My Gundam assembly on my study table

From My Gundam Collection

What better way to start a new year other than a total celebration of all my gundams together. Joining them the newly completed strike Gundam.

2009 has been a fun year for my hobbies .
First I got my dream camera the Nikon D90 , and then I revived my old hobbies of Gundam making !

2009 it all started with watching Gundam 00 anime , bought SD Exia and 00 Raiser. And then started reading blog post and youtube videos on Gundam modeling techniques. My first experiment with the surfacer and soon fallen in-love with it. Suddenly painting is fun again ! My 30th Anniversary SD RX-78 is a huge confidence booster. So as you know , next I painted the SD Exia and Wing 0 Custom. To close the year, I completed the Master Grade Strike Gundam IWSP .

I have not really decide what's the next project I will be taking on yet . SD Strike Freedom ? Or get new MG Kits ? I thought since I am going to use the amount of time and energy for this hobby anyway, might as well use them on Master Grade kits ? They are really satisfying I think.

The start of the year is always hopeful , a new beginning where we can anticipate good things coming ahead of us . After all , what's life without hope , fun and laughter ?

Painting HG Wing 0 custom - Phase 01

It has been 9 years .

I have put it together out of the box for a long while . Didn't get to really paint it , till now .

After my 2 "successfully" painting with my SD 30th Anniversary RX-78 and Exia , I finally decide to get on with Wing 0.

Wing 0 has simple colour requirement : mainly white , classic Gundam blue and red , some gold linings , gun metal for metallic parts such as trusters and shoulder gattling guns .

Blue and Red spraying went well . For the red parts , I have applied the surfacer first , then on with the red paint (spray can). For the blue parts, I didn't applied the surfacer . Red parts are great . For the blue parts , it is not as bright n light as I thought it will be . This is probably because the base is already blue n the base colour some what affected the sprayed colour layer .

The white parts I actually tried to brush on the white surfacer .

It was quite disastrous.

The effect is no where near the sprayed surfacer .

I should get the white surfacer spray can and try over .

For the grey parts , I want to achieve the chrome metal effect .

Looks like another trip to the hobby shop soon.