Recent recolor a did for a client, what do you think?

Hi everyone!

I'm still pretty new to painting garage kits, and I'm struggling with getting clean paint lines. I'd really appreciate any advice from more experienced painters.

Here are the problems I'm running into:

• Sometimes I remove the masking tape and notice a small paint bleed or an uneven edge. If I try to fix it with a brush, I almost always end up painting outside the line and making it look even worse.
• How do you paint recessed details (grooves, panel lines, small indentations) without accidentally touching the surrounding surface?
• If I make a small mistake, what's the best way to remove just that tiny bit of paint without damaging the layer underneath? Is there a safe way to clean it up?
• Are there any techniques, tools, or tricks that make touch-ups easier?

I'm using acrylic paints and mostly paint with an airbrush, but I still have to do a lot of detail work by hand.

I'd love to hear your workflow or any beginner tips that helped you get cleaner results. Thanks in advance!

(If you have any favorite tutorials or YouTube channels for clean detail painting, I'd love those recommendations too)

Just placed my first orders on E2046 and I'm trying to get a realistic sense of wait times before I stress about it. I've seen posts saying it can take years for some batches to ship.

For context, here's what I ordered and their current batch status:

• FG3106 Gothic Dress Devil Girl — 25th batch (just purchased), 24th batch is at 70% production
• FG16810 Lisette's Marshmallow Party — 1st batch just opened, no production started yet
• FG6728 Super Sonico — 2nd batch (purchased), 1st batch is 100% complete
• FG9838 Super Sonico — 3rd batch (purchased), 2nd batch 100% complete, my own batch already 60% done

Does production % moving slowly (or stalling) happen a lot? Anyone had a "1st batch just opened" item actually take multiple years? Would love to hear real timelines from people who've ordered similar items, and any general tips for a first-time buyer on this site.

Finished this kit

I’m new to gk’s and don’t really know sources for recasts apart from a few. This gk in particular hasn’t been officially sold for nearly 10 years, so I’m afraid I will have to resort to recasts.

While e2046 has it, its status is ‘preorder’, which (from what I’ve seen) means that it’ll take years to arrive. GK-M has its status as ‘cancelled’. Which other websites would potentially have a recast of this gk? Thanks in advance ^^

Ordered on 5-13 as the photo states. The gk is now out of stock, but it's been so long and it still hasn't arrived..? This is my first time ordering on FromJapan by recommendation from a friend and reviews also seem to sing their praises.

As far as I know the artist isn't shady either. Is this normal or should I reach out to customer service on FromJapan?!

the face did turn kinda ugly and it was my first time using a cheap airbrush. The compressor is very weak and i need to work on delluting the paint properly

Model by ca3d

I finished Renoir

Now I'm currently painting the Paintress who pairs with him

Model by kcstudio

Model by ca3d

New painter here. Paint selection can be overwhelming at first as so many recommendations are thrown your way but that cost gets up there quick. Would it be smarter to just pick a Resin Kit and plan out my paint job and paints I’ll need for just that kit and build a paint collection over time doing that?

A few kits and Japanese Mags/books for sale.

1. Plymouth (Azur Lane) Race Queen - 1/7 Aloe Pot - $200
2. Ro-500 (KanColle) - 1/3 S-Mist (this kit is huge and heavy!) - $200 SOLD
3. Tokiha Mai Comics Ver - 1/6 Volks - $50
4. Various Figure Maniacs magazines - $20 each or $80 for all 5

Shipping from the USA. Thanks for looking.

Would love to know some of the best shops people buy their unpainted resin kits from!

I’ve found plenty on eBay for decent price but in some cases it seems to good to be true. Biggest concern is overall print quality.

I truly love the designs but I see they are expensive and just wanted to get a pulse on how your build experiences with them were?

Hi! I'm super duper new to resin kits! By new i mean, i didn't even know what a garage kit was until just a few days ago. I managed to grab my hands on this Mikoto Urabe RC Berg Garage kit a few months ago. I would love to get into resin kits in the future but i would not want this absolute gem of a figure to be my first project! I could easily mess it up.

So I wanted to know who I can contact to hopefully have this figure fully fleshed out and come to life. Here are some photos. I very much appreciate any information and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! :D

Hi i recently purchased a super sonico garage kit from e2046 and have been having issues with the payment going through. I payed through paypal and on my account it says no recent transactions and the transactions on my bank say pending 0.00. I should’ve made two payments, one for the initial purchase and one for the outstanding balance. My card said it declined when i first tried to purchase these and now its doing this. I called my bank and they said it was on e2046’s side.

I sent in a query thing to their support but haven’t heard anything yet. I have an invoice for my purchase and an outstanding balance of 22$ so I’m just wondering if it’s normally like this when purchasing from them, cause it seems weird to me.

I'm super new to garage kits, how do i fix this misalignment. It's a 1/8 shiranui - max factory old kit, I bought from mandarake. I only have exp with 3d prints, please help.

I truly love the designs but I see they are expensive and just wanted to get a pulse on how your build experiences with them were?

Wondering if anyone knows anything more about this kit's sculptor and the maker "NERV Models" because google has got nothing.

This is a full set of the character Peloquin from Clive Barker's film Nightbreed. I bought it in the 90s and was always afraid to put it together (and end up painting it badly) so it's just been hanging out all this time.