TimMather

it is great, it fits perfectly have not needed to do anything other than clean up, parts will be glued in place when finished. yep they do a jesta, sinanju stein and also a sazabi. yep its green, minty milkshake green, the pink will work, all the colors will work once its all together, just need some faith. so the innerframe is gloss white, which was a nightmare to do. i wanted it nice and glossy and not have any fitting issues so i did what i always do and skip primer which means i need less paint to make shiney finish, its just that the white mr color lacquer doesnt cover and lay it on too thick and it pools and the edges of dark plastic show through. so every single piece took about 5 or 6 coats of paint! ive done a whole big bottle of gx mr color today just on these parts, nightmare. but its done, now have to spray a few little bits metallic and then hand paint some details and perhaps use some of the many photoetch round parts ive got as well. normally i would put everything together once its done, eg once painted would put all the legs together then get on with upper body. but on this model i really want to photograph the inner frame on its own which means i have to wait to have everything painted before i put together. so coming upto a third of the way through. lol still so much to do!

got new camera set up and finally got some good pics of this.

so got a new camera and did a nice photoshoot this evening.

dont forget its concept art, nothing from an actual movie, even if there is a movie, sazabi might not even be in it?

ok, was a busy weekend, i did a few more bits of hand painting and masking and used pink, it was a great idea it brought everything together, so after that i started on the decals, as i said above ive got lots of decals for this, i mainly wanted the big oversized logos. i think i spent 12 hours yesterday doing decals. had a few more warning decals to do this morning but, im just about finished placing them. some are silvered so for the next few days i will be just keep alppying the microsol and percing bubbles with a pin. after that il put a quick coat of clear over then do panel lining. heres some pics. misspelling on the logo or that an A and an N look the same, anyway did a mod

thanks fella. so once everything was painted the other day it was too green, i know that painting things gloss makes everything a shade darker which will lighten once a flat clear goes on but i still wasnt happy with the mane color, so saturday i masked off all the panels i wanted to keep as a highlight then went over with the lighter mint green i mixed up. i think it looks alot better. the photos at night under my work the paint doesnt look great. today i was thinking of either a different color, or a creamy color, i lost my nerve and went for the safe option, i think the gods were trying to tell me something as the creamy duckeggg color for some unknown reason curdled, which i just dont understand at all? ive used it before on the garbaldy resin kit and it worked fine, yet now 6months later it curdles, very odd? thankfully i use universal thinners for all my cleaning, so the curdled paint just melted out with those thinners. so this that idea out of the window and being told by the modelling gods to be brave use a color, i mixed up a yellow, with gaia sunshine yellow and gaia pure white, at first peeling off the masking i didnt like it, i thought it didnt match, its only when i tried to imagine big white decals with it and the flat coat over it that i thought yeah itll work. now an hour later i love it, i grasp it, it will work. now im picturing it, i think i could even add another color. id like peoples thoughts, can you see it the way i do?

got the framearms girl yesterday and the skell came in this morning, another month and not bought anything from bandai. the girl kit is awesome, it comes with a eggplane that you stick on her back, abit silly but i love it. the skell kit is abit small and totally over priced, i could have got a zoids kit with double the plastic for the same price, i think im just paying for the license!

bloody hell, that is huge.

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right, its been a nightmare this week, new windows fitted throughout the house and ive been itching to get on with things and is always the way the builders get half way through work and say they will be back next week to finish it off. which means i still cant clear up as ive got to keep all the access to the windows in the house clear. but anyway everything is cluttered but managed to say F it and cleared some room to do a bit of painting. so started on the hard job of the armor, i used alclad white primer which went down a dream, it dries fast so after 2 hours priming all the parts i can then get on with putting the color down. went with the emerald green, but now all the parts are sitting on sticks it seems too green and not pastel enough. once everything was painted i had used half the bottle of green and then put a load of white of same brand into the green, it gave a much nicer lighter mint green(i did some parts in that lighter color shown in photos) so may blast everything in this lighter shade when i next paint. need to get these windows done then have a proper clean and tidy up before i start the masking off to paint different colors. hopefully next update will be neater .

its definitley sazabi.

this concept art by artist who has worked on many hollywood films including jupiter ascending and other scifi films uploaded this one render with the tag line "unannounced project" and the title 0731 i just hope they dont tease and tease this like they did with the halo movie that never got made. anyway its an awesome piece of art.

hay, im not a aircraft or jet builder, i build scifi kits and could reallly do with some help locating a good place or just pointing in the right direction of where to buy photoetch thrusters/jet exhausts or what ever you like to call them. ideally not photoetch upgrades but full exhausts? i dont mind sizes as i do a range of kits in different sizes and shapes. would prefer not to waste money on other parts that i wont use so wondered if there is a place just to get exhaust upgrades. only thing ive found so far is these ones by eduard for b1 bomber. just wondered if there is more out there?

i thought it was good, alot better than the critics said. i agree the joker was the worst part of it, as if the joker would run to get harley, whoever wrote that it was stupid. it makes the joker look a needy boyfriend who picks their girlfriend up when shes out getting drunk, the type of loser that always wants to know where his girlfriend is, the type that forgives his girlfriend for cheating and makes excuses. it make joker look weak. by the way, ever seen this? its where ledger got the idea for the joker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETgh7I6TEeI

right, just drilled afew holes in the back of the feet, and thought it needed something else. so just used the off cuts and trimmed the into fin type bits and glued, not amazing but should look alittle better. and so with that done, ive put all the plastic in to soak. i want a super shiney finish so will not be using any primer for the inner frame and will just do lots of coats of gloss white lacquer, so all the plastic needs to be really clean and free of mold release, so will soak for a while. now lets talk about the resin, its been soaking in degreaser for 9 days and still had a sheen, this has never happened before , 4 or 5 days at the most, so yesterday i sanded all the mold release off, i like to keep things as good as poss but had to, it just was not shifting. anyway it is sitting in soapy water with the plastic so il rinse off tomorrow. then once it is dry can get on with doing some painting, talking of which, i got some paint through the post the gaia emerald green is screaming at me, so pretty sure il go with that as the main paint.

right here is my haul, got 2 orders of paint, the mr color pastel set from US amazon, and gaia and mr color from ladypata on ebay. and my taobao haul. loads of bits and bobs and 4 books, also the master grade unicorn full armor parts/fuel tanks to use on the sazabi gundam kit.

love this, cant wait to see more.

just got a delivery from taobao. not had time to photograph everything, but had to show off this book, it is awesome. all artists renders of cool mecha scifi stuff, great for ideas, paint schemes and custom work.

so still messing around with bits and bobs, this resin is being a real pain and mold release has taken a week to come off, really think i should invest in one of those ultrasonic cleaners, anyway thought i would look into the backpack fuel tanks, i could have used the plastic ones, the resin ones or tried something else. the resin ones are a last resort, as they are super heavy solid resin that would make things really back heavy(not good) as i said before i have bought the master grade unicorn full armor backpack kit with the huge fuel tanks to fit onto a sazabi when i make it, so can take the fuel tanks from the sazabi kit and use on this. had a quick look and half built the sinanju backpack just to see if the were ant fitment issues(as i thought the sazabi tanks maybe too wide) but they are fine. so will use them. fitting is super simple, just use the ball joint that came with the sinanju, sand everything down and then weld in place. then last night i remembered watching a video of how to put more detail on the sazabi fuel tanks just by using small semi circle pla-plate, i had some around so gave it a go, used the 3 pegs to line things up, once 3 were glued in place then would put other 3 in between. came out quite well considering how crap i am at scratch building. and will look great when painted. just as im writing this, ive got a delivery of one of the mr color pastel sets, so will need to make a post about paint soon.

FLANAGAN!!!!

sorry didnt notice replies. yes they are cat scratching boards, i use them when drying parts on sticks, they are useful as just trays to lay parts onto as well if you were after a couple, i bought from amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catit-Wide-Scratching-Board-Catnip/dp/B0032GEE8S/ref=sr_1_8?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1471088925&sr=1-8&keywords=cat+scratcher

so finished all the de-nubbing this evening. i put the resin parts in a de-greaser to soak, and thought id get on with prep for the metal parts. the metal parts didnt come with instructions of where to put the different sizes, but seeing how they were grouped up i figured out what went where. take off all these ball joints then drill out using correct size drill bit, super simple. really simple, ive labeled the parts when i put them back in bags and will glue in place after everything is painted. next i counter sunk some small thruster vents. then i got on with sorting out a crappy looking vent. so basically the red part keeps the yellow part in place, so there is no need for the 2 gray squares to pertrude, so i cut them off! once it is painted i will glue this mesh in place, then put the red part over and finally glue the yellow part in. finally did some drilling to a bit more interest to the non resin parts of armor. thanks for looking.

hay, sorry not had any updates. been busy sanding nubs. got 95% of the legs and waist resin and plastic de-nubbed. once it is all done il start the cutting and drilling for the metal parts. like i said above im going for a very japaneseasy kinda paint scheme, lots of pastel colors, watched a japanese music video the other day and it totally nailed what im going for... http://://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g so found all the mr color pastel sets in US amazon, for some reason they dont show up on UK version? but they take forever to get here. also ive got the idea to do something different with the inner frame, im going to do it all gloss white, had that idea last week and had to get some more mr color GX white from asia, so cant paint the inner frame either, lol. so i may prep the legs/waist then have nothing to do, so if that happens il start prepping the upper body.

looks really nice, actually quality is higher than i expected, should look great with paint and weathering

thanks.