Project N-Unicorn/Nu-nicorn/νnicorn has swung into high gear. At least 80% of the pieces on this kit are getting individual attention. The brunt of the pieces being left alone are of the orange psycho frame. Aside from a few internal frame pieces that never see the light of day the rest are either being painted grey, a shade of silver, or being left alone and dull coated. The shades of grey are just slightly different enough that it breaks up the frame nicely. Though those subtle differences will likely be lost in the end photos.
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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.
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.
MG AGE-1 Titus “Ground Grunt”
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.
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.
PG Zaku II ver. Reprise – Fin
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.
Gunpla Rumor Time – PG Unicorn?!
The following just showed up on Samuel Decal‘s news feed…
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A FUTURE NEWS…. MG AGE-2 7月14日 |
For those too lazy to open up Google Translator, 月 means month, so this list represents August through November of this year. The notes following the PG Unicorn and Banshee seem to indicate that it’s currently in a testing phase and my premier at this year’s Chara Hobby???
Rumors are just rumors, but there’s enough there to get the blood flowing. HG Gundam Wing kits? A PG Unicorn?! Considering what Bandai’s been up to recently the list isn’t all the surprising. A MG AGE-2 is pretty much inevitable (though I would’ve liked to see a MG G-Exes first) and a MegaSize AGE-3, though in tune with what the previous MegaSize AGE1/2 kits, would be bloody massive.
And it begins again…
Just as soon as I finished building my MG Banshee, things begin again. The 6th, and perhaps final, member of my MG Unicorn family has arrived – the MG Full Armor Unicorn.
It comes after my MG Delta Plus placed first in Gundam Australia Forum’s Delta Group Build. A special thanks to Sonar, of Gundam Australia, and Ryan Sabourin of HLJ.
Time to start keep building!
MG Banshee – Unboxing Impressions
I just wanted to take a quick minute to share my early impressions of the latest member of my MG Gundam Unicorn collection, the Master Grade Banshee. P.S. Be forewarned, it’s incredibly late after a long day at work and this article is probably full of incoherent sentences and half finished thoughts.
The kit itself appears to have been built off the MG Unicorn OVA version kit. I have to dive into it a bit more but it looks like it has the shorter leg pieces (to facilitate a tad more poseability) and the non-vulcan head (though the head pieces are different, apparently to facilitate the Banshee’s antlers.
Gundam Posers – Submission Deadline Moved Back
The Mobile Suit Gundam novels are Zaku approved!
I’ve decided to move back the submission deadline to midnight of April 7th. That gives everyone an extra week to submit their entries. As you can see I’ve got the novels already and they’re just waiting to make their way to our lucky winners. I haven’t started to read my copy yet but I’ve certainly heard some interesting things from PenguinTruth who received a copy as well. A lot of new insights into the events of the First Year War and the events in the original series!