on fixing that up this week while I continue work on the torso that I also started today.  Unfortunately vacation is over now so work is going to slow down this week, but I will be continuing work on this (thus far) exceptional Master Grade of a suit I never thought would get the treatment, the Tallgeese!

MG Tallgeese EW: WIP Part 2

Finished up all the yellow pieces yesterday, began work on the grey parts this morning.  There's a lotta grey parts that need painted so this is gonna take awhile.  Just like with the yellow, I started by painting all the parts that needed masking and recolored, now I'm going to recolor the ones that don't need masked on a sectional basis, starting with the arms.  Tonight I also painted the pilot/standing figures of Zechs Marquise, not the easiest I've painted but at least both both figures had the same attire.  The rest of tonight/tomorrow I'll be spraying more and more grey and cleaning up the over spray on my already painted parts.

RG Freedom - WIP

This is my RG Freedom, as you can see it's almost done, just waiting on the wings to finish flat coat and assembly.  Should have it completed by next weekend, look for more pics then!

MG Tallgeese EW: WIP Part 1

Starting the MG Tallgeese ver. EW!  As you may know the EW version of the Tallgeese changes the color scheme slightly, focusing more on a white overall look and removing a lot of the dark grey from the TV version while adding some yellow.  I'm going for a modified version of this look adding in even more yellow and putting in some of the dark grey found on the TV version.  Got the first round of painting done last night, here's some pics of what's been done so far.

Revival...again.

Ok, so it's been awhile since I've posted here, or really done much in the ways of Gunpla period it seems.  The last post I made about projects was for my PG 00 Raiser, well I finished that model (the Gundam itself, haven't done the 0 Raiser and won't for some time) and it was pretty good but I was disappointed with certain aspects and gimmicks of the kit, but I'll do more on that later.

Mostly, since then, I've assembled my MG Epyon Gundam, and I'm currently in the process of flat coating the model with Alclad II Flat, a new airbrush top coat I heard about and am so far really fond of.  That model should be done in the next week and I'll try to get a review up of my thoughts on the kit.  In the meantime I've also assemble my first Real Grade, the RG Freedom Gundam.  Good kit, amazing detail and everything for being 1/144, I realize I'm a couple years behind on the RG line, but I thought the Freedom was a good first one to go with.  I also dug out and flat coated my old RX-78-2 MG, the first MG btw, 1995!  I'll post pictures of that kit soon with my thoughts on it's...innovation of it's time, yeah that's a good way to spin it.

Ok that's about it for this post, announcing a revival of my favorite hobby, Gunpla!  One more thing before I go, this will be coming soon in the pipeline, once I clear out my current floating projects...

2013 Flea Con...(Local hobby show I can't remember the actual name)

Hello, so this past Saturday was Flesh Con 2013 (don't think that's really what its called, but it was Fle-somthing).  It's a local hobby show that one of our stores in town sponsors.  Anyways after a couple years being told I should go, I finally got the chance to go check it out. So along with a couple of friends we went, not expecting to see much Gunpla if at all and well....we were right.  Not surprisingly it was mostly aircraft and automobile models, however there were 2 Gunpla on display, Both HG 1/144 models, the RX-79(G) Ground Gundam and the Golf Custom, both from 08th MS Team.  Pretty good models and this has led me to the decision that I will enter next year for sure.  I had planned to this year but MG Epyon didn't get done in time, alas.  So, next year gonna bring some Gunpla exposure to the local community, can't wait!