Loot (7th February 2013)

HG 1/144 Arios Gundam GNHW

Stupid spray can is empty and so the Neo Granzon is on hiatus till I get more paint.

Since I had my tools out I went and worked on the Arios instead.

Building the Neo Granzon (1)

Now, as you might be able to tell from my previous loot post, I'd gotten the non-scale Kotobukiya Neo Granzon model kit.

From what I've seen of it, it looks fantastic. There's just one major problem I have with it, though: All the bits that ought to be gold are yellow. Horrible yellow. If I had to give this particular shade of yellow a name it'd be Kindergarten Yellow. Because it looks like the kind of yellow you see on, you know, toys. For pre-schoolers.

It's horrid, is what I'm trying to say.

So yeah, I got a can of gold spray paint! One problem though: I've never used spray paint ever before. At all.

Did some reading up first. When I handled the parts I found that they were kind of... icky. Waxy. So I decided to test out the spray on an empty bit of runner first.

Yeah the paint didn't stick on very well.

And so, a baptism in body soap!

And a second test:

Yep, looks like that helped.

Preparing of parts for spraying:

The spraying:

The results (also comparison to the base colour)

Worked on the other bits of the shoulders while waiting for the paint to dry.

Upper shoulder almour complete! ...Yes I missed some spots but eh whatever, it's harder to tell in person. Also the gold looks a lot better in person.

Update: 5th February- Finished the shoulders.

Also turned the yellow bits on two of the pre-painted parts gold (my first time doing masking)

Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete clear

I certainly took my time with it but yeah, finally cleared Kono Oozora ni, Tsubasa wo Hirogete. Plus the FD arrived last week and all.

Pulltop's best game yet, I think. Kanishino was really good too but just kind of had an incomplete feeling to it. Enjoyed Rabukami but FUCK was it short.

I really ought to get round to clearing Yunohana and Te to Te Tryon and Shinsei nishite Okasubekarazu.

Anyway, moving on to the FD! Edit (6th February 2013): Cleared Flight Diary too. It was alright but kind of way too short. I'd have preferred proper afters for Asa and Yoru and Ageha, wouldn't have minded paying full price too if so. Ah well.

Loot (2nd February 2013)

Pre-ordered the Kono Oozora ni Tsubasa wo Hirogete FD from Sofmap. Yay tapestry.