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RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type
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| Series |
08MST |
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| Title |
RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type |
| Release Date |
June 2000 |
| Suggested Price (JPY) |
3,000 |
| No. of Parts |
approx. 230 + 1 polycaps + 1 dry transfer decal + 1 waterslide decal + instruction manual |
| Plastic Color |
White, Grey, Dark Grey, Blue, Red, Yellow |
| Grade |
MG |
| Scale |
1/100 |
| My Rating |
Very Good |
| Model Status |
Completed (2006-06-25) |
| Production Roll-Out# |
#24 |
Comment
I got this kit from a HK friend on his second visit to Malaysia and this is one of the earliest MG I owned. I
have been keeping this for years awaiting my skill to be good enough to do it some justice. After 4 years, I decided
to build this guy and I am following one of the Dengeki Magazine article to paint this in camouflage.
I think the end result is disappointing where that the color is way off from being militaristic. It is too
bright, especially under strong photo lighting. Anyway, the supposedly color to use should be dark green, mahogany
and middle stone. I do not have that paint and I tried to compensate the missing paint by mixing it on my own. I
guess I have better luck mixing paint for figures than Gunpla.
Construction Process
This kit is build in conventional way and completed at about 6 hours. When the model is completed, I took all
the armor parts out and draw the camouflage pattern with a Gundam marker. I am using the magazine article as a
reference for the pattern.
The mentioned article demonstrate using hand painting to do the camouflage but my brushing sucks so I did it with
airbrush. Airbrushing camouflage is not too hard once I get the hang of it. The initial green that I mixed is too
bright. I re-mixed a darker green and re-spray on it again.
Next, internal skeleton is sprayed using metal black and then the weapons are sprayed with flat black and later
with light gray for gradation effect.
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| Spray with camo but the green is too bright. |
Green is re-spray with darker tone. Metal black is applied to the parts on
the right. |
Model is re-built. Oil wash and dry-brushing is coming next. |
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Document Date : 2006-06-26 |
Responses to this page:
great ! well done job.
To be frank, the outcome is quite nice!!
not bad