Just a hint about painting the gundam. The initial coat of gundam does not indicate the final look of the gundam. Since I’ve used a non glossy (matt) colour, the first coat seem to have no gloss at all. It is absolutely flat. Personally I prefer a satin finish, a matt finish with a touch of glossiness.

All of these are controllable and easily achieved through the use of clear coating. You can clear coat as much as you want. It’s all up to you. More on this later.

Notice that the color is pretty much clean color with little to no shading at all. Next project is the IWSP Gundam. I plan to use the Max Tecnique on my next gundam.

(Warning: I posted the pic above at the max resolution i.e.a about 1.5Mb) I’ve completed this gundam kit a few weeks ago and this is the picture taken before it was painted. I love the detail from this Master Grade kit, the articulation of the joints and the small details. I bought it off eBay for about RM160 ( about US $50).

What I hate about it is the way that it felt plasticky (for lack of better way of putting it). Its way too shiny and looks kinda cheap.

One way of solving this problem is too paint the kit. How to paint a kit? If you got steady hands and patience and lack the financial resources, I’d suggest you go with handbrush. If you lack patience and got shaky hands (I attribute the shaky hands solely on overdose of caffeine) like me, then the only way to go is airbrushing.

By the way this will be my very first painted Gundam and a first time for me in using an airbrush. It can be daunting using the airbrush for the first time. But after doing for days it will eventually be fun. I am now sticking my MG IWSP Gundam on stick ready for the very first coat. I’ll add more pictures on the painted MK-II gundam. All I need to do now is get the Gundam ready for a private photoshoot!.

One site that I found to be handy is this www.dalong.net .It’s a korean site but is has almost all of the gundam kits on review. However the review are all in korean. I don’t bother to look at the text… the are loads of unpainted gundam kits. If you are looking for gundam kits and want to see how it will turn out. take a gander to that site.