Still on the masking stage.

As expected a few more paint lifting problems.

Repainted the parts with paint lifting issues and last stretch of masking.

Metallics and clear colors (green) applied. 

Painted the red parts with Gaianotes Bright Red.

Fortunately this time no paint lifting occurred. 

Started applying yellow on the parts.

Also applied dark gray for the internals and gloss black as base coat for the metallics that will be sprayed later on.

Hello Murphy! Im not sure if its the quality of the resin but paint (even Gaianotes Lacquers) are having a hard time staying on the surface, even I left it for 3 days to dry and cure.

Blue parts also painted. 

Primed both plastic and resin parts with Mr. Surfacer 1200.

Parts coated with base white (Gaianotes Lacquer Paints).

After the first round of putty + sanding + primer there are still some surface imperfections of the resin parts. Here are some of the photos;

 

 

 Parts that needs a second round of cleaning.

 

 

Primed all the resin parts making all the casting flaws more visible. Unfortunately 80-85% of the parts have problems like this.

Applied putty, and sanded all resin parts. Will prime again to check again for errors.

I will be selling these 2 kits and all of the profit will be donated to the victims of typhoon Yolanda. 

Price:5,000.00 Php

For inquiries and transaction details pls contact: 

Name: Aion Agustin

Address: Las Pinas

Email: mechaiondesigns@gmail.com

Contact no: 09214807162

*Will accept payments via Bank Deposit (Banco De Oro), Paypal or COD

Reinforcing some parts that are prone to breakeage with 0.5mm styrene sheets.

 

Decided to just replace the warp verniers with Kotobukiya after market parts.

Weapon/s assembly. Some parts have fitting issues and quite deformed maybe due to packaging.

This is the main attachment for the wings. Quite sturdy but some areas are quite thin and needs to be strengthen, maybe I'll glue some PS sheets later.

Badly deformed, will either clean or just replace it with Kotobukiya after market parts.

The wings.

Wave copper wire/rods for pinning.

 

Pinning some of the parts of the back pack and wings.

After pinning, the whole wing assembly can hold itself a bit better but still needs to be fixed after painting.

Wing assembly when opened.

Leg Assembly: encountered some fitting problems on the knee armor, the lower part is badly recasted and needs some major carving/shaving in order to fit properly.

 Arms Assembly: again there were some fitting problems, but a bit easier to solve than the knee armor parts.

Shoulder Assembly: fitting is good, just need some pinning and putty to smoothen some deformed surface.

The kit as of this stage, peronally I'm quite digging it. Very sexy proportions.

Just a little bit of update. Started dry-fitting the kit and its not that pretty. Encountered some problems along the way which will definitely slow this build. Here are some of them;

 Since this is a recasted garage kit, the surface quality is not that good, will need priming and lots of sanding to make the surface smooth and ready for painting.

There are also fitting problems, this one for example; the resin part wont fit the frame of the Bandai kit, it needs some drilling and slicing in order for them to fit perfectly.

 There are also some broken parts, so far this is the only one.

Lots of excess resin materials to be trimmed and cleaned.

Since there are fitting problems most of the backpack parts needs to be pinned and refitted. 

   

So far here's how it looks. Still a long way to go.

 

 

Latest commission build. Bandai MG Wing Gundam Ver. Ka + resin Wing 0 conversion kit. This will be a priority build so all ongoing projects will be put on hold. So far everything looks good, packaging of the 3rd party parts is great, also comes with metal thrusters and a small decal sheet. I'll try post updates as much as i can.