As my Kshatriya will be painted in many shades of military green, I did quite heavy preshade this time with Tamiya LP Black. Inner parts were covered by Tamiya LP Dark Iron – I love this color – picture will not show it – but it looks generally like old iron part 🙂
All parts were cleared with warm water mixed with dishwasher, then I left it for overnight drying. As you can see – there are no binders/wings parts. I decided to split project in half and start with painting mobile suit without wings first. Sooo many clamps! Ready for primer. Gray MR Surfacer 15000 applied –…
MonoEye, mega particle cannons was quite easy to drill in.Other parts requires more attention and a lot of patience to cut through fragile resin… I did my best – it went how it went…I removed a lot of resin from inside to fit the cabling – general idea is to connect everything within hollow body…
The project is getting more and more complicated… I was thinking over night about adding some light to the model…I tried with one 5mm LED and drilled in one of the thrusters – damn… now I need to drill all 12…. Don’t have any idea how to and where I will hide cabling and etc.…
Allright – the time has come to deal with the biggest challange so far. Hot and really (almost boiling) hot water was used to heat up big resin parts of the binders and then I was able to gently adjust all bends and misalignments. Then I did same for smaller armor parts – now I’m…
The model is designed with really long peg joints that secures each foot – I was always wondering when looking at finished models about ankles – looks quite awkward and hmmm empty… so I decided to shorten the pegs and limit free space around ankles. After some test fit I found proper lenght. To make…
The details within legs internal structure are just bagging for show. I started to think how to fix leg armor and make it removable… I decided to go with some magnets that will keep armor in place. This is it! Additionally, I added hard plastic rods for legs hinges – in fact I believe that…
Allright! Let’s start big project – one of the most charismatic mobile suits – Neo Zeon NZ-666 Kshatriya from Gundam Unicorn anime.As in previous post – the model is Universal Century, 1/100 Full Resin kit.All parts require special treatment, cleaning from post production pieces of resin etc.I started to clean pieces one by one and…
Today is my birthday – I just receive a box from Samuel Decal with first big resin fullkit – NZ-666 Kshatriya Recast from UC/Universal Century in 1/100 scale.I literally fell in love with this model – like from first sight ;-)! I’m not fan of original Kshatriya, UC Recast model silhouette is more streamlined, the…
Weathering and details – I love this part – its time consuming but its very satysfying as those small things brings ”reality„ And a bit of storytelling into miniature. Beside details – and bit of wear on giant rocket, I added some more photoetched parts to technical arms. Now my PsychoZaku looks way better –…