Pics that don't suck - aka Jagd Doga - Quess part2

Tried to make pictures that don't totally suck and the Jagd Doga was the guinea pig. The lighting still leaves a lot to be desired but I have a pretty good idea how to make things better next time.






http://www.flickr.com/photos/40088241@N03/sets/72157623416584173/

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HGUC Hy-Gogg part 2

Crammed out that Hy-Gogg. Hah!
Painted some parts in Tamiya Royal Blue and gave it a shark mouth, those always looked insanely cool to me :)



The blue paint looks a bit messy below, i think thats from the fumes of the white paint as I used white primer out of a can... yeah.


Need a bit of cleanup now and I'll probably add a black outline around it.

All this I did while listening to Tegan and Sara which are pretty cool!

HGUC Nu Gundam pics

Made some new pics of the HGUC Nu Gundam













http://www.flickr.com/photos/40088241@N03/sets/72157623523200719/

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HGUC GAZA C

What an unpleasant kit! Firstly i still think it is fairly ugly. Generally i really like the off the hook Z and ZZ designs but this one is turd-ish. And secondly the transformation mechanism is really flimsy - not that the GAZA-C looks good in either mode... hah.


Not sure what I am gonna do with it. I am rather uncreative when it comes to scratchbuilding and adding details... but the kit vanilla is a no-go.

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:

HGUC RX93 Nu Gundam Progress 1

As you have probably seen I already snap-fitted the Nu Gundam once (and the other Jagd Doga for that matter). I now took it apart again and started sanding and puttying the seamlines.

Also the head antennas come with some rather big nubs at the end (probably so that little children don't poke their eyes out). I sanded those away and also already primed some parts.

Quess's Jagd Doga finished

The last finishing touches are added to the Jagd Doga, like decals and the shield details and sumi-ire.

The finished Jagd Doga:



Turned out pretty good I think. But I need to work on my photographing skills.

Quess Air Jagd Doga progress

Primed some of the parts and started airbrushing. I tried extracting primer from the can and airbrushing it for a more economic use, as described in this tutorial: http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/paintxtract/xtract.html . The extracting worked great, but the airbrushing only so-so. The extracted primer seems to dry to fast for me, leaving a rough surface when airbrushing it. So it needed sanding again. Not sure if I will do this again.

For the silver parts i used AlcladII Aluminum.
Looks really nice and smooth.


The red parts are painted with a red-pink mix and a coat of clear red over that.


Also I orderd a bunch of waterslide decals from http://www.samueldecal.com/ in 1/144 scale as the stickers that come with the HGUC kits are unusable. The website is superslow loading, but it has a nice selection and isn't too expensive. I orderd a bunch of them, so I can put some little warning decals on the Jagd Dogas. Also orderd some for the Nu, Re-GZ and the upcoming Sazabi.

Jagd Doga Quess Progress

I started building Quess's Jagd Doga. Snap fitted it, then lots of sanding and putty.



The parts after washing them in soap water: