Mn's Collection - New 1/100 Gundam Astraea Type F2

[qb]

ey bro....love the new avatar and sig....is that also one of your kits?

[Vlad]

nice avatar and signature you got there sir! ..somehow that exia looks familiar...

[mn]

@qb and vlad

I hope that was my Exia! It was the exia done by A2 Crafts! I hope my exia would look like that when the MG Exia gets released.

Virtue update:

80% complete currently adding panel lines then decals hopefully by sunday everything would be done.

[miasong]

woah, you really had my eyes glowing there and my jaws droppin' seeing that new avatar of yours ;D ;D ;D

[jnthn]

May 15, 2008 13:13:56 GMT 8 mn said:

@jnthn

thanks for the comment!

Usually bro i start with washing the sprues with water and detergent then removing it from the sprues then sanding and apply putty if necessary. After that I apply primer then paint the kit then comes masking. Masking is when a part is suppose to have 2 colors you need to apply masking tape in order to paint the other color. Aftter that comes cleaning especially when the paint job has paint bleeding you need to retouch some parts.

Then apply a thin coat of Gloss coat then apply panel lines then after that a coat of Flat clear then apply the decals then when everthing is ok apply another coat of Flat clear inorder to make sure your decals will be in place.

thanks for the tip, man! no wonder your kits are neat and well-painted....i asked coz i'm about to start on my first airbrush kit pretty soon...hope to see your next project soon...

[mn]

@jnthn

Thanks bro. anytime.

Finally My Virtue is done.

1/100 GN-005 GUNDAM VIRTUE NO GRADE


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Hmmm what to do next besides exia? hahah

[stalker888]

whoa! speechless sir! job well done on the Virtue! impressive sir!

what to do next?! Astrea 1/100! hahahaha.. ;d ;d ;d

and cool sig sir! is that your Exia?! ;d

[mn]

Thanks stalker! about my next kit? hmm i don't really know yet. hahaha I'm currently tired of doing NG kits because its really hard to apply detail on them. Ill check my astraea or Over flag. or Maybe an pending MG kit

[stalker888]

May 23, 2008 23:42:35 GMT 8 mn said:

Thanks stalker! about my next kit? hmm i don't really know yet. hahaha I'm currently tired of doing NG kits because its really hard to apply detail on them. Ill check my astraea or Over flag. or Maybe an pending MG kit

whoa! tired of NG kits?! akin nalang! joke! ;d ;d ;d haha.. good luck on future purchase! can't wait to see another MG modeled and Decaled by you sir!

[mn]

Temporarily! hahaha its ok if im not working, but im very busy at work and have very little time to do gunpla, and you know making NG kits takes lot of time and patience, lots of parts to sand lots of parts to mask etc. I just did the 00 series kits because i know they wont be making MG kits for dynames,kyrios, and virtue. well hopefully not hahaha.

[stalker888]

hahaha.. yah, i agree... hectic scheds are also a headache for me to do gunpla, most of the time, i do GunPla in the morning, around 1:00AM-3:330AM.. hahha.. ;d

as for 00 MGs, yah, i think they won't be making into the MG lines, it's always the lead character and the "contrabida" who has the slot for the MG line, so i think Exia & Flag(?) will have the first slots.. juz my opinion.. hehehe.. ;d

[RainerO]

Nicely done sir w/ complete specs indicated!

[GundamX]

very mean looking virtue pre! I salute you!!!

one question, what putty do you use? I tried tamiya quick type on some parts but i wasn't able to smooth it very well... or maybe I'm using a wrong sand paper. any advise pre?

[manny]

nice work bro... congrats... love it... ;D

[mn]

@stalker

yeah bro. thats why i wanted my dynames,kyrios,and virtue to look like MG grade.

RainerO

thanks bro!

@gundamx

I use Mr. Hobby putty and the sand paper i use is grit 400.

manny

Thanks alot bro!