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March for gashapon
New, very new, old and very old gashapon/shokugan/prize items from various companies getto for this month. ^^


Kabaya's DX Transformers Gum (Fortress Maximus) and Brave Legend Brave Gum 5th (King Exkaiser, J-Decker and Gaogaigar).


Bandai's Half Age Characters One Piece Girls Party!, HGIF The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 1.5 and 2.


Good Smile Company's Nendoroid Petit Type-Moon Collection.


Banpresto's Macross 30th Anniversary SQ Figure Costume x Crossover Mylene Jenius and DXF Figure Sheryl Nome and Ranka Lee Nurse Ver. .
The items' sizes vary greatly as well. Fortress Maximus is shown to be about 18cm tall when completed, SQ Figure Costume x Crossover Mylene Jenius is about 20cm in height, but all the gashapon figures of HGIF The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 1.5 and 2 are quite small. Apart from liking all the different items, the diversity in series, size and design is very interesting to me. ^^

HG 1/144 Genoace Custom Part 3

A monotone laundry list
Continuing with the work on HG 1/144 Genoace Custom after the previous posting. ^^ Paint work on certain parts for the main model and cleaning up on the panel lining work did in Part 1 are the main focus this time. ^^


Parts that need to be painted include the hip area, ...


... interior of the backpack, ...


... thruster area on the sole, and ...


... ankle area.


Painted all the targeted area gray using Tamiya Color Acrylic Paint Mini XF-53 Neutral Grey.


Excessive paint on the parts is scratched away using a sharpened toothpick.
Panel lines are added when the paint has dried.


Just in case certain corners inside the ankle area may be exposed when the joint is turned, or when the foot is viewed from certain angle, the top side of the feet parts is painted gray.


Test fitting the painted parts to see how the ankle area would turn out when assembled.
No more sneaky white spot to ruin the picture now I suppose. XD


The rectangular vents near the tips are painted black using normal marker.


Small rectangular areas behind the forearms are shown to be painted in the manual. They seem to be in black like all the vents on the kit, but I don't see the relevance of having vents on that component of the MS. ^^;


Instead of black, I painted the targeted areas gray using Gundam Marker instead, to show that they might be exposed mecha component from beneath the arms' armor parts.


Tiny sunken stripes at the bottom edge of the hand armor parts are painted gray using Gundam Marker.



Excessive panel lining paint from Part 1 for the arm parts is cleaned using cotton swab soaked with enamel thinner.
New panel lines for certain areas are added using Gundam Marker GM02 Gray with fine tip, and normal panel liner for the sole gray part.


Two large vents behind the waist are painted black using normal sharp-tipped marker.


Panel lining for the waist and skirt armor parts.


The large vent below the knee is painted black using normal marker as well.


Very simple-looking molded line details inside the knee area are panel lined using fine-tipped Gundam Marker.


Normal panel lining for the other leg parts.



Repetition of the panel lining and minor paint work on parts for the other leg.


Panel lining for the body parts.


Much like the hip area painted earlier on, the shoulder joint area on the rear body part is painted gray as well, but Gundam Marker is used instead for simplicity.


Normal panel lining for the body parts.


Edges of the rear sensor is painted black to give it a more solid and noticable silhouette when the sticker is applied later on.
With that, the work on HG 1/144 Genoace Custom is done. ^^ Except for a few of the weapon parts that require special mixed paint and care in painting as shown in the previous posting, the work is pretty simple overall. The experience gained from the detailing work on HGUC Unicorn Gundam [Unicorn Mode] and [Destroy Mode] proved to be very helpful in the work on this kit due to the almost identical color scheme. ^^ I don't need to consider much when dealing with the white and black parts. All I did do was to rethink what I managed similar parts on the two Unicorn Gundam kits and reapplied the same technique on Genoace Custom. ^^

As usual, there'll be a bit of offset time between now and when I revisit all the parts again for the final assembly. ^^

HG 1/144 Genoace Custom Part 2

The forgotten weapon
More specific detailing work on selected parts from HG 1/144 Genoace Custom after the previous posting. ^^


The simulation combat-use gun's color is shown to be dark yellow in the manual.


The color is not indicated in the color guide though. ^^;
Even the smaller head sensors' color is shown, but not for the simulation gun. ^^;


I'll have to mix my own paint to get the gun's color. ^^;
Four types of paint were used to get the mixed color: Gaia Color 025 Orange Yellow (more), Mr. Color GX 4 Chiara Yellow Gloss (minor), Gundam Marker Red (minor) and Gundam Marker Gray (minor).


Painted the three simulation gun using the mixed paint.


Panel lined the parts once the paint has dried.


The knife and Heat Stick are going to be painted as well to make them look more believable as blade and nail-type melee weapons. ^^


Colors for the two weapons as shown in the manual.


The knife and Heat Stick are painted silver using Gaia Metallic Color No. 9 Bright Silver.


The knife's handle is painted gray using Gaia Color 074 Neutral Gray IV.


Panel lines are added to the parts when the paint has dried.


As mentioned in the previous posting, painting the Heat Stick compartment deep down behind the shield is not going to be easy.


With the compartment sandwiched between the two walls, the biggest problem would be to clean up excessive paint later on.
To avoid that, and to make myself feel more at ease when painting the part, ^^ masking tape is used to catch any accidental stroke of the paint brush when painting the compartment. ^^


Painted the compartment gray using Gaia Color 074 Neutral Gray IV.


Bits of excessive gray paint deep inside the shield is cleaned using sharpened toothpick.


Done for the shield's paint work.


(Left) Panel lined the second shield part, the one that form the outer layer.
(Right) Applied the wolf head sticker onto the shield.


Excessive panel lining paint on the beam gun's parts is cleaned using cotton swab soaked with enamel thinner.


The gun's muzzle doesn't look outstanding being in the same color as the entire gun I think, so I painted it red using Gundam Marker. ^^


Black/gold/silver would be more appropriate I guess, but red makes it look special in my opinion. ^^
Even though I did mix my own paints for a few kits I worked on in the past, it's always a very challenging task to me. ^^; As different paints are being mixed together, you can never know for sure if you're on the way to achieving the result that you want, or the other direction that says, "Mix harder, fail harder, discard and redo". XD For the simulation gun, since the intended color has a tone of orange in it, the experience in painting Keropla Kururu Robo Mk-II served as a good reference to get the paint mixture I wanted. ^^

More painting and detailing on the rest of the kit to be featured in the next posting. ^^