I've finally completed my HG RX-78 GP01FB after 13 hours. No, i don't sit around and do it straight for 13 hours. But it took me a total of 13 hours to put it together. Though i haven't complete the plane? and the shield. I hated the foil stickers, so i'm waiting for a clear afternoon to spray it blue. X D
The arms of GP01FB, fully inked and I painted the grey area and phew..i didn't screw up the white areas.
I tried this method which people apply it for airbrushing. Though it doesn't really work on markers...or maybe i'm doing it wrong.. I couldn't paint the mini thrusters on the shoulders though. So i left them as it is..How would you paint it though? Please let me a message if you know.
I did what i could with what i have. I don't have green so i painted the supposed-green-areas yellow. X D I couldn't paint the mini thrusters on the chest(couldn't reach inside with the marker) so i only painted the tip of them. Now i wonder, how do you guys normally do that?
Like i mentioned before, how nice it'll be if Bandai have Koto kits' pre-painted face. I really hate foil stickers. X D Dry and wet decays are great, but foil stickers, nope.
Here's a couple of standard poses of the GP01FB. More action poses to be updated soon.
I painted the little grey area slowly and carefully so i wouldn't screw up the white area..fortunately, i didn't....
This is as close as i could get as the manual...which took a bit of work...
I painted the thrusters with red. I believe i wasted a lot of the marker on them....
Both HG Gadessa and HGUC RX-78GP01FB meant a lot to me because they're both my first High Grade 1/144 kits. They are also my first two kits to be using gundam markers for painting. I've tried to paint it as much as i could to make it look almost, almost the same as the model in the manual. I succeeded in some parts, and failed in some too. I have not used markers painting for my MG kits so it was really refreshing. In my opinion, HG kits are very worthy for newbie gunpla modelers(especially me), cause it serves as a learning kit for other more complicated kits, be it a MG or PG. Though my first ever kit 8 years ago was a PG Mk-II.*Faint* It's always better to mess up your HG kit than your MG kits. If only someone would had told me to start with HG kits, i would had, had lesser errors while assembling my MG kits. Some which caused me a lot of pain, cause i broke the wing mechanism on my Strike Freedom FBM and i didn't ink and apply decals for the 3 of my MG kits that i assembled in 2008, which is a big big error and painful experience if you were to do all those once it's all completed. Sighs. I still have yet to ink and apply decals on my FAZZ, Ex-S and Strike Freedom. Sighs.
I bought two new HGUC kits today. Stay tune with me to find out which two kits i bought. X D
P.S. If you're a gunpla modeler like me, and if you don't mind and have that few minutes of free time. Please contact me, leave a comment or whichever ways suit you. So we could exchange techniques on gunpla building(more like teaching me). X D Thanks all.
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