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I wish I had known about backlogust. I have... a bunch of models. haha.boz posted:Ball Twins are a bust, only paints I have right now are a cheap 20 dollar acrylic set I bought off of Amazon. Learning that I may need to invest in something not those to get decent results. May try again later but for now it's going back on the shelf. I ~think~ one of the differences between model grade paints and cheap paints, is how finely the pigments are ground, and the percentage of pigment suspended in the carrier. The stuff I've used that's not artist/hobby grade always ends up.. grainy. Barbatos rex seems to get over that by airbrushing it really thin.. but even then you can see.. the pigment.. sometimes.
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Nerobro posted:I wish I had known about backlogust. I have... a bunch of models. haha. Only handbrushing at the moment, hope to have an airbrush setup before the year is out
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Aug 16, 2022 11:37
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boz posted:Only handbrushing at the moment, hope to have an airbrush setup before the year is out I do all my paint at my comptuer desk. So it's all handbrushing for me too.
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Aug 16, 2022 20:33
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Nerobro posted:I do all my paint at my comptuer desk. So it's all handbrushing for me too. Stuff like this gives me hope. Just had some Vallejo paints / matte / gloss come in today, gonna pull the ball twins back out and try some more. Edit: Finished the Origin Guntank  Definitely going to go back and give it some camo paint some day, this model is begging for it. Next up is MG Char's Gelgoog 
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Aug 16, 2022 21:00
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boz posted:Stuff like this gives me hope. Just had some Vallejo paints / matte / gloss come in today, gonna pull the ball twins back out and try some more. Handbrushing is totally viable. Airbrushing gets a lot of hype but if you take your time and build up thin coats nobody will be able to tell the difference once its finished.
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Aug 17, 2022 19:13
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Hell, the main reason I use an airbrush is I'm too lazy and untalented to paint by hand. I used to use rattle cans but they go through paint a lot faster and take too long to dry.
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Aug 17, 2022 19:44
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RillAkBea posted:Handbrushing is totally viable. Airbrushing gets a lot of hype but if you take your time and build up thin coats nobody will be able to tell the difference once its finished. My hurdle right now is trying to get the right ratio for a thin coat, been watching a couple of youtubes about it but I feel like that sweet spot may take some practice.
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Aug 17, 2022 20:41
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boz posted:My hurdle right now is trying to get the right ratio for a thin coat, been watching a couple of youtubes about it but I feel like that sweet spot may take some practice. AAah, a place I can give advice. The actual "ratio" is much less important than you might think. it's important that it's thin enough to "flow". That's the important bit. If it's to thin, it'll take more coats. If it's to thick, it's obvious it's brushed paint. So... thinner. It takes coats. Lots. Of. Coats. When I've not been good with my thinning, as many as six coats. When I AM good with my thinning.. more like four, three if I am lucky. Your first coat will be streaky, runny, and likely have gathered pigment at the edges. Your second coat will do better. The third.. even better.
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Aug 17, 2022 21:00
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If want cheap practice on getting a proper thin coat or on the future layer/highlighting, just get some plastic spoons to paint on. I can't remember if that advice was here when I saw it or the modeling thread, but it is still solid advice for painting. Especially when nervous about ruining a model.
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boz posted:My hurdle right now is trying to get the right ratio for a thin coat, been watching a couple of youtubes about it but I feel like that sweet spot may take some practice. Take advice from the Warhams people: When thinning your paint, aim for the consistency of milk. It should flow into and out of your brush easily. as you lay down your first coat, it will look quite transparent, especially if you're laying a light color over a dark color primer/undercoat, but because it's so thin, you can lay down many layers of pigment without building up bulk, creating a beautiful, even coating. Very thin, translucent coats of paint also facilitate blending of colors for lovely shading. For added invisibility of your brush-strokes, vary your stroke angle for each layer, especially when laying solid colors across larger surfaces. St0rmD fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 17, 2022 |
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Aug 17, 2022 21:29
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I despise hand brushing, especially hand brushing white, which is a huge problem with gundams, obviously. Airbrush all day every day I say! Plus I like to do pre shading and post shading which is pretty hard without an airbrush.
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Thanks for all the advice everyone, will definitely try and implement for the rest of this kit and the future.
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Aug 18, 2022 00:01
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Tristar down! And next:  Hopefully this'll inspire me to finally get the other RG Evas out of storage following my move earlier in the year... Bonus build! I got too excited and threw this guy together in a couple hours (then some extra time for stickers), completely forgetting to take a picture first. One of the scenes from the Origin manga that's stuck with me is seeing four Zaku I's and a prototype almost-Gouf take out 12 of these guys, so of course I had to have one for my very own. 
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Aug 18, 2022 00:53
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Never have enough grunts. Also if you like the not-quite Gouf you should get the Bugu High Grade. It's one of the very few HG model kits that has a self rotating mono-eye rather than a lever or toothpick rotation.
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Arc Hammer posted:Never have enough grunts. They're best friends!  That's a good call on the mono-eye- I noticed that as I was putting it together, but hadn't really connected that the other zaku-types I'd assembled just had a tab for turning the eye.
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this challenge makes me realize I've had my Mk-IV gundam sitting on my shelf half constructed for like... 2 years
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Went back and finished the Blue Ball Twins Left was done earlier this week with the cheaper paint, right was with the Vallejo. Painted before I had a good knack on the thinning, so it went on a bit thick and covered a detail here and there. I did notice with this kit that a lot of the panel line recesses on the arms are barely even there, even without paint.
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Aug 18, 2022 05:38
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"If you give a mouse a cookie" but gunpla
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not backlogust but just some for funsies stuff  bought my first 30MMs a while back. this is a kitbash of a Cielnova and a Rabiot, with some option parts added in. especially fond of the backpack, i slammed two option backpacks together to make a sort of super high mobility looking flight pack. i have a few weapon sets to add in but this was a fun experience! 30MM, it turns out, is freedom
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JoeGlassJAw posted:not backlogust but just some for funsies stuff Hang on, you've only done half the job! Where's the kitbash of the other halves of the Rabiot and Cielnova kits and your random leftover accessories? 
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JoeGlassJAw posted:not backlogust but just some for funsies stuff That flight pack backpack looks really good! I've been messing around with 30mm kits (and bought a real camera) recently and it's a lot of fun messing around with different configurations and so on.  Still need a lot of practice though. Not quite ready for prime time.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Hang on, you've only done half the job! lol, the leftovers aren't very interesting...yet. it mostly just looks like a rabiot with cielnova shins but i do also have one of these:  that I may try and find a way to frankenstein in to make like a four legged heavy gunner type with the leftovers. i will post here if and when i do! Potsticker posted:That flight pack backpack looks really good! I've been messing around with 30mm kits (and bought a real camera) recently and it's a lot of fun messing around with different configurations and so on. thanks! the cielnova is so cool. i like that olive drab color. i bought colors that i felt like would go together without painting but now i'm kind of wishing i had gone a little more eccentric. there was an orange rabiot and i think that might've looked really cool with this. i think my favorite part of this is that i can go to a brick and mortar store and buy these. it's really nostalgic. i could pick up gunpla in stores when i was a kid but there was a good decade or two where i could only go online. now i can go into hobbytown and browse and i liked getting inspiration for the 30MM stuff in that way
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Got me some robots: https://imgur.com/a/1MXShvl
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Picked up some black primer from Games Workshop for the ersatz Space Leo, all the stores were out of fine detail primer. No pics, and I start a new job soon so this will probably be the last one for the month, although I'm curious if aluminum on black primer looks good for the HG Cybaster I've sat on for nine months. That leaves a Revernova, Messer, MG Sandrock (GoL), MG Double X, MG F91, and an RG Tallgeese III and RG Hi- Nu.Droyer posted:Got me some robots: https://imgur.com/a/1MXShvl I'm so impressed they reproduced it to that level! How do you feel about it? Is the transformation stable? Lawrence Gilchrist fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Aug 19, 2022 |
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:Picked up some black primer from Games Workshop for the ersatz Space Leo, all the stores were out of fine detail primer. No pics, and I start a new job soon so this will probably be the last one for the month, although I'm curious if aluminum on black primer looks good for the HG Cybaster I've sat on for nine months. That leaves a Revernova, Messer, MG Sandrock (GoL), MG Double X, MG F91, and an RG Tallgeese III and RG Hi- Nu. I really like it, though I was predisposed to I suppose lol. The transformation is fairly stable, the torso holds together very well but the arms and legs can fall off. There are instructions in the manual on how to properly turn them and as long as you follow those they stay together pretty well though. Also re: reproducing it to that level the transformations and combinations cheat pretty hard, which I'm fine with since the end result ends up looking better.
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As far as I know I've created the first ever Char Custom Rick Dom 1.5  Don't ruin this for me
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Backlogust roundup week 3! Boz starts off with an SD Unicorn, .5 points. Alley-oop with the HG Guntank for an additional point. Something something blue balls, three points for a painted Ball set. Argas: Efreet custom HG, 1 point. Spectral Elvis is still in progress, but I wanted to go ahead and clarify something. These are the big kits and not the little 1/2000 or whatever sets, right? Just Dan Again knocks out that chunni HG with the scythe I can never remember the name of (1 pt), the MG GN-X for 2 points, another HG for the Tri-Stars Zaku, and we’ll call it half a point for the Guncannon on account of not taking a time stamp. Star Man still on a spree with the HG Guncannon (1 pt) Lawrence Gilchrist puts together a mutant HG; clarification needed, is that painted or just topcoated? Boz continues to hold on to number one with 12.5 points, riding high on paint bonuses. Star Man in second with 8 points, and Just Dan again in third with 5.5. I would encourage anybody thinking about participating to do so; there’s just ten contestants right now, and I think you’d be surprised how easy it is to end up in the prize pool with a very minimal outlay of effort. As always, shout at me if I missed anything you did this week. We’re coming into the home stretch, so if you haven’t started yet, get those timestamp pictures in!
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grassy gnoll posted:Spectral Elvis is still in progress, but I wanted to go ahead and clarify something. These are the big kits and not the little 1/2000 or whatever sets, right? Yeah, these are the big kits - about 45cm long completed. Just for removal of any doubt, specifically these: https://www.hlj.com/1-1000-scale-u-n-c-f-aaa-class-dx-bans55588 https://www.hlj.com/1-1000-scale-earth-federation-andromeda-class-2-ship-aldebaran-movie-effect-ver-bann17848
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 Finished with Zeorymer. Decent kit for a robot that probably wouldn't have gotten one otherwise, which is generally the baseline for Moderoid kits. Has very good color separation (the only stickers for that are some black ones for the 'wings'), and a lot of nice-looking translucent parts, with foil stickers for putting behind some of them. Only thing I wish was better is it has a lot of seam lines, even if they're not -that- noticeable from the front.  ...and I wish I had a third interesting kit to show off, but all I have left is this Guncannon, which shouldn't take too long.
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This is what I did last night. A wide range of techniques here... Some paint, some stickers, some panel liner. This is my favorite IBO kit.
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Nerobro posted:This is what I did last night. A wide range of techniques here... Some paint, some stickers, some panel liner. That's the 1/100 right? Well done on getting it to stand E; I thought I posted my backlog but it didn't go through; 
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Naaa, it's the 1/144 scale one. My old one lives on my mousepad. I am now 2-3 years down the road in my skills, so I thought it was time to do one "well". This one is definitely better. I do have the 1/100 FM model in my backlog... but... I'm kinda not doing 1/100 models till I get the house clean enough to display them. Or until Exia 2.0 is released.
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Just finished Char's MG Gelgoog 2.0   I love Zeon suits, always giant feet. Was debating on finally starting my PG Unicorn, but don't know if I'd finish before the month is up, so I'll play it safe: 
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Droyer posted:Got me some robots: https://imgur.com/a/1MXShvl This rules
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Slanderer posted:This rules u rule bae
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Nerobro posted:Naaa, it's the 1/144 scale one. My old one lives on my mousepad. I am now 2-3 years down the road in my skills, so I thought it was time to do one "well". This one is definitely better. Ah, I didn't think the HG had the pistols, been a whilst since I built either.
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Nerobro posted:I do all my paint at my comptuer desk. So it's all handbrushing for me too. Here's a great video showing the process and results of handpainting using lacquer paints. The specific paints he uses can be hard to get in the US (along with most japanese lacquer paints, it seems), but the results are really nice. He doesn't use a bunch of layers either, just liberal use of self leveling thinner (also, some lacquers won't dissolve as readily when layered after curing, like acrylics can) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXuoktEB4Ds Slanderer fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Aug 21, 2022 |
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BizarroAzrael posted:Ah, I didn't think the HG had the pistols, been a whilst since I built either. The HG has the pistols, but it can't stash them. Instead it has pistol detailing on the skirt.
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Back in 2014, a guy in California who is on the internet under the handle Funaka created and distributed a PDF that's pretty much every technique you can do on a Gundam in one place, with pretty detailed directions and photos. His website disappeared a while back but I rehosted the doc here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YaNA1VXIhT1VQ3GtlPwOafdw9gIkMbrk/view?usp=sharing I posted it when he first made it available so if you saw it then, this is the same file.
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