Something With The Factory Color?
With the head completed in the last posting, this post will work on the chest and waist.
[Chest]
A place where I mostly pen down my thoughts on the toys reviewed, record the WIPs and also anything that catches my interest and curiosity.
Something With The Factory Color?
With the head completed in the last posting, this post will work on the chest and waist.
[Chest]
Back to this kit after the completion of the Shield Liger. The previous posting concluded with the parts removed from the runner and into their respective boxes. Following the instruction manual, the first section is the head. As most parts are blue, I will use the A.E.U.G.'s MS Blue which was used for Kamiki Burning Gundam. This will lose the factory metallic blue but I am fine with that. The red will be none other than the Super Italian Red used for Kamiki Burning Gundam. As for the mechanical parts I will try the Mr. Hobby Metal Black.
Dived straight into the painting of the kit and forgot to take some photos of how the factory blue looked like before painting. Noticed the kit comes with a chair but wondered why no pilot figure was included with the kit.
Too Cute To Resist
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!!
As this is a Christmas post, will complete the Shield Liger and let it celebrate Christmas with its friend, Gustav.
Continuation from the previous posting, this post will start by putting the Shield Liger together.
A Painful Assembly
All the painting work completed in the previous posting, will be putting together the kit starting with the feet. The first section is the paws and already has me stumped.
[Paws]
A short intermission from the progress work of the Shield Liger. Mentioned in the first WIP of Shield Liger that I will start working on this kit due to this post from another fellow model blogger. Started working on this kit on a weekend while waiting for the paint on Shield Liger's leg to dry. Will either paint the kit at night or in the morning before bed or work and leave it and by the time I have time to work on the kit, the paint has ample time to cure. Since it was a weekend and had no other plans, got a bit bored while waiting.
To be honest I do not know a lot about the Z-Knight line. Saw this in a hobby store many moons ago and since I love knights and this kind of resembles a knight, I picked it up. After searching the internet for more information about this line, apparently there were only 2 HMM model kits were released before production was cancelled. The other is the HMM Marine Kaizer which I hope to get my hands on sometime in the future to complete the collection.
[Box]
More Painting Ahead
Now that the main body has been completed, I shall use it as a template for the legs. This post will be painting the rest of the parts start with the weapons, tail, paws and finally the legs as there are a lots of minute details on them.
[Weapons]
Making It More Visually Pleasing
Today's posting will start with the body of the Liger as the painting for the armor and pilot was completed in the previous posting. First order of business is to place all the pieces on the crocodile clips and satay sticks for ease of work during the painting process and to allow the paint to dry.
It's Not Van Helsing, It's Van Flyheight
Having completed 2 kits: RG GP01 and Kamiki Burning Gundam, 1 in mid build and now starting another, I feel "Operation Reduce Backlog" is off to a great start. Although the kits I brought over are small kits except for the PG Gundam Mk-II, it is still a good progress.
While removing the nub marks from the pieces, I couldn't stop being impressed on how much detail there are on the kit compared to SD Gundam kits. This will require a lot of detail painting to bring out its full potential which is a bit stressful and yet exciting at the same time.
All Well That Ends Well
My Worst Nightmare Came True
Final Touches
The Paint Work Continues
Continuation of painting works from the previous post. The first painting work is the gold color for the sheath and the hand guard of the katana.
Tried the Replenishing Agent for the Red Gold although stated on the bottle that it is not to be used for Aqueous and Mr.Metallic paint.
Here I come to save the day!
Started with painting works for the feet in the last post. With what happened, I made sure to check the paint before use and had the correct thinner at hand.
A Bad Start For The Build
After separating the parts in previous post, proceeded with nub marks removal which took longer than expected. After that has been done started with brush painting process with the white part. After looking through my paint collection from 8 years ago, this is the only white paint I got in my collection
Gotta Love The Burn
With the work all done for the RG Zephyranthes, I have decided to take a break from RG and start a HG kit. The last HG kit was the HG Red Frame (Flight Unit) completed ten years ago. The reason I bought this kit was cause it comes with a katana and I am a sucker for anything with a katana.
Why did I decide to start with this kit? I needed an easy kit to start off and try my hands on brush painting. The most I have brush painted are small details (which I have forgotten how I did it 8 years ago) and this time round I want to try to brush paint an entire model kit. I have some SD in the backlog as well but had an itch to start this as well cause I am curious about the effect pieces.