it does! but it wasn’t enough here!
i used nail polish clearcoat to glue the kneecap in place though cuz i couldnt find my cement. i found my cement now. i should try to topcoat my nails with tamiya cement
the peg is just kind of in a loose space that Im gonna fill with putty
this is happening now!! come build robots with butts 
finished the zaku i started during group build
i set my goals low (learn how to build a bigger kit, basically?) and i’m pretty happy where it turned out. i discovered too late that i’d assembled the knee joint backwards in an irreparable way. he’s little wonky to re-pose but thankfully looks totally fine unless you look real close.
gunpla fun
every time i fuck up with one of my gunpla, like cause damage or put it together wrong im like “This guy got killed like 7 seconds later by amuro so don’t worry about manufacturing errors. Happens all the time”
maybe the zeon guys were in a rush!! some maintenance crew put in the knee backwards. ERRORS CAN BE CANON. all zakus are beautiful
oh yeah that’s what I always say. factory errors happen! it just makes it even more realistic!!! I need to tell it to myself more because I’ve been practicing painting on my zssa and I’m gonna have to topcoat it
usually I’m decent with stickers but for this kit I just keep ripping and crumpling them so I said fuck it and have been painting instead. trying to practice color matching for when I get really bold and prime a whole kit
HAMSALAD keeps screaming at me to drybrush, to get that texture and OKAY YES I’LL GET THERE I am tiptoeing through this hobby more delicately than anything I’ve ever done. just for a change. I love how it doesn’t matter how much extra or how little extra you put in, it’s just a joy to build
I kept buying really cool kits and then psyching myself out if building them because they were too nice and I didn’t know what I was doing! The first gunpla I bought was a MG from 2001! What?? (Still not finished of course)
Starting with a zaku would have been much smarter!! I just finally built my first regular ass rx-78 and spending $15 on a kit that will be in print forever let me just try stuff without worrying about it and what do you know, I got better! What I’m saying is you’re taking a much better path than me lol
Build wise I’m working on the same yellow ZSSA @daphaknee is but right now I’m concentrating on ROCKET NOZZLES wooo
Thanks @jadeddesigner for the dry brushing tips last night!
I LOVE the way that copper looks
not sure I agree with even edge highlighting for giant robots. panel lining and weathering, ok. multiple thin glossy topcoats with light sanding…!
what paints are you using
shitty acrylics that I thin with my spit
I like when poeple paint their robots however they want. like the only thing I don’t aesthetically like is the weird ‘realistic’ shading that was obviously done before the robot got put together, but now that more time has passed I even kinda can appreciate those paintjobs
Drybrushing is how everything I paint looks good!
(Ahd other reasons but it’s a really good hack)
Had fun building robots with yall! I got the Baund Doc assembled and panel lined. Next step is to find some stickers to spruce it up. Came with surprisingly few. I’m gonna matte clear coat it. No big paint job for this lady cuz i like the pink and purple.
me too! amazed at how different painting models & gunplas is to miniature painting. drybrushing is a highlighting technique on minis and I dunno why you’d need it on a bigger kit with lots of smooth panels (looking at the kits I’ve done, none have much fine detail, guess I’m cheap)
I’m probably not understanding how drybrushing on gunpla is supposed to work & will get it when I see a good example. tried looking at videos and the first guy explained about emulating azimuthal lighting and I closed the tab
50% of gunpla videos are total bullshit nonsense that’s impossible to follow. You drybrush gunpla to add weathering and detail around the edges mainly
this jesta is a good example of what people are going for when they do this
it looks really good on all the grunt mobile suits
it’s definitely something i want to get into eventually cuz i love carving up the plastic with an xacto knife like a freak and this looks less evil
It is weird, I am usually able to find really good diy videos about almost anything but gunpla videos are almost universally dire
HELLO KITTY ZAKU for my sister
Sending her the pink Char one for her to build and make a matching set!
MORE BABY STEPS
I had to mask two pieces (the yellow arms that have light yellow trim) in order to prime the edges with light grey and then i painted over it, I TRIED to match the colors as best I can but I just have yellow white and spit so it’ll just have to do
also I got primer on the parts I masked so I gotta work on that better, I’m sure the answer is more than one layer of masking tape you lazyass
I keep dreaming of a real workspace but these tiny touches to make things more mine are really satisfying
now I’m waiting on some rockets to dry so I can paint em up more!!!
I know we have real painter heads and the stuff I’m doing is so quaint and novice but the fact that I’m finishing anything semi creative lately is a miracle and I’ll take it
A triumphant return to the builders world. The jarja…a painters dream.
I am especially proud of the bayonet which i did with a marker
the torso of the zssa looks like a cartoon enemy that would have like a tornado for legs and beat you up
