Tag Archives: Gundam

MG Shin Musha Gundam part 2

Gallery April 19, 2017 GN 1 Comment

This blog post has been a long time coming! Life keeps me busy, but over Easter I was able to get more paint on this very interesting kit.

The red pieces needed to go candy red. First step was to use Tamiya gunmetal as a base coat. This … Continue Reading ››

Completed Builds, HG

1/144 Barbatos

Gallery June 21, 2016 GN Leave a comment

1/144 Barbatos is a great kit. It's not perfect, but there's masses of detail and it goes together well. I love that you get the massive hammer with it, as well as the sword. A001_C001_0621L5_001

I'm pretty happy with the mods and the beat-up rusty look. Continue Reading ››

Completed Builds, HG

1/144 Barbatos part 4

Gallery June 17, 2016 GN Leave a comment

After some final touches of Tamiya weathering master, Barbatos was ready for his Alclad flat coat. Final assembly was mostly painless, although his right shoulder armour did pop off and have to be glued on. Here's some quick photos from the build area as it'll take me a little while to get set up for proper … Continue Reading ››

HG, Work In Progress

1/144 Barbatos part 3

Gallery June 15, 2016 GN 1 Comment

Now to what is getting to be my favourite part of a build - adding the oil paint.

I'm following a similar path to what I took on the Muv-Luv build using oil paint thinned with mineral spirits to build up the rusting effect.Continue Reading ››

HG, Work In Progress

1/144 Barbatos part 2

Gallery June 13, 2016 GN 1 Comment

After an extended break, I found some time at the weekend to get some work done on the 1/144 Barbatos.

I'd primed the pieces with Alclad grey primer, so all I had to do was mask the grey and paint the white, for which I used Alclad white … Continue Reading ››

Completed Builds, Misc

Hi-Resolution Barbatos Complete

Gallery April 5, 2016 GN Leave a comment

Hi-Resolution Barbatos is a strange and expensive beast, that's also a fine looking Gundam!

The frame is gorgeous, with nice articulation and loads of detail. What's disappointing is that you don't get to build it yourself.

If you built the frame … Continue Reading ››

Misc, Work In Progress

Hi-Resolution Barbatos

Gallery April 4, 2016 GN 1 Comment

It must be because I was really enjoying Iron Blooded Orphans so much that I decided to try out Bandai's latest line of model kits - "HiRM Hi-Resolution Model".

Box is nice and glossy.

Inside, the pre-built frame is hiding … Continue Reading ››

Custom Builds, HG, Work In Progress

1/144 Gundam Barbatos

Gallery February 1, 2016 GN 1 Comment

I don't think I'm the only person enjoying the new Gundam anime - Iron Blooded Orphans, but it's taken me a while to get to the kits, not least after first seeing the Barbatos design I had ideas of what to do with it.

Upon seeing that even … Continue Reading ››

Completed Builds, Misc

SD Neon Zeong

Gallery December 15, 2015 GN Leave a comment

If you've been reading my blog for a while, you'll know I started this kit way-back-when, but the paint job went wrong, and I couldn't get the paint stripped nice enough to my liking. Time being money, I bought a 2nd kit which took a while to come into stock.

Completed Builds, PG

1/60 PG Unicorn

Gallery June 5, 2015 GN 13 Comments

First a note on the decals. I'm using some 3rd party ones because this wonderful kit only ships with stickers. For Bandai to only put stickers in the box rather than additionally including proper water-slide decals is just not right. Yes, I know you can get them with the P-Bandai Full Armor upgrade pack, but … Continue Reading ››

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