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My Work
Topic Started: Mar 19 2015, 12:38 PM (232 Views)
Reza
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SO here's the WIP for my Gundam. The base is a ReZEL.

Phase 1
 
Currently I just assembled the frame, did minimal sanding, drilled the insides so I can take it apart and paint it eventually... It won't be using the weapons or look like this even in the end. For fun since I don't care about the weapons the kit came with I made a beam whip out of the runner the pink/clear parts come from.

I'm a big advocate of using everything in the kit, even the runners. I chopped off the clear bit, shaped it with an xacto, then stagged cuts to the core with nippers. Then you just bend it out and you get that cool spikey laser weapon effect.

Phase 1


Phase 2
 
I need to obtain pla plate and begin forming new parts. I will be customizing the shoulders, creating a new booster/back system which will be the sole weapons of the gundam and then I will be adding detailed paneling to the body.


Phase 3
 
Painting time.

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The first gunpla I ever built. It's a bit rough, but it's about to get some love. I'll be stripping off the paint/re-sanding, filling cracks, and all-around upping it using the skills I've acquired since. (Not that much better, but back then I didn't even sand pieces. I'd take them off the rutters, fiddle with an xacto and move on.)

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I'll be taking that RGM Ground shield and actually attaching it to the shoulder. Using styrene I'll be working out some new shoulders (and making a holster for a physical sword.

When done I'll be running a Orange/Grey paint scheme.
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lookin' good. instead of sanding you could wash the plastic with water and some soap to help the paint stick to the plastic more easily.
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I'll get back on whatever I did to take the paint off.
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thats more of a thing you do when all the pieces are on the sprues before building it.
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I mean, it's an old already built kit so?
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just a tip you could use for future projects.
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Oh do you mean sanding? I know that xD

I meant sand the paint off, that's why I was confused.

EDIT: Oooh, okay I see.

So about two (more like one and a half years ago) I built this RGM-79. It was my first, and I didn't sand the nub marks. (Which I know is a mistake.) I also painted it in gundam markers and it also looks plain meh for paint job/build quality.

What I mean is that, in the coming months, I'm going to disassemble this old kit. Clean it up. Strip the paint (via sanding or Windex or whatever method works). Fabricate some new styrene parts/detaiiling. Repaint via Airbrush and spray cans.
Edited by Reza, Apr 4 2015, 10:46 PM.
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Alright boys and girls. Isopropyl alcohol did the trick and stripped everything well :)

My Styrene + Glue is in the mail for tonight, so, after a soap bath, I'll get to gluing on custom pieces, and then tomorrow, I'll pick up some primer and let'er rip
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