To my surprise, I received this rather large kit from my girlfriend on Valentine's Day. She got a diamond, I got a giant red Sazabi; seems like a pretty fair deal to me! So yeah, this is going to be my next project. Continuing the painting trend set forth by Deathscythe, I'm planning on airbrushing the whole kit in some custom colors. This will be my first time using an airbrush (I don't even have it yet) so I'm sure I'll mess up lots and hopefully it will be a good learning experience. I'm not 100% on the colors I'm going to use yet. I'll most likely spray some colors and see how they look first (I'm thinking light vermilion armor, dark bronze highlights, and a metallic black frame).
I've just straight built it with a loose fitting so that I can disassemble it later. All the nubs are filed and sanded down. It's nothing special to look at right now, but I thought I should have a set of 'before' photos to compare it to when it's all finished, so here's a 360:
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With rifle and shield:
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This thing is definitely huge. Head height is a little above Sinanju (although shorter when measured against Sinanju's thrusters), and a lot above all the rest. As always, RX-78-2 size comparison:
Looking forward to messing with the airbrush. The hand parts and some of the cable pieces are polycap material (there's also some visible polycaps on the back fuel tanks) and I'm not sure how those will react to paint. I'm not sure if I should prime all the pieces first. I'll be using Tamiya acrylic paints as the main coat, so maybe I should... I don't know, these be uncharted waters.
I've never had a polycap go bad due to being painted and I can say for certain that you'll be safe to paint the hands without primer since I never had any issues with mine.
ReplyDeleteThanks lupes, that's good to hear! Your Sazabi page is a good reference, it's helpful to see another painted kit
ReplyDeleteYour girlfriend is awesome. Giving you gunpla, not many women does that!
ReplyDeleteHahaha, I know! I'm sure she'll be happy to read that!
ReplyDeleteEnvy-ing... >.<
ReplyDeleteAnyway, looking forward for your Sazabi... or maybe you should try air brush on other thing first before go to this straight?
Haha, yeah that might have beeen a good idea... But I've already started to paint the inner frame! No looking back now!
ReplyDeleteGood lord.. I'm loving the shots you have here :O
ReplyDeleteThanks man, glad you like them! I'm glad my backdrop was large enough for Sazabi haha
ReplyDeleteawesome. sowhat are your plans? custom paint job? any specific colour?
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the plan. As soon as I get motivated to begin airbrushing, that is...
ReplyDeleteHaven't decided yet, but probably vermilion and white for the armor
gorgeus gundam,, can't wait till the sazabi is done
ReplyDeleteThanks! Yeah, I really need to get crackin' on this project!
ReplyDeleteI love red gundams... i liked your sinanju a lot and when you're done with this, I will again be impressed... hehe...
ReplyDeleteby the way adding you to my blogroll... just made a blog recently... Im new with gunpla, and having fun... I think you guys are really good with gunpla...
> www.larsmm3.wordpress.com
Thanks, and welcome to the blogging world! I'll be sure to add you too. Don't follow my lead and disappear for months at a time though. I'll finish it I promise!
ReplyDeleteHi, I came across your site and wasn’t able to get an email address to contact you. Would you please consider adding a link to my website on your page. Please email me back and we'll talk about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
Joel Houston
JHouston791@gmail.com
Thanks! Just emailed you.
ReplyDeleteAlso, for reference, my email is on the right bar up there (shinpla.blog@gmail.com)
where'd you goooooo?!
ReplyDeleteI'll be back one day... One day...
ReplyDeleteSold all my unopened kits and I'm planning on going back and redoing my old ones with custom paint and such. Not sure when though...