Here’s some new pics of the upcoming MG in October, the Blue Frame 2nd.

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12/09/09 : Finally completed today.   Here’s some shots with my iPhone until I have time to take some hi-res shots and posing.

Preview of the pretty much completed Strike Freedom.  The only things left are the railgun internals and the gold highlights on the wings, which can be finished in like 10 minutes.   Sadly I lost one of the red verniers on the wings,  and it’s a real eyesore without it.

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Progress, progress!

Fair bit of progress this weekend.

An empty box means we're nearly done

More after the jump.

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Very slow progress on this kit.  Been almost a month since I opened the box and started cutting stuff up, and I haven’t even painted (well airbrushed) anything yet.   But this weekend I actually managed to get the wings assembled at least.

As per my lineart, the wing internals will be gold still.  I used Tamiya Gold spray, since I’m lazy, and I don’t think acryllic gold looks as nice when airbrushed on.

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For my impressions of the recently released Perfect Grade 00 Raiser, please see my latest post.

Wow Bandai.   Talk about making kits of obscure suits lately.  First PG Red Frame, now MG Blue Frame 2nd.

The PG 00 comes with the Raiser and the GN Sword III, so rather unlike the PG Strike, Bandai are being upfront about stealing away your monies this time.  As for price, this thing will set you back a cool 26,250Y.  Ouch.  Get ready to sell off some limbs or ebay your firstborn for this.

How about giving older MS some love.  LIKE MG GUNDAM X K THX.

Source:

Ngee Khiong

GA Graphic

Back in Japan last year, I had a choice of either getting a Shin Musha Gundam or Strike Freedom.  All I know now is that I’ve made a terrible mistake.

Something really bugs me about this suit.  I think now the backpack/wings are too crazy, also there’s too much of that dark blue/black that doesn’t mesh well with the rest of the colours.

Anyway I’m going to put this kit out of it’s misery as (one of) my latest project.

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Managed to put some time aside today to finish this guy off.

Took just under two months to finish this kit, due to heaps of real life issues popping up.

Finally being able to see this kit completed, it actually looks much better than I originally thought it would in terms of the proportions.

In terms of the blue, I think I prefer the shade I did on the WZC, since you can see the shading better on it.

My major issues dealing with this kit were:

• Painting the black strips on the ankle guard / shoulders / skirts.  I was originally going to airbrush them on with acrylics, but chickened out and decided to do an enamel wash instead…didn’t turn out too well as you can see.
• Painting the yellow parts.  I used straight yellow mixed with some orange yellow, and the final result was waaay too bright in contrast with the other colours.  I had to redo the yellow parts and add a little black this time, something which I think I’ll do on all my kits from now on.
• Rampant dust getting on white parts when painting.  This usually doesn’t happen to me, but I suspect it had something to do with my crappy priming when first doing these parts.
• Really tight joints made posing tough, and ended up getting alot of chips and scratches on the parts as a result.

Gallery after the jump.

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I must have the most boring WIP’s ever.

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So back to a Gundam…I’m still not convinced I’m good enough yet to tackle one of my favourite suits yet, so I’ve decided to try build one of the lesser known Gundam’s (and one of the more over the top ones).

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The Murphy’s law of Gunpla Building – shit will always get lost or broken.

Writeup after the jump.

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Hot on the heels of my last kit, here is my latest work in progress:

MG Zaku II F2…never built a Zaku before, but the great thing about Zeon suits is that they never have that many seam lines. So with no Gundam head mod to worry about, the whole build process is alot more streamlined. More after the jump.
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After god knows how long the damn WZC is finally completed!

17th May update: some better non-posed pics added.

18th May update: Write-up added.

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