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Layman’s Gunpla Guide – Gundam Line Art Collection

Line art? What do I need line art for? When planning out a custom colour scheme for your build the best way to plan is to take some line art and go to town with an image editor. Take a clean piece of line art, select some colours, and have fun with the fill tool. It’s a great way to get a general sense of what colour combinations look good, and depending on the detail level of the kit/line art, even plan for what pieces get what colour.

I want to call out that I didn’t make any of this line art. Well, some point in the past I’ve cleaned some up, but I couldn’t tell you what I did or when. In general it’s been a group sourced thing going back over a decade. Gunpla fans from all backgrounds have contributed toward this collection. At some point there was a Japanese Seeaa wiki page that had pretty much everything but that disappeared a few years back. What’s listed below is the combination of the collection I’ve saved up, plus others who’ve been archiving images like LightningBW, Gundaml1neart, and Tomo Wise (that’s a NSFW link btw). Some folks have labeled their additions over the years, and where possible I’ve made sure to use those. read more

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MG AGE-1 Titus “Ground Grunt” – Finished

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And it’s finished, my first airbrushed kit in a long time. It looks okay, not terribly fond of it, but overall not a bad testbed. Especially since, aside from construction, there’s maybe only a weekend worth of work into this guy.

The frame was weathered with a bit of overzealous dry brushing. Armor was painted with Tamiya acrylics ranging from X-31 to X-52 through XF-60. At this point I forget which is which but the darker areas are mainly custom mixes. The digital camo areas were my first attempt at the pattern and I think they turned out pretty well. It was done using sheets of masking tape cut to shape and overlapped between coats. It works great over flat surfaces but doesn’t work well on curved sections or around odd angles. read more

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Layman’s Gunpla Guide – Paint Types

Discussing paint types is perhaps the most difficult thing I’ve done on this guide. Frankly, I have a limited experience when it comes to working with different types of paint. When I find something that works for me I tend to stick with it rather than risk messing up a kit or investing in paint I’ll never use. While my experiences generally match those of professional modelers I’ve found that those professional experiences at times conflict with each other. All I can do is offer what I believe to be the best, most useful information for a general builder. read more

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Falldog’s Gunpla Projects

Here’s a list of my completed projects in more-or-less order from the most recent completion to when I first got back into the hobby in 2007. You’ll notice various spurts of improvements and, if you’re like me, may cringe at some of my earlier works. Below are all of the projects that I’ve completed. The number of projects currently straight built or in mid-project state are too numerous to count. For a better list of those check out my Flickr gallery.

Don’t forget to check out my overall collect and the kit reviews I’ve done. read more

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Shooting a Pseudo Skull

The other week our trip to the range included some interesting targets. Realistic skulls used to train medical students, filled with red Jell-o and spaghetti. For the record, that wasn’t my idea. The still shots were taken with my old D300 and a cheap, painfully slow, 70-200mm lens. Due to being cheap bastards the shots were taken using FMJ rounds fired from an AR-15. The movies were filmed by smaller point and shoot cameras mounted much closer to the target (everyone was safely behind the firing line prior to any weapon going hot). The shots turned out fairly well but there’s a lot of room for improvement. Anyone want to donate a higher fps camera? read more

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Layman’s Gunpla Guide – Gunpla Project Flowchart

This is an idea I’ve been tinkering with since 2012. New friends to the hobby often ask questions about what order to perform some steps, or whether or not one is even necessary for their project. To help answer I’ve created this little flowchart with some of the most basic steps that goes into an average build. Over all I tried to keep it as simple as possible so it’s easy to understand and applies to the greater number of builders. It’s okay to add or remove steps here and there if it fits your personal style or is necessary for the project you’re working on. I’ve added comments below the chart to highlight some key talking points and related tutorials. Make sure you check them out. read more

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MG AGE-1 Titus “Ground Grunt”


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I’d like to present another one of my many works in progress, the AGE-1 Titus "Ground Grunt."

She’s been painted from the ground up using an airbrush, notable as it’s been the first time I’ve used one since my first Zombie Nemos. Things went well from that prospective and I want to thank GoodGuyDan for making the brush suggestion late last year (yes, it took that long to try out). Dry brush weathering on the frame came out a bit thicker than I wanted (which always seems to be the case for me) but my first attempt with digital camouflage turned out quite well. The paints are Tamiya, some straight and some random mixes. Details are in gold, along with IC sockets, also painted gold. read more

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Project N-Unicorn – Start

Of my three upcoming MG Unicorn projects this is the second, project N-Unicorn*. It’s going to be a standard MG Unicorn, with the MG Banshee yellowish psycho frame, and a Nu Gundam color scheme. Here are a few pictures of the kit pre-paint. Frankly I think the clear yellowish pieces look pretty good with the white armor.


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PG Zaku II ver. Reprise – Fin


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Finally complete, yay!

For those of you new to the project, a little background first. After a long hiatus from Gunpla I returned to the hobby with this, Char’s Zaku II, back in 2008. Being my first kit in a long time, and a Perfect Grade one to boot, my Haro did it turn out like shit. Poor lining job, no details, stickers, and an orange peel gloss coat on top. I’d often thought about tearing the whole thing apart and giving it a proper paint and detail make over. Between my ever growing backlog of kits, and the difficultly of sanding down such a gloss coat, the thought never came to fruition. Instead I decided to revise it and complete another idea I’ve been bouncing around, a clear – yet frosted – Perfect Grade kit. read more

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Five Episodes In – Eureka Seven AO

Eureka Seven AO (also known as Eureka Seven Astral Ocean) is a sequel to the popular series Eureka Seven. Produced by Bones, AO is directed by Tomoki Kyoda (RahXephon, Eureka Seven) and features music by Kōji Nakamura (Supercar). AO tells the story of Ao Fukai, Eureka’s son, who joins Generation Bleu, a private company employed by nations to prevent occurrences known as Scub Bursts.

Eureka Seven is easily one of my favorite anime series of all time. Fantastic animation, fantastic music, fantastic direction, and strong va performances. Some folks may complain about annoying characters or the slow pacing of the show at times but that was an integral aspect of what made the show so great, the character development. Nearly every major character acted with some level of dispicableness and immaturity at but slowly developed and grew. Coming of age tales are a dime a dozen these days but few have done such a remarkable job as with Eureka Seven. read more

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