First there was the matter of how to build and color the all-red shoulder armor and feet.
I started by painting the inside of the armor before applying cement to both halves of each foot and clamping them together.
Because the pegs on the shoulders are much bigger, I decided not to trim the sockets in the armor like with Tallgeese. Instead, I fully assembled the shoulders before applying contour putty on the seams of the armor. I also masked the shoulders with tape for priming.
To prime certain areas on the chest, I used tape on only 2 areas and covered the rest in masking solution. But too much curing time made the solution harder to remove, so I would switch back to tape. I would also fill in the seams of unmasked areas.
Here I'm holding the unused portions of a runner over the kitchen sink to try out a method I learned from Hobbylink Japan's Gunpla TV segment. In one of their videos, the host dips a paper towel in a dish of soapy water and passes it along a runner of parts before rinsing them with running water. This would enable paint to better stick to parts without priming. Taking it a step further, I scrubbed the parts shown with a soapy sponge . After rinsing the runner I would leave it on a towel to dry overnight.
That's pretty much it for now; I should have a more substantial report by next Sunday. In the meantime, I've just opened a new page on Twitter, The G2K, where I'll be posting up-to-the-minute tweets on my Gunpla projects, purchases and mishaps. You can also check my Facebook page for my next work-in-progress. Until then, I'm gonna watch Episode 4 of Gundam Unicorn again!
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