TimMather

right had the afternoon off, had a look for pastels. and saw these mr color sets of pastels, i bought the pink and the purple, but couldnt find the green set anywhere. id really like to have all of them haha. but got the 2 so thats the paint sorted, will figure out which to use once the get here from asia. so enough with the planning, have a ton of parts to sand, i swear that most of my life as a modeller is sanding nubs.

really nice, love the contrast of the black metallic parts.

Time to throw everything except the kitchen sink at a sinanju! so a master grade 1/100 sinanju, a side3 resin armor upgrade kit and a full metal parts kit as well. master grade sinanju side3 resin armor upgrade kit.. the resin is the most perfect casting ive ever seen, also one of bonuses i didnt know when i bought it is it also comes with an extra bazooka and 2 gatling guns so you can fit the bazooka and the gatlings to shield. the great thing is about that is i can fit the plastic kit bazooka and machinegun together and hold that in the other hand, so it will be dripping with weapons haha. you are also given 8 metal barrels that fit to the gatlings, which is a nice touch. the metal parts upgrade kit, which is mostly 3 part thrusters and watch screws, there are 2 versions of the kit you can go with red thruster bells or gold ones, i went with gold as it would give me more options if i didnt want to go with the standard red color scheme. got a standard sheet of 3rd party decals, an alternative sinanju decal sheet which i just bought because of the silver logos, only cost a quid so not bothered if i dont use them. and i also have got a mega huge 1/60 sheet i bought for the logos to use on another kit ive got, but if needs be i can use one or two of these huge logos. standard size, sorry for crappy pic... and this oversized huge set lastly, ive just bought i different set of fuel tanks for a sazabi verka kit. so i will have a set of tanks free to use on this, il try to use them, but have to see if the will fit as they are alot fatter than the ones that come with the kit, they would look great but will have to see if they can squeese in place. so thats what ive got to work with PAINT. im still thinking of what i want to do, ive been enjoying doing glossy builds lately but i think the extra panel line detail and the use of shiny details(thrusters and pins) i nice matt paint scheme would give better contrast. as for colors im not sure yet, just know i want pastels, lol lots of pastels haha

thanks fella, its abit flashy but i think it suits the model.

hay, heres photos of my kotobukiya super robot wars serena kit. I used gaia metal finish paints gaia white lacquers the purple was a black gloss base, then i put some color changing pigment( http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEPTUNE-CHAMELEON-FLIP-PAINT-PIGMENT-ULTRA-VIOLET-TO-NEON-BLUE-RL71-MATCH-/251838852562 ) into gaia gloss clear. upgrades... i used metal thrusters and i used 2 kotobukiya "beast" swords. fun build, the photos dont do the color changing justice also cant do a proper photo set up as we are having building work done at the moment.

you should get away with it if its only $45 total spent, i heard there is quite a backlog though.

not sure im guessing but is probably transformable.

so trawling through toabao looking for stuff that i really cant afford and came across this unicorn bust that is in pre-order no release date yet or price tag, but as its non bandai i expect a reasonable price. not a huge fan of the unicorn, but i love the size of this full bust. here is a ton of pics. im definitely getting this.

understandable, many friends in UK and US have ordered from him and had no problems and not knowing the postage before hand is abit lame. but doubt youll have any problems getting it later from ebay,

:Tasty: lovely

ah cool, post up when they come through. i like to see macross kits

i think samual decal is doing pre orders, i think he said they were $38 but that was ages ago, may be more now?

Feel free to post up your scifi deliveries when you get them. il start, here is my latest taobao delivery. metal parts and decal for my utopia cast gerbera tetra... a huge 2 sheet decal for a 1/60 sinanju, got it for the same price as 1/100 sheet, under 3 bucks! just bought it for the big logos. also got this sinanju 1/100 silver sheet, just wanted to for those silver logos, quality is rather crap but not that bothered, it was worth a punt. rotory file set to counter sink metal screws and photoetch. 2 sets of screws. and 2 sets of photoetch to customize vents. a metal parts dress up kit for MKIII RE 1/100 4 sets of photoetch. 3 hologram sticker sheets. and tamiya decal scissors. side3 sinanju upgraded armor resin conversion kit. you seeing a theme here? lol also the sinanju metal thrusters dress up kit. this is why i love taobao, you can buy parts, here are the 1/100 red astray katanas i bought, and yes the a genuine bandai, not nasty bootleg. also got rg zero wing, wing parts. finally also got these kotobukiya swords from a friend delivered as well.

didnt know that those clear parts are infact leds and it comes with them in the kit!

if i see a review, il post it here. but probably not going to get this any time soon.

it is not about hating all klingons, it is about stopping illegal klingons taking jobs.

loving the decals

hard to tell if this is so bad, the skirts dont look good, but i guess it is hard to tell until it is painted properly. it is crying out for weathering though.

looks awesome.

hay this is a guide to setting up a bhiner account to buy modelling supplies, kits, hard to find resin kits, photo etch, tools, decals, anything other than paint and liquids as postage from bhiner is always different types of airmail so no liquids or flamables. ok so taobao is a internal chinese selling website abit like ebay or amazon, the website is for china only, you can look on it but the sellers dont do international shipping, so you need a 3rd party agent (bhiner) to buy things. you can get just about anything and many things for modelling that are hard to find outside of china, alot cheaper than anywhere else. seam scrapers for £1, photo etch for £2, metal parts and thrusters about half price of ebay, decals for £2, ect ect. it is a gold mine for gundam and scifi modellers, but is useful for other types of modelling but not sure of how good the savings are for stuff related to your type of modelling. so il tell you how bhiner works then walk through the process. so after signing up to bhiner, you can buy items, they will be sent to bhiner and saved in their warehouse to build up a big package or send as soon as item gets to the warehouse. so after signing up to bhiner you can search for stuff you want on taobao using bhiner search bar or look directly on taobao, id say it is best to look on taobao as you can search easily in modelling shops, id suggest you use google chrome browser as they have a translate feature and after finding what you want you can copy and paste the taobao address of item into bhiner search bar to find and buy on bhiner. the bhiner website will ask for quantity and if there are options for item choose what you wish and "add to cart" now, once you have the item or items in cart, you can check out straight away or "quote items" which just means someone at bhiner will confirm the price before buying. once you have paid for item the order will be moved for the orders page. on the orders page will be a list of all the items that are on their way to the warehouse or at the warehouse(the items at the warehouse will have a photo next to them taken by bhiner staff showing the actual item) and when want your things posted to you just send them a message with what shipper you want to go with and they will get a quote pay that and you are done. something to note is when you pay for your postage you can alter the marked value of the package, last month i got a £300 package through customs with just a £14 customs charge, which would have been £72. hope this helps, it really isnt as confusing as it first looks.

tut tut tut, haha only kidding, its good isnt it. if you have trouble getting a decal sheet let me know, i could get one from taobao.

thanks guys, made a few mistakes, had a little silvering that im not totally happy with. would really like a better camera. but over all did some new things that worked out well.

final photos for this build. I changed the feet as i didnt like the look of them, also did afew mods and metal etch parts

no they were ok to the paint, they are no where near as sticky as masking tape, i was worried about bleed through so used neat paint, which worked ok.

thanks guys. il give him a photoshoot with some cool poses, but done building with him. onto something new, probably something with a neo zeon sign.