Gundam Unicorn

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With her completion she’s been officially designated the NUnicorn. A silly, yet endearing name. It’s okay, because I prefer the nickname ‘Noon.’

This is fouth MG Unicorn kit I’ve completed (one, two, three) and it’s clear to see the improvements over each one. There’s so many opportunities to design new schemes that I’m looking forward to painting the other two I have in my possession.

For Noon roughly 90% of the kit has been painted or at the least received a top coat. Only a few pieces of the internal frame, those not visible, remained untouched. Excluding the orange psycho frame of course. For some reason I like how it looks with the white armor and wanted to keep that aesthetic. The rest of the kit is fairly true to the Nu Gundam colour scheme aside from a few tweaks here and there. Most of the paints are Tamiya; Bright Mica Red, regular &  Matt Black, various shades of silver, and a light gray (inner shield & under some of the thruster flaps). Parts of the frame received my favorite Krylon gray primer while white primer was used as a base for Tamiya’s white on the stomach/hip parts. read more

Last WIP shots for this project. In fact, most of it is almost done, just a key few pieces currently baking. I just wanted to snap a few shots now. For whtaever reason, when this kit is sans arms, you can really see Katoki’s love of long legs.

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Things are slowly coming along. I’ve been having some trouble painting key orange pieces yellow. I’m probably going to have to prime all of them on my Titans Unicorn. :/

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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. read more

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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