OhGeek Toys

This time I will be sharing with you how I paint my kits.  The first step for me is I try to look for references for my paint schemes. I really liked the color scheme of the Mega Shiki and thought that a custom scheme based off this  would work well with the Delta Kai. You can see in the photo above the paints that I use, basically it is just Reeve's Acrylic mixed with water. This paint can be bought for around $8 for the whole set. This paint is what we call Student Grade, meaning, it is not as high quality as the more expensive brands like Grumbacher and Rembrandt which are "Artist Grade". I am yet to try using these more expensive brands but I am speculating that they will work better since they have higher pigment density. What I do is I eyeball and approximate the colors that I need and then just lump together the paints inside an old Tamiya jar along with a coin to help stir the paint. I add some water and then shake the bottle with the coin acti...

Here is the second part of my tutorial on how I build my Gunpla. Before we go any further, I'd like to apologize because I was not able to take as much photos as I needed to make what I wanted to show you guys as clear as possible. Noob mistake, I'll do better next time :) Here we see a sample of the snap fit for the kit. Before I go about finishing up the kit I make sure that I do a complete build first to determine the areas that I need to fix and the areas that will not be seen. I do not work on hidden areas because I think that's wasted time and effort and instead I concentrate on the surfaces that will be seen. You may notice from this build of the torso that there are a lot of nub marks. That's ok, we really do not need to be clean here, we just have to check if the kit builds well. (I forgot to take a photo of the whole kit, sorry!) Here's an example of a nub mark. After determining that this part will be exposed when I first made a full buil...