Pro Shop Ball Hanger Dio!

After a Month or so of solid work and effort the Dio has been completed! A lot of firsts in there too. Battle damage was fun, soldering iron made quick work of that one, weathering on a large scale, and a diorama period was something new. I'm not going to bore you with all the hows and whys, if you want that please read through the WIPS on this project.

Introducing the Pro Shop Ball Hanger. Two pristine RB-79s awaiting launch but have been delayed to the arrival of a Ver Ka RB-79 that has been badly damaged by enemy fire and a beam sabre.

And after a ton of pictures...thank you for stopping by.

MG Pro Shop Ball WIP 8

All right just a fast update, the weathering is done as far as I can tell on the base. Its overly strong right now because I have not flat coated it. Have to over do it so it looks right when you flat coat it. Still working on the decals, but being that I have to do everything x3 its a slow process. I am not following the Ver Ka decaling instructions that's for sure or I would never have this thing finished @_@ . I got all the basic placement down there are still a lot of details that need to be finished like the painting of the support vehicles wheels and details. But I just could not wait to see how this all came together.

This guy will be getting some serious damage done to him, but first I have to finish all the clean work. Its a process, but worth it none the less.

Thank you for stopping by.

MG Pro Shop Ball WIP 7

I finally got the dang diorama to work for me. Simplicity was the key to this one. Pla-plate and some glue, drew some lines to make it look like a small runway and taxi routes with a sectioned off work area, that will be covered by the to vehicle. Oh well details I know are there. Below you can see the masked off areas so I could paint the lines and work area.

And the after with the grey painted for the flight deck. I will weather it up a little bit and have some more details to add, but all in all I am happy with the results.

And now a sneak peak at the decals I have finished. I could not resist using these decals!! They are so awesome.

And the standard design.

I added a little flair to it but outside of that the Pro Shop colors are really cool. I have a lot more decals to do and some serious work on the other details of the dio, should be fun though. Thanks for stopping by.

MG Pro Ball WIP 6

Painting, how I love to paint! I only actually got to paint one of these guys, but I love the metal look finish. and I am really hopeful that a nice flat coat will cover most of the plastics imperfections. Any way here is a sneak peak into the 3 RB79s. I will be finishing the assembly, and starting on the decals as soon as I can. The plan is to the beat the heck out of the Ver Ka I had and get her all weathered up and ready for a crash landing on my dio. Enough talk though!

I like that you can still see some of the red base coat I think it gives the gray a little extra shading. Not so shall we say gray....

The Mr. Metal Iron color worked nicely on the one on the far right. I would say its a pretty good match for the pro shop color scheme.

On another exciting note!

Is almost here, I have started the planning and purchasing. I have also found an amazing team to join!

The Ghost Squad!!!! I will be making the Sniper for the group. So needless to say I am going to have to modify a Zaku pretty heavily to make a decent sniper.

Hey what do you know. A sniper rifle setup. Nice And it shipped today. I cant wait to get this guy and see what needs to be done to make it work.

I also ordered the boosters to pimp this guy up as much as possible. I am thinking about a night scheme with some real dark blues and purples, but that is the flavor of the moment. As I can not start the build until December 1st I have plenty of time.

Thank you for stopping by, hope you like what you see.

MG Pro Shop Ball WIP 5

All right painting has began, and really is pretty close to done air brush wise. I have a lot of detail painting to get done though. Tried my hand at a few new techniques though. On the support vehicle I primed then sprayed flat black on all the edges, after that I painted the white over it giving it a more weathered look. I will still use weathering dust to make it look more used though.

Can you see the spot I neglected to paint....yeah going to have to fix that.

Here is the next technique I used. On the light color frame I sprayed it with a color very close to the darker portion, then used a mixture of silver and yellow to create a lighter color by spraying over it very lightly and at a greater distance than you normally would paint. I really like the contrast.

The stainless steel boosters stick out pretty nicely as well. Not too much, but just enough to be different.

The Dio part 2 is still drying the putty is taking forever, but it is very slowly drying maybe in a week I will be able to sand it....Sigh. Hope you like what you see, thank you for stopping by.