RG RX-78 Done....Finally.

The RG RX-78 is complete! I know it took me long enough. I just could not find the want to do the decals on this guy! All that is in the past now, and I even found a program to resize my images(one of my challenges since moving to a MAC) I decided that he should battle the RG Char's Zaku, I mean why not. Nothing too amazing done here the RG series is already super detailed and really only needs to be build and painted to make it great, so I stuck with that. I always look for a reason to use orange, and here I managed to work it in pretty well in my opinion. I did do some very light weathering of the paint mainly on the grey color, so the white blemishes are intentional. (:

But, enough typing words, your here for the pictures.....

Nothing like a 6 color scheme for a 1/144 Gundam. Took a little while to do for sure. Hope you like it and as always thanks for stopping by.

RG RX-78 Painted, decal time.

I took full advantage of the one sunny day this weekend, and painted my butt off! I even managed to reassemble, and future the entire thing. I swear, these RG's have as many pieces if not more than most MG's! I actually had to use the instructions to put him all back together. Almost sounds like a Humpty Dumpty thing. LOL....Below you can see my super luxurious paint station.

And here you can see what a 10 color, 1/144 RG Gundam looks like. Some of the parts are so very tiny, its a pain to take apart and scary because the last thing I want to do is lose a piece.

I really like how the colors came out. I was worried that this would not come together well, but in the end it really did.

Still need to get some panel lining done, and a million decals, but that's a few days worth of work to get done, and I will take my time. This is after all for a competition. And I like to win things!

As always thank you for looking.

RG RX-78 ready for paint.

A fast update to the progress of 1 of my 3 entries into the 2012 Mecha contest. The RX-78 is ready for primer then color! I had previously snap fitted this one, so all I had to do was some break down of some seriously tiny pieces. Then separate them into bins and chose the 10 colors for a freaking 1/144 scale gundam. This thing doesn't even sit more than 8-10 inches high!
Here I am separating the pieces into their little sections of my plastic containers.

All done, and the colors are set also.

As you can see its not a drastic color scheme, but its a huge change from the stock colors and a lot of little colors to be done. So many color changes and tiny pieces always make these real grades a pain to do. Oh well its worth it.

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