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| commandercool:
While I was out yesterday I ended up picking up my first Gundam kit, a 1/100 Barbatos from Iron Blooded Orphans (which I'm watching right now and it's so goooood). I put it together yesterday with no trouble, but painting it really has me flummoxed. Particularly, the wells for those red logo things on the shoulder pauldrons and knee armor. I've tried paint markers and acrylic paint, and the wells are too wide and thin so there's nothing to latch onto to try to keep my lines straight, and if I try to just smear over them and then blot the paint off of the armor like I did with the chest logo I end up wiping it out of the wells as well because they're so wide. What's the best way to paint these spots? I don't have any masking tape on hand and I'll grab some tomorrow, but the shapes seem irregular enough that it might be really difficult to mask off properly. Also, am I supposed to seal this when I'm done painting it? I typically use automotive sealer when I paint miniatures and it can kind of change the quality of the paint and the plastic, so I'm worried about it clouding up all of the unpainted white parts of the armor and making them look weird. Are these kits designed to take sealer or should I leave them unsealed and just be careful not to scratch the paint? Pictures to come once I get this paint situation hammered out. It won't be anything impressive, but it let those of you who know how this stuff works point out thing I missed at least. |
| Mеа:
I'd love to give my input to offer you help but the one time I tried painting a custom gunpla was when I bought an hg 00 and reborns gundam and then stuck the wing binders with the gn drives from the 00 onto the latter to create a monstrosity with 4 gn drives. Did I mention it was my first time painting a model? I used those hobby paint things and painted them with a brush which unfortunately made the parts so thick that my model handled like clumps of refrigerated fat. So yeah, no, sorry |
| Hello Purvis:
Have any luck hunting for online guides? |
| commandercool:
--- Quote from: Purji Costavis on June 06, 2016, 09:52:43 AM ---Have any luck hunting for online guides? --- End quote --- Not really. Everything I've looked at so far is waaay more advanced than this and just assumes that you've already completely mastered the basics. I did pick up a few small tricks I'm going to try, but I don't really need high-level techniques right now and that's most of what I found. I did read that rubber eraser might be useful for cleaning up paint marker and I'm going to give it a shot, but I'm a bit skeptical of that. |
| Zerviscos:
Congratulations. Once you start collecting, and painting models, you'll have a hard time going back. I used to read this when I started out. http://www.dannychoo.com/en/post/213/Gundam+Modeling+Tutorial.html |
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