The end result – an unwanted rest for almost a month from work. Some people told me I was lucky for being off from work for a month. I have only this to say: I would rather go to work for a month non-stop with no weekend than going through the hell of having your ankle cemented and going through what I have gone through. My ankle still ache to this day… almost a year later and I have been deprived of simple things like jogging in the afternoon as my ankle can’t still handle the force exerted.

I have almost completed my PG Strike Gundam which started just before my accidents. I’ll post some new pictures soon. I have backlogged of Gundam waiting to be assembled:

1. PG 1/60 Strike Gundam

2. PG 1/60 RX-78-2 (this look real cool)

3. MG Freedom Gundam

4. MG 1/100 Force Impulse

5. PG 1/60 SkyGrasper

And did I mention I bought a new airbrush? The IWATA HP C airbrush. A hell of a lot better than the generic Taiwan made airbrush I used before.. Sparmax if I’m not mistaken.

Perfect Grade gundam kit can cost a fortune but for me its really worth its price. In previous post I’ve suggested you have a look at www.dalong.net if you want to see any Gundam Kit (unpainted) with a detailed review. Since the pages are all written in Korean, it’ll be great to see how the google translation deals with it. Wait… I’ll check it out

Well the translation certainly isn’t great but at least you get some idea of what the webmaster trying to say… which is better than nothing.

Back to the topic at hand. A perfect grade gundam kit stands at 3Ocm and the details are just amazing. All the joints are can be articulated and you can certainly pose the model in way imaginable. The only limitation being that some of the armor may hinder the movement of the internal skeleton.

Did I mention that each of the fingers can be articulated and movable? The external armors are removable and some of the hatches are able to opened and closed.

All of the models in Dalong.net are unpainted. It just doesn’t do justice for a model of that amount of detail to be left unpainted.. to me; it’s just not right. Another thing is that some of the more experience modeller (me; not one of them) use scribe pen to put more panel lining onto the visible armor plates. A scribe pen is a pen with needle like tip to etch the surface. You can buy it or you can make it yourself.

I’ve seen a blog that actually shows you how to make one of these scribe pens with old mechanical pencil and a needle.

Finally got around attaching a Youtube video review of RX-78 Perfect Grade Kit. Run a search for Gundam PG in youtube and you’ll get several video reviews of a Perfect Grade Gundam Kit.

When I was doing the MK-II Gundam this is the one thing that really troubled me… how the hell do I paint the eyes on the gundam. I’ve googled it and go through forum and search specifically on how to paint the the eyes. Alas, I never did find out the techniques…. until just now.

I was randomly searching MK-II trying to find out the full model name of the kit and stumbled upon the site. These are his steps taken to paint a Gundam eyes:

1. Paint the clear plastic with a coat of black.

2. Air brush a layer of white on the eyes.

3. Use tamiya clear green (or clear yellow or clear blue) on the white base you paint in step 2.

What you’ll get is eyes with kinda glowing effect on it. I’ve yet to test the method. I’ll give it a shot for my upcoming IWSP MG gundam. I”ll post the result when I come to it.

For the MK-II however, I did not paint the eyes. I just stick the sticker (god forbid) supplied with the kit and spray painted a few coats of clear to make sure that it doesn’t peel off. I was a bit surprised at how good it looked.

This is where I Found the post. Gamerabaenre. The site also provide tutorial and tips on how to airbrush your precious Gundam Kit.

(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.