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  1. Hikuro
    mhm, I'm not a big fan of the pen right now. While it does decent work on panel lines, actual sculpting details like hash marks or wide open slits, it does poorly on. Those are things that an actual enamel wash can do rather decently on its own if you got the proper mix done...the paint will just flow really well. On the plus side, unlike the enamel wash, the areas you have to clean up where the brush touch the surface doesn't smear like enamel will. So you can get longer use out of your q-tip. Of course videos show them using rubbing alcohol and yet I have to use lighter fluid. Sometimes not right.
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    Finished my NT-Alex today even using the new Gundam markers. I don't like them that much. You need to wait a little while to get them dry then clean them up and lemme tell you, they only work well half the time. Maybe I just dunno how to use them properly. But the clean up was just so hard to do compared to normal enamel washes I've done. Stickers are ancient you can tell, they off set cut for them is almost twice the size of the printed portion so I had to size it up and make the neccessary cuts to make them fit properly. God, what an old kit this was lol.
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    The benefit for the sticks and clips is not only to keep parts seperated, but because you can paint the entire part you need in 1 go versus letting them stay on the runner tree and have to wait for it to dry then flip it over to do the other side. Problem with that is you might not get every little nook and cranny. You get a nice even coat of paint doing it this way, it takes longer but by god does it work better. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LKWA6Y2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1%C2'> I got them here, deal of 50 for 9 bucks on prime, not a horrible deal imo. Sticks do tend to be kind of worthless over time....I've lost like 3 cause they splintered or were already broken. The rubber grips aren't the best either they'll get sticky with paint. So when they're toast you just change it up with masking tape on one end of the clip to the stick and you're good. recycled styrofoam to me is the best way.....I've got tons of this stuff from when I moved. But I so do prefer painting now this way.
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    GM-301P-303P, Black, Brown and Gray. They run ink through the panel lines versus using a pencil or a gundam marker and draw the lines. You just top the panel line gently with the tip of the pen and the ink runs down. The biggest problem I have with it is that it's a huge amount of ink that's going down those lines, it's easy to clean up, really easy. I just gotta get use to this style though I think.
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    I got my pens today. Hmmmm, I'm not so sure about these new pens. They're very watery. Worked well with solid panel lines, but things like rounded details or scoops, they don't do well at all on. I'll give it a little more effort.
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    Funny, I saw someone do a custom scratch built RG RGM-79 in White Dingo colors. Looked great!
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    Seeing the outrageous pricing Bandai does for their Blu-rays, take what you can get. I know a lot of guys who are pitching a fit because they think the Blu-ray is amazing high end quality. Well, you can also get some pretty damn high end quality having a DVD in a blu-ray player just like having a blu-ray in a 4K player. Considering the age of the series and it being one of the last gundam anime's done in traditional celluloid style....can't hope for much. Then again, there's something about Tomino's work that now bugs me and Turn A fits right in there. I dunno hard to explain. Either case, I'll pass on Turn A, rather have some of the other stuff.
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    Did you wanna pay 200?
  9. Hikuro
    I do reviews on GP for the points but Monday was the first time I've ever ordered from them as I wanted to try those markers, I'm sick of the mess enamel washes leave and how much time it takes to clean it off the plastic when I don't get a good mix done. I should have a couple packages today from Amazon though. 1 is just a new volume of origins bringing me to I think volume 5 and it'll answer some questions I had about blue eyes casual. The other 2 are HD parts for my Zaku 2.0 like the spikes and mono eye. Next week I'll have decals for my GM 2.0 a guy in my build club got me from the new hamsphire store. I'll be turning that GM into a White Dingo custom
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    I wish I had waited until the perfect g self showed up before I got it. It's kinda hard getting rg zero from Amazon direct it sells out pretty quick. I just picked it up last month from the hobby store they had 4 of them. Price wasn't to much different either.
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    That's a much nicer pen imo than the normal everyday gundam markers we all use. Infact I would say I'd rather use the GM301 than having to mix my own enamel wash and rubbing alcohol will work jsut fine and I got that in plenty supply. I'll have to go looking for those. What I usually do is I take about 3 drops of flat black enamel to a bottle cap with a good amount of lighter fluid and mix that all together and it works decently well, but won't last long as the lighter fluid will start to evaporate or the enamel paint will begin to settle at the bottom.
  12. Hikuro
    isopropyl alcohol and a q tip might help
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    At least your strike is coming along. Washed the parts for my Dark Matter, I'll pick up paint for it after work or something tomorrow. I ordered some HD builder parts for my Zaku 2.0. Not bad for 15 dollars worth picked up the mono eye and spike parts. I'd like to custom paint the zaku too but I can't find the greens I need do the job and the kit isn't exactly as highly detailed as a RG. I do wanna do a little bit of something to it, I just hadn't decided on exactly what, nor any clue how I'll paint the spikes as they're gonna come as a light gray color. Anyone know a Tamiya paint that resembles very closely to the Zaku?
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    Thanks, it was a good GM kit, much nicer than the original of course. I went over my instructions to the GM Powered, Alex NT-1, and GMIII.......they all use a different mobile limb system which I thought bandai was gonna start making these things all similar so you COULD create different unique units? Ah well. Sadly my idea of parts here and there just wasn't going to work without taking the chance to cut and destroy and snip certain areas. I still got a couple of ideas to maybe make it work but I really dunno. It's kind of hard to envision this Gundam in my head....or place it UC time wise.....somewhere after OYW, but maybe not before the end of the Gryps conflict? I dunno. Either case! I noticed that Bandai had released a Real Color Type Zaku 2.0 that's just a glorified RG before RG's came out. There's decals available and thought that'd be good to have and do some color job on my Zaku 2.0 I got while back. Problem is, like we all know the decals you can buy seperately don't come with instructions. Any idea if there's an image laying around the net of the decal placement from the Real Color type Zaku?
  15. Hikuro
    I'm all finished! GMII Before Weathering and Decal Application. GMII After weathering and decal application. GMII ready for close quarters combat. GMII thought it could take on my EZ-Blue Destiny....bless it's heart!
  16. Hikuro
    my weekend is going splendid! After doing some house chores, mowing 80% of the lawn before the mower went "Naw I'm done for today" I built my GMII and I love it! It's coming out fantastic, wash is done, assembly was very simple and clean....didn't even really need the instructions other than knowing which PVC is where.
  17. Hikuro
    On tight areas where the marker uses up the entire panel space leaving you a black or gray glob, I use my thumb or finger and wipe away the excess area. Works about 99% of the time just fine. You'll stain your finger for a little while but it's no big deal. That's what I did in the past. Today though? I'm mainly doing the enamel washes instead. They're a bit faster and the lines are thinner and they'll follow the edge details much nicer than a marker can. But once in a while I still like doing a marker for certain details. I met up with a friend and her son who adores me, pretty sure I've made mention of this a few times hah. It was Kifa's birthday a couple weeks ago but I got slammed with work so I couldn't drop off a HG Strike Full Package until last night. We met at the hobby town in portland oregon and they must of just restocked cause I was shocked at what I saw. I ended up kinda caving in and picked up the Thunderbolt Full Armor for 24 dollars, I couldn't argue with that when another store last I saw wanted 45! Saw a Titanium Sazabi and did a double take on that, almost a hundred bucks for that mother! But I managed to pick up a few paint supplies and new detail brushes I need for my HG's, and we decided it was time to upgrade Kifa from HG to RG since it was still in the price range. We also got him hobby snippers cause he'd been using a knife and I warned him of the potential dangers to plastic bits flying off or cutting into his parts by accident. What was really neat though someone must of donated to the store cause their ceiling was littered with super old Gunpla. Whoever did it though wasn't very good as their detail lines were massively thick and wobbly like they couldn't handle the marker direction or used a felt tip pin.
  18. Hikuro
    I'll get you next time Solo.
  19. Hikuro
    I typically will cut, trim off runner bits then carefully wash with dawn dishwashing soap and leave them to dry over night or longer. It's kind of a pain, so far my best time for a complete repaint was 3 weekends. Not fun at all. Mentally draining and it wasn't like I was doing anything elaborate like some modelers try.
  20. Hikuro
    well, I'm on my way to building my GM II. Just a neat thing, but when you got the right tools to do brush work, you can do a pretty decent job of coverage in tight spaces with fine tipped brushes if you spend a little money. All in all, I like how my paint job came out on my GM II. if I really wanted too I could finish this sucker tonight but nah.
  21. Hikuro
    The only thing I took from this episode was that even a stock mobile suit like the X1FC can do go toe to toe to OP 00 scratch build kits like those. The ONLY thing not HG about the X1FC was a scratch build core fighter, which I'm not against but everything else about that kit were items that come on the X1FC master grade. It wasn't like it needed to rely on some super power pulled out of the ass of a 15 year old with a fighting spirit kind of crap.
  22. Hikuro
    I binged watch the series yesterday. That wasn't bad. I didn't really dig the beginning few episodes but as it got further along and the characters build I grew to enjoy the series so I'll look forward to season 2.
  23. Hikuro
    CG for Cuteness Grade. it's how you get the nerd chicks. HLJ has more gunpla for preorder. Origins Guntank, Denial Gundam and Hyaku-Shiki 2.0 are all up. really surprised by the Hyaku-shiki price point. everything I was seeing online states it was going to be just about 70 dollars list. HLJ has it for just under 50 list.
  24. Hikuro
    I finished the God Gundam last night....really didn't put a lot of effort into it cause it got blah for me. I mean 30 dollar decade old kit it's not gonna have as much appeal to me as a UC kit would of that age. All in All it came out fine and as I'd of intended it to be. now I got 13 other gunpla kits to work on.
  25. Hikuro
    when you start seeing the pattern of what goes where you build faster. I practically did a HG nemo with no direction except which poly caps go where.
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