adrian (hlelo_wolrd)

It's plenty of fun. Your backlog will start growing much faster when your builds take 10x the time though.

Incremental progress. Did some test colors and then painted the upper torso frame. Gonna go limb by limb painting the frame and reassembling.

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MG Rick Dom painting progress. next steps are finishing the LED wiring and painting inner frame

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been too busy to build our paint lately but I have some recent incomplete models to share. MG Rick Dom with custom LED mono-eye and bottom half of HGGQX Red Gundam
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won a Gundam TCG store tournament for the first time 🥳 got good pulls too

for bandai kits you can skip washing (unless it's covered in too much sanding dust) so long as ur using a primer. I stopped washing and my paint can resist light scratches

turned out great!
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This was my first time with a kit of this difficulty. It taught me to be more comfortable with making and fixing mistakes. I had to repaint a couple of sections

Hovertruck from 08th MS Team (1/144 scale)

First time making and using a filter paint to get the colors right. Nice little 1-day project

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A good kit if you enjoy seam line removal and masking

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tried out ProAcryl glaze&wash medium. added some more orange and brown, then dry brushed ivory

my first gunpla was a MG. you will have fun. put some long YouTube videos in the background and clip away

if these minis weren't so damn hard to get I'd probably be more inclined to try different styles. even the Artifact line rarely gets stocked

really conflicted on whether I like my own mini painting style. I like that the airbrush keeps the finish super smooth and consistent, but I feel like it's not as visually interesting as manually highlighting with a brush.

finished guncannon mini

had a ton of trouble getting the terrain color how I wanted it. too pink, not brown enough. probably would've looked better with more orange though. maybe I'll repaint another day

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guncannon up next. gonna play around with some new dry brushes after the base coats harden

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I've mostly been using Tamiya solvent based acrylics and lacquers. They aren't good for layering with brush because the thinners eat through previous layers. For airbrushing, they go on super smooth and dry as fast as I can spray, so no dry time between layers and also no cure time to worry about

gundam assemble model of guntank

back view of guntank

Bought some ProAcryl paints to try out. First time using actual water acrylics. Still did the base colors with lacquer thru and airbrush tho

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it's from the artifact series

Gundam Artifact Nightingale (hygogg color scheme)

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WIP Gundam Artifact Nightingale

Went with a no-mask fix-later approach. I'm finding that all the over spray is making is hard for me to tell if I like the direction the model is progressing. Also not liking how hard it is to predict the result color when pre-shading.

drove well the other weekend

Making some progress on this Gundam artifact nightingale. at this scale you can get pretty far without doing any sort of masking. need to decide what my base color is going to be

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mission complete

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it also won't crack plastic because it's just thinned with water, but that does mean you need to seal it with topcoat

yesterday I tried panel lining using ak weathering pencils. they're water soluble so u can grind the pencil wet into a paint tray and then apply it with a thin brush, then clean up with a wet cotton swab. more tedious but more forgiving

this is astaroth origin from an IBO side story

I should go back and panel line mine

lemme just