OhGeek Toys

Ok, so it has been a while since I posted here. Again, I have been swamped with work but the real reason why I haven't had as much time to write was because I was playing DOTA 2. My friends play that game a lot and I kind of got hooked with it for almost 3 weeks, spending most of my break time playing when I could have been writing or catching up on my readings. When I realized that I haven't been able to update my blog and noticed the raw shots of my kits piling up I decided to cut down on playing and instead edit and upload some of the images that I took a couple of weeks ago. I have been building non-stop by the way, me not being able to update my blog does not mean that I have forgotten about Gunpla... nope, quite the opposite to be exact. So this is my first attempt at being able to post on a regular basis. I am gunning for at least two updates a week. I have set up a separate writing space in the house, away from my drawing set-up, where I can w...

First off, let me apologize for the quality of the images of this kit. I shot this using my camera's auto setting and it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. Also, my monitors are not cooperating with me and I am having a hard time calibrating them both so the images, on top of the bad shots I took, weren't adjusted well. So yeah, sorry :)                           This kit was a Christmas gift from my sister's family last 2012. I got around to finishing it around the first quarter of 2013 but was not able to shoot it then because of my schedule. The kit was primed with Bosny Primers and hand painted with Reeves Acrylics. I did not like how my finish for this kit turned out. Apparently, orange and yellow artist acrylic paints tend to be translucent and as such needed so much more paint applications than other colors. Also, I tried using this really really cheap brush that I had lying arou...