I just finished re-painting my old RGM 79c today. This was my very first MG kit that my wife bought me as a gift, I’ve had this kit for about 3 years now (wow, I’ve been building kits for 3 years and I still haven’t bought an air brush).
The reason I decided to repaint my old kit was because I botched up the white parts when I first did it. That was my first lesson on building gunplay kits. Never spray at night with poor lighting. My wife didn’t want me to re-paint this because she liked it just the way it is. BAH! Women, what do they know? (I am so not getting laid tonight).
Here’s how the kit originally looked. Notice the dust and the dead insect?
I started the project at around 12nn the previous day. I sanded the old paint off and realized i didn’t bother painting the blue parts and the gun. I also noticed that I sucked at removing nip marks, probably because I used nail nippers to get parts off the gate.
Here’s the kit all ready for painting:
After Spraying the parts using Bosny car paints (yeah, left overs from an experiment on a bootleg kit) i hanpainted the red parts using Tamiya Enamel color. Here’s the thruster i painted some details on.
kickass! (blurry pics are blurry..sorry)
Here are some before and after pics:
Back:
Front:
Side:
All in all, I’m happy the way this kit turned out.
For those interested, here’s the paint I used:
Base Color – Bosny White Automotive Acrylic Color Spray Can
Secondary Color – Tamiya Blue Violet Spray Can
Inner Frame – Bosny Silver Automotive Acrylic Color Spray Can
Red Details – Tamiya Enamel
Head Antenna – Tamiya Chrome
Decals – Bandai decals (Gundam 00 edition)
Here are more pics of the finished kit:
Fear the Bear!
Hanging with da dawg:
Heroic Shot:
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