currently, im busy doing plastic modelling once again! i havent touched on painting and customising my nerf gun yet, not to mention my calculator needs a new paint job! (it kinda looks worn out) so yeah. onto my new plastic model, the Gundam 00-00 transparent! this time, i decided to give it a paint job, in a different way~!

what did i use? this.


the paint and stuffs are from hobby art :) and ALL the parts, except for the black ones are painted WHITE. dont use colours like blue or whatsoever for the other coloured parts! it will turn out horrible! white allows the contrast of the colour to be there, just what we want. :) if you use blue paint against blue, you cant really see the details anymore.

a month plus back, i saw this model in the Gundam exhibition that has like an extra layer of plastic over it, allowing it to show some mechanical detail! i was wondering what the modeller did man. at first, i thought it was by plastic surgery -.- as in making new plastic parts, but i happened to figure it out that i was painted in the inside instead! so i decided to give it a go~ first time painting it in the inside o.o


i used gaia paint, and i painted the insides of the plastic pieces before they are cut out from the plates. like this, it wont really pose much of a problem if i am painting the individual parts, only to find one missing! and such a model, they cant possibly provide extra parts..

total i did the painting 3 times, as in 3 layers. so its just paint and dry, paint and dry.. some of the parts required 4 layers x.x kinda troublesome, but oh well, at least it allows the model to look good!


this is how its like when its done, it looks exactly the same as an ordinary plate of white plastic parts. yup yup!


oops this is how my first coat of paint on the insides look like, its still translucent! so you gotta keep painting it till its totally opaque. thats the best. use thick paint.. try not to over dilute it, usual stuffs, about 1:1 for the mixture of paint and thinner.


this is how it looks like when its all done up! from the front, which is the same view as when looking at the model after it has been all painted up :) and fixed of course.


and...viola~! thats how it looks like :) thats just the o raiser part, im kinda lazy to do the gundam itself! did it till the chest only :P haha! so feel like starting on the calculator paint job. (gonna be real tough!)

oh yes, and once i paint the insides, its really tough to fit the parts together! you kinda find them really really tough shoving the pieces together. my way of solving it? use the ball of your feet to click it together! forget the hand. you will kinda be drained out once you finish the whole gundam.

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