Vallejo Model Air Metallic

Today I bought some acrylic Vallejo Model Air paints (Steel and Arctic Blue) which come pre thinned for aibrush in 17ml bottles and I take back what I said about cleaning the airbrush after Mr Metal Color, cuz this shit is just vile. It leaves some sticky goo in the airbrush that seems somewhat resistant to washing out, so I have to more or less scrape it out. What the fuck! Not recommended, even thou the metallic is kinda nice. Maybe some more thinning will give better results.

I'm using a Harder & Steenback Evolution Silverline with a 0.4mm needle btw.

Alclad 2 metallic colors remain the best imo, great metallic effect and easy to work with. Althou they are a bit on the pricey side.

Mr Metal Color

Painted the Qubeley's tsuka (not sure what the English word is... sword handle?) with Gunze/GSI Creos Mr Metal Color Chrome Silver. Mr Metal Color are buffable colors, you airbrush them and them buff them with some piece of cotton. They are airbrush only and already pre thinned.
The result is really nice, but WHAT A MESS! It's a pain the clean the airbrush afterward and the metal particles in the paint smear everywhere. So it's imperative to seal them with some clearcoat ofter buffing.

Here the two tsukas, the bottom one is already buffed.

I also have a bunch of other Mr Metal Colors here, but I don't think I will use them, bah.

Qubeley LOL

Ok, I went insane and decided I want the black/dark parts of the ST Qubeley in flat black and the white parts even glossier/polish them. Also I want to paint more detail to the internals in silver/metal colors. The original artwork has them in unicolor, but i guess a bit detail can't harm, now that I have taken that bastard apart.

I hope this ends well -_-'

In other news I have ordered a Master Grade Sinanju from Rainbow10. Planning to build it with the Neograde Sinanju resin option parts. They look like this:

Nu Gundam Finished

I finished the Nu kinda in a rush, but at least it's from the table now. Turned out kinda OK i guess.

 

Used a Dupli Color Flat Clear can to flatcoat it. Worked pretty good and those Dupli Color cans are hella cheap. Also heard good things about their Primer which I also ordered two cans of. 

Will make some decent pics when the lights is better.

Nu Gundam ressurrection

I was cleaning my hobby closet/box a bit and found the half finished Nu Gundam I stopped working on a year ago or so. Turns out only a handful more parts need painting so I figured this one could be finished quickly by me :)

Painted the white parts of the gun and bazooka with alcad II silver, looks pretty cool. (doesn't really show on the crappy cellphone pic)

Whats left is some detail painting and decaling.

HGUC Hy-Gogg Part 1

Despite not having much time i started working a bit on the HGUC Hy-Gogg. What a lovely design!

Snapfitting was painless and easy, but to putty away some of the seamlines on the main body some cutting around was required.

Before:

After:

and glued together:

like this i can get rid of the seamlines created by the top head shell, while also beeing able to paint the 'eye' separately. The Head/Body part now just slides over the gray inner body part.

Works great! Here the parts after closing the seams and a first round of primer:

Good News Everyone! SP-12 on 09.26

Plamo Tsukurou Custom SP-12 will air on September 26th and will feature two HGUC Gundams!
Everybodys favorites from Char's Counter Attack, the Nu Gundam and the Sazabi.

http://wwwz.fujitv.co.jp/otn/b_hp/100000023.html