MG Sinanju + Neograde Option Parts - Finished!

The Sinanju is finished! It's totally yellow :D
With the bazookas it doesn't allow for much posing, but that's something i don't really care about anyways. I overexposed the pics a bit which seems like a popular thing to do on a white background. Turned out pretty good i think.







The "hanging" shield mechanism on the shoulder is pretty cool. Much prefer it over clipping it on the arm.

Paint used is:
Armor:
Mr Primer
Mr Base White
Tamiya Flat Yellow
Tamiya Clear
Awesome Mystery Hardwarestore Clearcoat for gloss finish.
Internal frame:
Mr Metal Color Iron (buffable)
Mr Metal Color Dark Iron (buffable)
Tamiya Gunmetal
Ornaments:
Revell Flat Black email
Alclad2 Pale Gold
Weapons:
Tamiya Flat Nato Black

+ various others for small stuff

A few more pics on my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40088241@N03/sets/72157623559279459/

シナンジュ painting -5- update again

Got some more crucial parts finished so i could actually put together some sections.
Here is the result:

Thrusters with Mr Metal Color Dark Iron buffable paint. Looks great imo.


Backpack action


Upper body. How the yellow looks (brighter/darker) really depends on the lighting.

Also it seems like I'm not the only one who is making a yellow Sinanju. Sombody linked me to this one made by Gainjingunpla.
http://gaijingunpla.blogspot.com/2009/10/sinanju-build-project-review-and-theme.html
So make sure to check it out if you are interested.

That's it. Not too many parts left anymore.

Sinanju painting -4- some parts finished

Over the past week or so, i managed to finish some parts of the Sinanju. The fit of some parts is rather tight, which can be a bit frustrating when paint scratches off and I have to redo things -_-
But what can you do eh? Stay frosty!




some more pics on the flickr.

Not sure if I have already mentioned it, but this thing has WAAAAY to many parts. Makes me miss masking (almost) :)

Sinanju painting -3- Custom decals and sleeves

The decalset from samueldecal was a bit sparse, so I made some decals myself. Scanned the original decals from the Sinanju and traced the ones I needed in and filled in black.
Then printed them out on Laser decal paper. (cost like 2€ for an A4 sheet). Worked out great.

Below the decals I made (left) the samueldecal Sinanju set (bottom right) and a generic warning decal set in 1/144 from samuel - I prefer 1/144 decals on 1/100 kits, looks more to scale then man-sized warning decals that 1/100 ones are :)


For the sleeves I primed the plastic with black canned lacquer first, the sprayed Alclad2 Pale Gold over it.

Then I sprayed Revell flat black email color over it.

Then I wiped off the raised areas with lighter fluid and cotton buds. Worked out great but Alclad comes off easier than you'd think -_-
Have to redo a bunch of parts, but generally it works great.

Sinanju painting -2-

As usual I used Tamiya acrylic paints for painting.
To paint the Sinanju yellow i primed the parts with cheapo Duplicolor canned primer, sprayed Mr. Hobby White Base over it and then Tamiya flat yellow. The white was so i get a more vibrant yellow. It works with directly spraying over the gray primer, but then it takes around 4 layers of yellow to get a good result. Over the flat yellow followed a clearcoat so that I can apply decals.

For the bazookas I used Tamiya Nato Black, which has a bit of a grayish tint... also i had that color left over :)

For the internals I am using Mr Metal Color Iron - buffable paint. After airbrushing you buff it a bit to get a great metal effect - which doesn't really photography that well.


As for the ornaments... my current plan is to paint the gold first (Alcald2 Pale Gold) and the spray email black over it. After it dries i wipe the raised gold parts free. Not sure if it will work, heh.


The sheer amount of parts is a bit annoying to paint, but at least, as mentioned before, the parts breakdown is good and most nubs parting-lines are hidden. So there aren't many putty sessions needed.

Sinanju painting -1-

After watching the amazing Gundam Unicorn OAV episode 1 I was really motivated to continue working on the Sinanju :) - And with the Qubeley finished (pics to follow) I started working on the S.

Started with the backpack:

After a round of primer:

Overall the parts breakdown is really good and should make it easy to paint.
Over the gray I'm planning to spray a layer of white as I'm not sure if the yellow or orange (that I am planning to paint the Sinanju with) is strong enough to cover the gray...

Also got these sanding stick at a local hobby store for ~12Euro

totally worth the investment, really useful when working with resin. Recommended!

Sinanju snapped -3-

It is fu***** freezing cold outside so no more painting for the rest of the year. Finished snapping the Sinanju, quite the badboy with the two bazookas - due to their size and weight they don't allow a whole lot of posing thou.
Due to the nature of a resin parts for plastic injection pieces they are pretty thin and break relatively easy when cutting flashes and stuff. I managed to break a handful of little parts, but they are easy to fix with some epoxy glue so no problem here heh.




A bunch of more pics on my flickr set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40088241@N03/sets/72157623032848834/

Sinanju snapping -2-

Starting snapping the Sinanju - what a motherload of parts! The internal frame is supernice but all the moving parts will give me headaches over paint scratching... oh well.
The resin parts all fit nicely and while most differences are really subtle they are nice.


That's a bloody large bazooka:

And there is two of them!

As for painting I am planning to give it a different color scheme than the usual red :D

MG Sinanju + Neograde Option Parts -1-

:D

The Neograde/SMS option parts for my MG Sinanju arrived. This time I ordered directly from SMS which was a bit of a hassle, but in the end worked out fine and saved a bit money.

Box arrived:


Well packed:


Oh yeah baby:


The goods:



The resin casting is super sharp and only has some minor flash that needs cleanup. Also it comes with some aluminum thrusters and acrylic tubes for the bazookas like the original as well as a bunch of decals.

Here you can check out some finished pics from the Neograde website:
http://www.neograde.com/shop/step1.php?number=596

Overall I am very pleased.

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: