April Photo Dump

5592396546_fdfe7bccb5_o, a photo by Busterbeam on Flickr.

Thanks for the help guys!

Canadian Paint Options

Sorry, it's a bit blurry

This is all I can find at the shops near my place. Well there are lot's of paints for wood and metal but not many for plastics. I decided to go for these two first. Each is about 7 bucks. Pricey!

I took the gloss black because I'm planning on doing metallics later. I picked up the grey primer just to see how it compares to the Japanese stuff I'm used to using.

I couldn't find a place that sold Japanese primer (or any type for that matter) in a bottle for airbrushing so I'm trying this for now.

Both are enamels. I'm not so happy about that. I tried the grey out already and it smells bad (toxic so it actually smells kind of good but it's bad for you!).

Also it takes a lot longer to dry. And I'm worried that it might damage the plastic as in making it too soft and too easy to break.

We'll see. I plan on spraying enamel on it again. Man... it's funny. Enamel is what I'm trying to get away from but it seems that's all I can get here.  I knew I had it good in Japan!

Plus a lot of paints don't even say if it's acrylic or lacquer or enamel or what. Pain in the butt. I might try some of the acrylic bottles I saw and thin them down with water. I'm really trying to stay as non- toxic as I can but... I don't want to just waste the stuff I have so I'm going to try and use as much as I can before buying new stuff.

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Side note: Yesterday I cleaned up the garage and got it set up as my new paint station. I primed on panel using the Testors can show here and then sprayed a different panel with acrylic paint. No primer there. Pics to come.

You may be asking what kit am I working on? I will also reveal that later. Sorry kind of jumping around a bit.

GFF #0014 Exs/S Gundam U.C. 0087

A gift from my former student Manabu.  My 1st year in Japan and living in Tokyo.

Only for the mecha lovers.  He was a big fan of 0083.  (We were totally talking **** about Nina.  Traitor.)

So when I left Japan the first time he got me this as a going away present.  I mean I knew that he liked Gundam but I didn't know that he liked this type of stuff!

Ultra grateful to him and I know he's not reading this but 学さん本当にありがとうございました！

I'm still enjoying it almost a decade later.

This thing does demand time though.  I have so much respect for people who have made the larger versions.  And I don`t even know what to say about people who make this.