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  1. Hikuro
    Toy shop Japan or something like that I'm guessing?
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    Had a talk with a guy at work who does LED wiring. We're playing with the idea of possibly removing the mono eye gimmick in my Zaku in replacement of a single LED wired to the backpack since it's mostly hallow inside. It looks entirely possible if we can find a small enough LED and housing for the batteries enclosed in the backpack.
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    1 does not simply become whelmed.
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    Never understood the need of mobile suits with high heel feet. Must be a spacenoid thing cause it's very ineffective on uneven terrain like.......an asteroid? I finished my Zakus frame. Came out great! No problems at all! It's just gonna go sit in the display shelf until I finish snipping, cleaning and organizing my parts. I threw in a bit of pow on the thrusters....I didn't metallize them exactly....I threw in some titanium silver with a coat of clear red to give it a titanium/metal look and it came out well! I'm certainly having more confidence in mixing and trying new ideas with paint than I did 10-15 years ago. Weather is going to be half decent over the weekend so I'd say a very good likelihood I'll have it all primed and painted Saturday then decal enhanced Sunday. I'll let you guys know!
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    Ending felt rushed but at least it was pretty. Can't believe next week is the final. Dunno how I feel about this series in whole until next week.
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    I think the question really is......which piece? Sometimes, they're just toast depending on where it broke. But like Nekko said, model cement melts polystyrene but do becareful. You technically only get one shot at it.
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    It's from the MG 2.0 line up. The Zaku got a lot of love from bandais designer team. The mono eye rotates as you turn the head left or right, the cooling piping is to layers, the cord is tucked through the beads that are color injected. So all you got to do is snip the gray parts and with a quick snap the beads follow whereas in old kits you'd have to cut each piece and feed it thru like in the RG line. The inner frame is multilayered like a lot of MGs are now. So there's lots of paint options you can apply to make it pop more. Tons of hyrdolic pistons....shoulders, neck, thighs, knees, foot and ankles. I do wish it had more parts separation on the armor. I wanted to really just RG color scheme this sucker but I can't without panel scribing the detail by hand and that's to advanced for my taste. I just got my GM 2.0 from my buddy Travis during his stay in New Hamphsire and I'll be using a mix of the GM decals with the Gundam 3.0 to give the kit more real details when I'm done with the zaku. I also just ordered little photo containers as they're super cheap and great to mix paints in.
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    Here's what I've been doing last 2 days. Flu researched images of those who did customized jobs on their Zakus and followed their patterns. Many of the Pistons are colored in titanium silver and gold colors. The minovsky reactor colored to stand out and mono eye with clear red then finished with a dry brush as I do sections.
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    I have no idea what was going on or being said.
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    hah, the one movie with some of the earliest CGI effects ever existed and not a single person in hollywood can touch it to F it up. Genius, pure genius.
  11. Hikuro
    bought this months ago........I think back in october. Haven't even watched it since I"ve seen it a dozen times fansubbed.
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    I.......have beat the snot out of it!
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    I don't like sitting around with nothing to do it drives me nuts. I really hate it when I have to wait on others if I'm gonna go do something I'm gonna go do it and if I have to wait then it's like my time is being wasted on others when I could get it done. So yeah, I mean I got a dozen kits to work on, I may as well start knocking some of them done right? This powered GM was inspired from a lot of desert battles in Australia, I think I might still have some stickers stored away that have the Australia base logo somewhere when I was doing the Perfect Gundam III. Next thing I'm going to do to this Gunpla is damage the shield. I'm going to carve a big gash and kind of try to melt it a bit showing signs that a heat hawk was to shallow in it's cut and couldn't go thru. Then just a bit of scaring on the shoulders and hip skirt, nothing major. I'll be done after that.
  14. Hikuro
    Just gotta find the right grays to do it. Also pumped this out today, ain't no big thang.
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    Compared to the earlier drafts of the G-Self which made it look some what more G-Savior like.....interesting isn't it? G-Savior....G-Self. Hmmmm? It's early drafts were very skeletal so my thinking was they planned just like the G-Savior to have many optional packs involved until a perfect form was reached. Even it's colors were very different. Almost very G-Lucifer in scheme. Yeah, paint came out well and evenly placed. No sloppy areas at all and I gave it a satin clear coat to keep the flavors of the colors nice and rich. I was glad I did that before I assembled it! That was one of the problems I had with the Sinanju, I didn't clear coat it before assembly and areas began to scrape against eachother in ways I didn't anticipate. So now code of conduct, finish a set of parts, clear coat, move on. It really took me about 5 hours to paint, set, clear coat, set and assemble after I did a day of priming and let it rest. The next full repaint will be the MS06J Zaku II.....I got a nice good vibrant Green and a much Darker version and I'll probably use Nato Black for the feet and elbows. For the GM 2.0 being a Dingo unit I'm perplexed as the colors have changed on the suits. The Dreamcast variant had a dark gray for the limbs and almost black for the torso and shoulders. Then the HG P-Bandai variants were almost all gray just a couple shades different from eachother....almost like a gray/white/blue mixture. Not sure which I should follow.
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    Yep, gotta a pretty good handle on airbrushing. Pretty soon I'll be trying out pre-shading probably on my GM 2.0. Only gotta buy some smoke. The G Self isn't a horrific kit as I was expecting when I got it. Sure it has a very heavy sticker sheet, it needs some additional paint to make it show accurate, and the backpack is kinda meh as it never really got much show time in the series. I honestly think I should of waited to of gotten that when the perfect pack shows up....whenever that will be. Didn't see much reason to have the UV stickers though.
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    still counts though.
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    All I have left to do is a wash and it's done. I used their one point technique to enhance the kit by using various left over stickers from other HG kits, luckily I had a 0 and a 3. Colors I used Flat White, Yellow and German Gray. For the red separations I did Flat Red with a small amount of Flat White to create a slightly lighter shade. Then for the darker areas I used same Flat Red again with a Flat Brown. Gotta say, I think I came pretty close to perfect colors.
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    Found my junk! someone did move it >_> I leave my stuff behind for a reason dangit! Primed my parts of the normal red next up I need to create the mixture for the darker red. I'm thinking Red with a small hint of brown.
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    I was priming my Red Warrior yesterday despite h aving a cold....I don't like laying down with nothing to do. Hoped I had enough but I guess I didn't but I knew I had another can of primer once it ran out. Guess what?! Not only can I not find it.....I can't find the new jars of Tamiya Red, Purple, Black, White, and 2 shades of Green..............I dunno who took it. But I will find them, and I will kill them.
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    aaaannnnd I lost all interest.
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    http://www.amazon.com/Just-Dab-Combo-Pack-Microbrush/dp/B000BPOJFG/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1426878928&sr=8-12&keywords=Microbrush+super+fine This is just to give you an idea of what I use. When I'm doing really small paint applications for extra detail or even pilot figures I use these Microbrushes at their Super Fine ratio. I get a pack of 10 for about 2.25 at hobbytown, and nearly any model shop carries some kind of brand in relation. I ALWAYS buy a pack when I go to the store. My mom has this phrase, "I see butter, I have to buy it, it's like a fetish" for me it's "I see these microbrushes and I gotta buy them.....not cause it's a fetish" The best thing to do is to just apply a small amount onto a container for your paint, never actually use the marker to apply on the part. Take one of these microbrushes on it then gently apply the needed area. You can even use these brushes on the rubbing alcohol to get tough areas. They're 1 time use sadly, but for their price and ability to get hard to reach locations, I highly recommend a set or two of different sizes. This is how I get some really good extra details painted on my kits for the last 2 years.
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    Ahhhhhh I see what ya did there! It'll be a complete repaint to really help bring those seperate reds to life. The tones are there in the plastic but it's still to subtle for my taste. The bad news is, I caught a cold : / well I didn't catch it, it invaded my being.
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    Well....my weekend is gonna consist of Amazing Red Warrior......I dunno how I feel about that honestly XD
  25. Hikuro
    He'll obviously be back as he's in the previews of the next episode hostage courtesy of captain cold. Barry will probably abuse this new power to fix mistakes creating that paradox point were all waiting for.
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