MG EX-s Gundam modeled by Beckylaw

The Queen of Gunpla has finished another flawless work. ZeroGunz long time member / moderator and MAC forums VIP member BeckyLaw of Malaysia, has just finished a flawless commission work on a MG EX-s Gundam. 

As always, Becky did a great job on the finishing of the kit and her photography is always perfect ( she is a photographer in real life ). The color tones are faithful and brilliant at the same time. Anyways, a ton more photos of her flawless commission work inside our MAC forums as always. Here is the link guys...

MG EX-s Gundam modeled by Beckylaw

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Ebasenet Head GB - Turn A last WIP update

Almost done! This is my entry for the Ebasenet / ZeroGunz Head Group Build and I managed to almost finish it last night. In comparison to the previous update, The overall color of the Turn A head is a bit warmer and rustic looking. I basically added more washes to the head and used the RED Future variant as the overall flat top coat.

The Red Future ( Pledge Wipe and Shine ) acts as a very soft filter as it is a light clear red in color. It blended all the weathering effects added to the kit thus giving it a more realistic look. The ground work was painted with my airbrush and a lighter tone of the groundwork was also sprayed around the edges of the Turn A head to serve as dust effects.

I also painted the soldiers in Tamiya acrylics and will have to paint all the details with a fine brush. I decided to give the figures a blue uniform as khaki and greens are too realistic to me. Hopefully the blue uniforms will give the whole diorama a more SCI FI look.

Enamel washes around the corners of the groundwork, pastel work on the Turn A head and detail painting of the figures will complete this build. This will be the last WIP update for this build and hope to finish this soon. Anyways here are some snapshots of the progress so far...

Thanks for dropping by! Til' next post! :)

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Turn A head painting - EPIC FAIL!

The painting of the Turn A was an absolute epic failure! I tried the Hairspray Technique to produce some nice effects and because I did not add salt on the corners, the overall paint chipping effect was too much. I basically came up with a totally rusted head.

As much as I want this to be heavily weathered, the results of the painting was way too much for the effect I was trying to achieve. I also added some cast iron textures before the painting. The texture won't be cast iron but I figured that because of the scale of the build, I do have to put more evident textures for the rust painting later.

You do not want rust over a silky smooth surface do you? I think the paint chipping failure and the cast iron texture will both give the head some interesting textures for the weathering later. I do not like to come up with a weathered build with rust over a smooth surface. Doing weathering on a smooth textureless surface would result to an unpainted BUT weathered look.

I then re-primed the kit and then eventually painted it flat black as the base color for the airbrushing soon.   I like using flat black as base color as the hard to reach crevices would remain black and I won't really need to bother painting them. Anyways here are more photos of the progress so far...

Thanks for dropping by! Til' next update! :)

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1/35 Tieren Ground Type WIP

I was thinking about my entry in the ZeroGunz Weathering versus Metallic GB and figured that using a kit in 1/144 scale is not so good for weathering techniques like paint chipping and such. I personally think that applying some washes and some dry brushing will already make a 1/144 kit look weathered. Kinda boring...

Even dry brushing if done too much will be too out of scale for a 1/144 scale, simply put I will be too limited, weathering wise if I stick to the 1/144 scale. So I thought of converting the 1/144 Tieren ground type into a 1/35 Tieren with an exposed 1/35 military figure as the head. The Tieren is now good for any type of weathering done with tanks and such. 

I glued on some 1/35 guns / rifles to give it a more 1/35 feel to it, will then slap some MSG koto parts for extra detailing and will add some battle damage effects all over. Will take better photos before and after priming. Now here are more photos of the 1/35 Tieren so far...

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