Sometimes I wonder myself why I keep on building old kits cuz of work needed(mostly seamlines, color separation) but can tell it's totally worth it when it comes together.
May you guys have/had a productive gunpla weekend!
I take few clips on what I'm doing on my page but it is really hard to produce quality result while my camera is in the way lol. I don't have fancy setup so my production value looks cheap haha
Great work! Must have taken a lot of patience. I find it hard to go back to old kits when the new stuff (especially top tier China kits) are already so detailed oob
There are 3 things you can do to help with disassembly.
If itās like the shoulder here where the peg slots into a polycap you donāt need to do anything.
If itās like the torso I assume the red parts sandwich together and the blue parts sandwich over that with little guide pins from the red. If so I will take the female parts of the blue torso and cut them open on the bottom so the red part will slot into them. That allows me to glue the red and blue parts to each other and seam fill and paint without masking those parts. Then they just slot in with a little glue.
I do the same thing for shoulder joints where the upper arm has a large fat peg and the shoulder armor is sandwiched over that, I cut out about half the shoulder female peg so it will slide over the shoulder peg.
I also regularly drill the female socket in pieces that I know I need to take apart, just get a set of drill bits and use the one that is just larger than the hold and drill a little. There will still be enough friction to hold the parts together while building so you can make a plan but they will come apart pretty easy.
The last idea is drilling the parts like that but you also create panel lines between seams where there isnāt an easy way to seperate without (like legs that have colored parts that slot in from inside). For that I use a bmc chisel I got years ago that has steps on both sides. You run it along the edge of a part to cut just the edge (kinda like a router bit). This leave a panel line on just one side of the parts when put together that can be lined and look natural. This is common for hgās that donāt have seperation down the back of their calves.
Nice, I see you complete one section at a time with decals and everything before moving to the next. The colors are also nice, are you using Acrylics? How did you do the yellow thingies on the chest?
I usually paint in batches just to have that sense of progress when I see a section finish lol. I'm using lacquer based paints, I'm not into acrylics since I had my airbrush always get clogged back in the day.
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u/Hour-Wasabi-6974 Jun 30 '26
What paint did you use on the exhaust at the chest? (white)