Hello everyone and welcome to week two of my free inquiry project! This week I will be going over the model that I will be making and taking an in-depth look at one of the videos I mentioned last week to learn about the materials that I will need and the painting techniques.
The model that I will be using for this project is the High Grade MSN-06 Sinanju. This is a 1/144 scale plastic model kit form Bandai’s line of gunpla from the anime Gundam: Unicorn. Below are some images of what the kit is intended to look like that I took from the instruction manual.
Now, these images are not what the kit will actually look like if you just straight build it out of the box. These pictures are of a model that has been given a professional finish and would require extra effort to attain should one want to build one of the same caliber. For example, the gold detailing on the black sections has been painted, but on the real model kit those gold sections are achieved with unappealing shiny foil stickers. The finished kit itself also does look plastic, like I mentioned in my last post. Lucky for me, I am going to put in all of that extra effort to give it a premium “real-looking” finish. Below you can watch a video where I go into detail about Gseyun’s tutorial and learn about how to spice up my model kit.
In the video I talk about the two main types of paint that I will be using, which is lacquer and enamel hobby paint. The lacquer will cover most of the kit while the enamel is reserved for the black parts as there is a specific technique that I will be using it for that is explained in the video. All of the parts will be primed using paint primer before any of the lacquer goes on. My airbrush will also be a little bit different than the example that I will follow. Instead of having one that is connected to a compressor machine, I will have an airbrush that connects to a can of compressed air to save on costs.
This concludes the planning stage of my project and I am excited to share with you all the action that will begin next week when I start on the kit!