My MG Blue Frame Astray build and photoshoots

My build is inspired by Mr Kawaguchi's build of the same name .
I first saw it at the Gundam Fiesta 2011 in Compass Point, Singapore and immediately fall in love with it.



Out of the box it would have been like this :



Default color scheme is yucky.

I love metal. I want metal so I took up the challenge to paint it like the master's !

My skill is far from the master as he is very attentive to details than my impatient and clumsy self. But I tried my best .

I wanted a red frame at first but it was only still HG and PG then . MG Blue Frame is out first so I went ahead and got it but it is ironic that MG Red Frame had already came out for a year plus and I only get the Blue Frame done now . I am that slow . Slow not in the sense of building a kit , but slow in deciding what to do with the kit .

This 2 weeks have let me relieve my experience of Gunpla. The fun the joy and the pain. Every day I hunger for another parts to be build , be painted and I only have the night to work on it . This is passion and it burns.


     

 

 

   

Mine ! I love macro lens!



Flight Mode!





Gatling gun turret


Tong-fer sword arms


Slamming kick !


You want a piece of me ?

MG Gundam Astray Blue Frame 2nd Revise Completed

Happy Birthday to me !!!
The Gundam Astray Blue Frame is finally completed. This has been a long a tiring week which I have yet again proved the gratification through passion and determination. For each and every single day of the these 2 weeks I have not stop thinking about how this kit will turn out . Stay tune for a full review and photoshoot which I will be publishing soon !

From MG Gundam Astray Blue Frame

Color experiment

After laying out the balance tasks at hand for the blue frame, I doubt myself I can finish them by next Monday.

Last night all I have acomplished is some gold parts only. The rest of time I m documenting the colors spray that I have got. Saw someone doing that on the net and I copied. Good method is meant to be followed anyway.

I'm making this note on my daily commute to work and home. These are 1 of those times of day I can't work on anything else except to wait for my transport to swerve and sway it's way till my destination. Daily 2 hours that is. Transportation is such a torture and simply waste of time! But till we obtain the technology of instant teleportation, we can't do a thing about it.
Side tracked as usual, time to fall back.

Tamiya mica blue did not turn out as metallic as I've hoped for.



Cobolt blue is lighter than I've known it to be!



Damn the base coat is making huge difference here. I applied a base coat of mr surfacer 1200 on the spoons if you would like to know.
Here comes the clear blue on silver coat.





I find tamiya clear blue is bluer than mr color clear blue.

Time to try out the new clear blue on the silver parts.

If it doesn't work I'll try mr color metallic blue or mica ...

Moving forward

The last Exia photoshoot seems to have spurs me forward.
I finally open up the Blue Frame Astray box, remove the runners from their plastic wrappers, pick up my cutter and ended my long break from Gundam making.

I started cutting out the feet pieces and assemble them for test fit. I usually don't follow the instructions from page 1 to final. Especially when I need to apply paint job, I hate to be forced remove stubborn parts which was in the way and risking me breaking it from the removal. And thus, took me about 2 nights, longer than usual to fix up the inner frame to get a feel of the kit.

The inner frame amaze me. It is quite different compared to that of Strike Gundam and Exia . The arms parts are actually capable of "curling" up which I have not seen in other kit. The hand bits is the same as exia's. Which means I have also cut them up into seperate fingers. There is great deal of fine paint job for the hands where as exia is zip, nada.

I am inspired Mr Kawasaki, the Gunpla Meister, blue frame build. I will be adopting his color scheme and hopefully achieve something close.

As of this writing, all the parts already have at least a coat of paint. I've finished up 3 cans (partially used) of color spray and just restocked yesterday. This spray cans are getting too costly. I yearn for an air brush for so long, let's see if I can make it happen this year!!

I wished I could get this build done by my birthday which is next week only. Finger cross.

MG Exia - Trans AM mode - Photoshoot

I thought I would never get this done. I finally bought the SB-700 flash unit . Time to have fun with it !!

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

From TransAM Exia !

Stay tune for the next photoshoot ! MG Strike Gundam + WISP !