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 ...

Virtual On - Raiden - Phase 01

In my humble opinion, Virtual On is the best mecha vs mecha arcade video game to date. I believe it is my obsession with this game that my friends actually chip in together and bought me the twin joy stick meant solely for this game for my birthday. At that time it was a revolution for SEGA in this aspect of robot battle as the control actually make you feel like you are a Gundam pilot for awhile (mechwarrior just don't cut it as , hey , you don't see any pilot controlling Gundam using keyboard and mouse , do you ?)
Yet, Virtual On has only 1 measly follow up sequel and it certainly ended just there.
(Mech Warrior atleast made it till 4 ? This world is just NOT FAIR !)

I bought 3 VO kits a decade ago and only manage to complete 1 successfully ( VO - Viper ). VO - Temjin ended in utter disaster and some how it broke the continuity of completing the last kit, VO - Raiden .

From WIP - Virtual On Raiden

I have this kit assembled long long time ago but not painted, nor applied the decals. It is just standing there gathering dust in my previous cupboard.

This round, I decided to use it as a "test bed" for practicing a new paint sequence which I have not tried before.

I wanted to get a chrome metallic blue colour which is probably different from the stock metallic blue offered by the Mr Color series spray paint. This may be the combination which I would like to apply on my Gundam Astray Blue Frame in the end.
Behold, my blue Raiden !

From WIP - Virtual On Raiden

The paint consist of 4 layers sprayed in the order : Surfacer > gloss black > chrome silver > Clear blue . I have to wash the kit first , very very thoroughly.

From WIP - Virtual On Raiden

From WIP - Virtual On Raiden

From WIP - Virtual On Raiden

Now I am done with spray painting and the next step is to hand paint the rest . Crap! I ran out of Steel color spray ! I wish to get a air brush soon , but sigh , that will be a whole new challenge altogether .