WiP 4 - Bandai 1/144 RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 "Advanced Hazel"

  Well I am getting there, spent most of the day doing this little one.  It's amazing how long painting the little bits actually takes.  I am now having trouble with the yellow, but that should be okay once I have put on a few more coats.  Pictures below...

  All good gun, once those yellow and white bits are done it should be clear sailing onto the part I have been looking forward to... the decals!!! :D

  Hopefully more soon,

  PEACE!

  Dazz

WiP 3 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog

  Not much of an update on this one, but I have tidied up what mess I made to it.  Took me a while to remember what paints I did actually use on it in the first place.  Got there eventually tho...

Just got to paint a few more bits on this one and then gloss it up.  Hopefully this one will be done really soon!

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 3 - Bandai 1/144 RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 "Advanced Hazel"

  I have finally got my hands on a Tamiya Spray can, can you believe that the Royal Mail will not let these go through the postal system?  Apparently they have been destroying entire parcels that contain even one of these... anyhow armed with that knowledge I had to go to my local hobby shop which is an hour away (even more if you hit all of the bloody red lights...).  So anyhow, after my mishap with the actual Tamiya paint, I had to de-cant some of paint which is a first for me.  I managed it without it going everywhere!  WOOHOO!  Once it has been "de-gassed" it sprays really well, however it is a right bastard to clean up after, XF-20A struggles with it... I got some time to get some work done on the Hazel not much but the painting of the purple is done.  I had to take these photos on my phone as my DSLR's battery decided it would be a good time to die.... bloody typical...

  

Once again I apologise for the dodgy photos, here is the majority of the parts painted.  Thank god that purple is sorted.  Just got to do the detail painting now.

This is one of the booster units mostly masked up ready for some painting.  I got to paint yellow on to that dark purple... oh this will be fun...

This is what has taken most of my time today, it is not much but that yellow is a right bastard to paint.  I am happy with the way it has turned out thus far. :)

Hoping to get some more done soon.

PEACE!

Dazz

WiP 2 - Dragon 1/144 F/A-18 E VFA-105 "Gunslingers"

  I done some decalling work on this one today when I was waiting for the paint on the other ones to dry.  I forgot how much hard work Dragon decals where.  I might arm this one up, still not sure yet.  Still got a little bit more to do on her tho.

   Not many decals on her really, I need to sort that yellow out on the tails... or I could be really lazy and just leave it entirely... hhmm...

   The other, more photogenic side!  God knows what makes it like that... I have coated this in 4 coats of varnish so hopefully I will finally be able to do a decent wash on it.  I doubt it will work like that tho.

  Close up on the "Gunslingers" mascot (it that what it is??), this thing is about 7mm high and look at the detail on it.  Very cool :)

   That is all for the F-18 E thus far...

  PEACE!

  Dazz

WiP 2 - Bandai 1/144 RX-121-2A Gundam TR-1 "Advanced Hazel"

  Haven't really done much with this one either, I'm still trying to sort out what happened with the purple in my other post.  So I done what I could with what I have.  Trying to find somewhere that sells Tamiya paints in cans that isn't over an hour away.  This is the first time I have ever used Bandai waterslide decals, god they are thin!  I had to work with them really fast for fear of ripping them.  But they have thus far conformed beautifully.  I have only done two boosters and the shield part.  Guess that is better than nothing tho...

  I have kinda done a custom paint job on the white booster.  That black bit is not supposed to be there, I just thought it looked too plain just being pure white.  So I added that bit in for fun, I have still got to detail paint the rest tho.

  PEACE!

  Dazz

WiP 2 - Scottish Aviation Bulldog

  Finally got a little bit done on this one.  It was a right bugger to mask up all of the parts for spraying.  Took me about 2 hours to mask it all up and about another 5 minutes to spray it.  Maybe I should move onto 1/32 scale stuff?  Will take me longer to spray!  As I had forgotten to spray the hi-vis bits before the camo I had to spray a white undercoat over the camo then the red.  Luckily I've learned how to spray red paint now after my cock-up with the F-15 ACTIVE.  Hasn't come out too bad I don't think, however there was a bloody lot of bleed from the white paint.  My dodgy masking skills at work there I guess!  Well onto the pictures...

  

See what I mean about the white?  I will have to sort that out... that will be fun.  Wont be long now until I gloss it and decal her up and finished.

PEACE!

Dazz

Random new purchases.

  Well I thought that while i was putting some bits and bobs up here I will post some of the new things I have bought this year... onto the pictures in no particular order!

 

  Got this becuase it was cheap (I think about £2) and it looks cool.  I think it is for the range of Armoured Core mecha you can get.  But I think a Gundam will look just as cool with it!

  One of those things I saw and just thought "WTF?!" So I had to buy it, I think it was about £3 also so very cheap.  I have since built it.  I will post that one up at a later date.

  Just a picture because I could :P

   And a little bit of the instructions for this bad boy, that stand comes with the model.  It has 4 shields in total iirc.  It will be fun building this one.

  I already have the Zeta Version of the Mk II, so I got this one, which as far as I can tell is excatly the same.  Bar the head unit and the backpack/booster.  I got it cause it was cheap and I am going to use this one as a test bed for weathering.

 Got this one cheap and also for the F-14 Tomcat II Group Build on BritModeller, it might be a while before I start it tho.

  Been looking forward to this one for a long time.  I have looked inside the box and it looks great.  I will have to make this one in the summer when I have some free time.

   Everyone's fav F-22 it seems, well I have seen the moulds for this and  I am a little disappointed.  I feel the Trumpeter version is better but I will post pictures up later and you can make your own decision.

   That is it for now!

  PEACE!

  Dazz