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…
As I was planning to make side leg armor removable, I figured out how to connect leg thrusters and made solid connection that will handle disconnecting and connecting. I used small electronic connectors that I glued in place. Inside cables are going directly to Blue, blinking (candle effect) CRLEDs. Leds installed and operational! Three more…
I know that there should be pink eye, but I went with red LED – looks better in my opinion.I added small photoetched parts on head and around monoeye of Kshatriya – LOVE details! LEDs!!! MOOOOREEEE LEEEDDDSSS!!!!The body is taking shape. Photoetched meshes instalation continues…Other, rectangual ones are easy to prepare and fit. Leg thrusters…
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 –…
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 🙂
Time to put add some colors to leg details Main body colors in place. A BEAST!!!
Another layers of paints applied – this time is green-black and some metalic details. Somehow the designers have omitted machine guns on chest… I figured it out this way – its Kshatriya!
1h of masking and 15 minutes of painting… A bit lighter shade of green applied together with some gray for armor parts Parts combined together – it starting to look just right!!!
First shade of green applied – its from Tamiya LP range – I mixed some green colors to get base for my Kshatriya.In my opinion it looks fine! Preshade did the job – it subtle but visible enough. Additional decal set arrived – this one looks way better than original one…
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…