HG 1/144 1.5 Gundam (Black Ice Custom) Review - Part 2

This is a continuation of this post here.

Sorry that this post took a while to get up. I was a little preoccupied with a certain SCII for a bit the past few days. Played through the campaign but I kinda feel meh about the story. Roughly a good end I can say.

At any rate, there won't be as many shots this time around since a painted Gunpla is hard to move around without scratching it too much. That and the body is a bit hard for the camera to see properly. XP
I did have to touch up some sections, using marker, from time to time due to small scratches though - just the black parts. I can't really do anything for the other colored parts though. Ah well, but the metallic paint seem to be more scratch resistant than the normal paint.

Note: The ones with the white backdrop are newer since I felt a lot of the photos taken after a while were "too dark".

Read on.

Read more »

"Black Ice/ブラックアイズ Complete!

Not bad for a second try, huh? Not as great as I would like but good enough for a novice like me. ^^;
If you're wondering why the backpack isn't on yet, that's because of a mistake I made with the backpack... due to the paint, it wasn't move-able so I had to thin out the area after forcing it off (the GN Drive slot area). Fixable so it isn't a big deal in the end.

I also decided to change the orientation of the waist unit so the rear skirts becomes the front skirts while the front skirts become the rear skirts. A better method of hiding the hips, ne?

Sorry about the dust in the photos, dust just accumulates like bunnies on my work desk. :/

I might not post the review that quick but expect it sometime next week. Huu... looks like I'm going to Spring tomorrow for a "visit". *Checks reserves.* <_<>_>

Bonus!

>D

Almost...

Phew, I'm almost done but don't think it will be done very soon. I've been sprayin' since yesterday and only done, hm, about 60% of the body.

Flat black isn't so easy to use though since if it comes out too thick (I don't have much control over the spray technique yet), it leads to a bit of bleeding. Luckily, it is at a less noticeable area. I tried to fix it up (strip and re-paint) but the bleeding still happened. ^^; I'll let you guys guess which part of the body it is later when the whole thing is done but overall, the paint is coming out pretty nice, especially the metallic violet blue. Hehe. Wished I could get metallic purple instead, would have looked oh so much evil.

The shield is practically done. Thought of doin' some masking to make the "inner frame" colors (underside of the shield, skirts, etc) but the cheap masking tape doesn't seem to work as well as I'd hoped so I'll just let it be simple for now. That or I might do some manual painting for those details if I feel like it after the sprayin' is all done.

Preview of the head. Not yet entirely done but I just assembled it to see how the black and silver trim came out. ^^ Yes, SILVER TRIMS. (Haven't done the gray areas yet and the blue areas are about half done.) Going with the blue eyes for this one since it fits better than purple due to the obvious colorings.

That's all folks. Don't expect a very clean paint job when I'm done though but IMHO, it looks alright... from the right distance. :P

NG 1/100 Gale Strike Gundam (CUSTOM Ver. rndm) Review

On Friday this week, I bought the NG Gale Strike in a great and ray decision to mode it to my liking and satisfaction. To know more about what I did, please read the first WIP and second WIP. I won't really call it a WIP per say as all of it was done in one fell swoop of one day! So, it is technically a Work in Super Fast Progress. XD

At any rate, read the review over at my Wordpress blog but it is pretty long and detailed for a simple NG review though. XP

Things of Note

Okay, time for another update... but not really an update for the blog.

For a while now, I've been chatting with some of the bloggers from my blogroll in this chat room. It is mostly active during the night time (M'sian/S'pore time, GMT +8). So, if any of you readers want to be poisoned into buying stuff from the dark side, have some crazy random chatting fun or whatever, come here!
This room is created by our dear friend Tsukinari who is also a M'sian blogger. If you haven't visited his blog, why don't you go there now? Be careful of the current WISP on the MG GN-X. XD

Besides that, if you have been paying attention lately, there was some crazy activity going on at my alternate blog on Wordpress. Do pay a visit and comment (if you can) when you see the feed on the top left gets updated once in a while. Currrently, the WIP for my Gale Strike Custom is there. Do read it up for some crazy random doings. >D

Okay, that's all for this very small and minor post. Please read the Unicorn Mode Review Part 2, if you haven't, to read a comic strip I did. Hope you all like it!

PS: Happy Chinese New Year! May all you can get ang-pau... get a lot! Buy buy buy! XD