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I used a non-grade 1/100 Gundam Astray Red Frame kit to make this one. They look pretty much exactly the same except for the
frame colour, the decals and weapons. |
I'm not quite sure if this could be considered an out-of-the-box build since to my knowledge there hasn't been a 1/100 version of the MBF-P03 Gundam Astray Blue Frame that came out. I made this from the non-grade 1/100 MBF-P02 Gundam Astray Red Frame. They're basically similar in form except for the frame colour and decals. I was planning for this to be a two-phase project, this being phase one which is the base unit of the Astray Blue Frame. For Phase two, I was hoping to tackle the Full Weapon Form version of the Astray Blue Frame. As far as I am aware of, hobbynotoriko did a 1/144 version of this and he got the parts from other HG 1/144 kits. But the specific kits where he got the other parts from did not really come in 1/100 scale so I may have to dip my toes into some scratch building action. Wish me luck.
I haven't really gone through the paces of documenting a project through each step of the process. But I did get some photos on some junctions of this project. This is again a first of sorts for me, it's the first time I tried the pre-shading technique. I feel it turned out quite nicely but my only regret is that my excitement to paint got way ahead of me. I got lazy and neglected to clean out nub marks and seam lines. Of course that's no excuse but I am learning a lot as I go along. On the the pictures:
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| Time to prime! I made a rhyme. Hahaha! |
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| Primed and ready. |
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| Test fit with the unpainted white parts of the armour. |
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| For a closer look. |
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| And now for some pre-shading action. |
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| And now for the painful part... Masking... |
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| Especially the hands! Actually, I took a tip from one of the Gundam forum members. He suggested to paint the hands white and just hand-paint the blue parts. Brilliant! |
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| Painting complete! Now to put on the decals... |
And finally... Phase One complete!
Please stay tuned for Phase Two. Thanks for viewing.
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