30MF Dragonia Knight

Fantastic kit. The “silhouette”/base body looks good by itself, but once you put on the armor it turns into one of the coolest kits I’ve assembled.

My main complaint with this whole line (so far) is that I have not been able to make the eyes “glow” with silver paint behind the clear plastic.

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  • JigglySackles
    2·
    7 days ago

    Right on, that’s cool. It definitely seems difficult to do which is why I’ve put it off for so long. Lol I have a Xenogears kit that I’ve wanted to put together but I don’t think I’ll be able to paint it any time soon, and I can’t afford the rate the one guy I know charges for painting.

    What’d you do to learn?

    • Gundam Reference@ani.social
      2·
      6 days ago

      Youtube and practice (for both the airbrushing and the brush painting). And even then, I would say I still don’t know a lot about it (definitely deficient in that practice part).

      Some specific videos I watched were:

      For brush painting, I essentially transferred skills I learned for miniature painting, and any good video for that will help you with the other. Mr. Hobby Gundam Color paints (semi-gloss) tend to dry to a similar gloss as Bandai’s plastic, so I thin those with either a bit of Isopropyl alcohol, Mr. Hobby Acrysion Thinner, or Mr. Color Leveling Thinner.