Making Scratch Building Tools

In preparation for some future scratch-building I'll have to do, I've taken the time to put together some templates to make cutting out styrene plate easier. 

I've made six templates with starting at 5mm, increasing by 5 for each plate up to 3cm. Now I won't have to take measurements every time I have to cut out some piece of styrene.

Extreme Gundam in Action

Little strip guest-starring NagatoYuki and Nyoron-chan!

Kit Build #1 Extreme Gundam - part 6

The 2nd Face

 

 

I like how this alternate face looks, though the white face mask hides the little red chin. The v-fins of the default head protrude nicely from the back of the head, looking as if it were some gaudy ancient war helmet. The beam saber was painted in Tamiya Candy Lime Green and the former clear blue parts were painted with Tamiya Light Metallic Blue.

Default Face

Compared to the 2nd face, Extreme Gundam's default face exudes that "Gundam" feel whereas the face on the back of the head appears to be wearing a helmet. I invested a lot of time on this kit to set it even slightly apart from the normal Out of Box build I prefer to do. Some of the too-white parts were just begging to be painted and in the end the result is quite satisfying, especially the the 2nd face.

Kit Build #1 Extreme Gundam - part 5-2

2-Faced

This is what the faces look like after some painting. The blue is from a Tamiya Light Metallic Blue spray can. I hand painted the sparkly greens using BB Senshi Sangokuden Gundam Marker thinned with a couple of drop of retarder. The yellow eye are also hand painted with extraced paint from a Tamiya Yellow spray can. The black surrounding the eyes is a cheapo shortcut using a black Gundam Marker pen.

Tamiya?

 

I'll definitely be switching to the Tamiya brand for my quick spray painting needs. For one thing, I can get them cheaper than the Mr.Hobby sprays and the color selection is much more vast. Another thing is the Tamiya paints seem to cure better in comparison to Mr.Hobby.