I love your take on things and I find you very informative. Do you have any airbrush and other paint tutorial videos for post shading, pre shading, other beginner type things? With such a busy work and family life plus a tight budget I find myself watching and listening more than being able to sit down for large chunks of time for self learning. I know there are tons of videos out there but if it's not something I can enjoy listening to (like if they put me to sleep or something) then I can't retain it, I'm crazy that way.
I just happen to see a video of yours and I couldn't be happier. I am just getting back into modeling after well over a decade and I decided to start of with some Gundam, first. I had some kits in the 90's and they were shit. Anyways, I am coming from a background of mostly Tamiya military kits and you are one of the very few on here that treats their model, as just that, a model. Proper prep, paint, weathering, using other pieces to create something other than just a plastic snap mech, that looks cool in a pose, from a distance. I thought I could buy some military men sets, like I used to get, and create something I had in my head of a T-34 going up against Gundam. Then I built the mech..... The scales are not even close. Anyways, thanks for doing this. I hope more get to see what is possible and are inspired to take initiative and do their own thing with it.
Ahhhhhh youve found Doog's models. He does good stuff. The black-basing technique favors large models because the smaller and tighter you can get your marble layer the better it looks.
I got a four pack of the domain base. Sets are A, B, F and G and my goal is to build something similar to what you have here. Where can I get some of those awesome small peices like the stairs, shipping containers, etc.
You joined the hobby at a bad time. Back in 2009ish we could order paints, thinners, and any other supplies straight from japan. HLJ and such sites stocked Tamiya/Mr.Color/Gaia stuff and I used to buy it all the time, but then they issued a ban on shipping that stuff and HLJ dropped them. Finding supplies has been awful ever since.
This has become my new favorite channel. It's very relaxing to watch and I like yah anyway man. I also want to build and paint now. Get back to the old days of building WWII planes with my grandpa. Thanks man. Love yah.
What's your favorite brush to to paint small details Gundam? I always struggle painting small detals with my cheapo dollarstore brushes. I wanna invest in a good brush or set but I don't know what to buy. Do you have any Recommendations?
Here's a tip for later. Don't build your kits immediately when you get them. If you know you're going to need more of them later, especially for modding, you might want to make a silicon mold of it, and cast it via Resin or Green stuff. Finally, you might want to try playing around with dry pigments. You can get these pigments from Secret Weapon, Vallejo, or just buy some decent artist pastels and grind them up. This isn't particularly doable for certain parts. But for parts where they won't move or pose a lot. Yeah... can make a huge difference. Especially if you're trying to salvage a fuck up. These are really good for getting certain looks. Like Muzzle burns, burns on armor from energy weapons, explosions, and fire. Rust. The look of dirt and dust if a Gundam had been fighting on a planet surface. Stuff like that. Another really neat trick, and P3 actually has a tutorial on this, you can use Hairspray to add scratches to the paint. Given that Gundams are fighting in space, there's a lot of really abrassive materials and micro-meteors in space. When an space craft travels through space, they often come back with a massive amount of paint damage. From Drifting about in space at speed and getting sand blasted by dust particles. And re-entering the atmosphere. The trick here is to do a metal layer underneath the paint first. Seal off your paint layer with a matte finish. Then coat the model with hairspray. Let it dry, and paint over it. With a wet soft wire brush, you can add scratches, and bullet holes to the model. This techinque is also very good for applying weathering where mechanical parts are constantly in motion (along joints so the paint gets destroyed), or edges where they might scrape along things or get dinged up easily. You can even use it to add scratches, and gouges where the Gundam model needs to stand and walk around to tell a story.
Love both your channels man! Great job on your Sazabi as well. I believe in a previous video you said you were going to do a full conversion on a MG Sazabi. My conversion kit will be here in a few days so cant wait to see your work on that.
Do you have anything specific for sealing/covering seams(spaces between plastic pieces)? Last video I watched on it, all the comments could talk about was the guy’s fingernails and how gnarly they looked lol
Great vid Gundam! I’ve started getting into Gunpla recently so these videos come in handy! Thanks for the uploads and the content over on the other channel. Btw, have you heard about the new MG Gundam F90 kit? It’ll have 26 variations of it, it’s wild. Sunrise is also starting a new manga based on F90. A remake maybe of the original F90 manga? Anyways F90 is kinda of a prequel to F91 and it takes place after Hathaway’s Flash, maybe it’s gunna be the next adapted anime?
I've met a lot of people locally that say they like to change their Gunpla poses all the time. They're more of the snap-build types and don't dabble much in painting, but that's probably the reality of Gunpla; painters are a minority. Love that "squiggly line" weathered effect tho!
it takes me 2 days to paint a GMK and look shitty a$$ Phuk. and here you are smoking it. BTW you are going some good and funny stuff over @ its a gundam.
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8:55 like a preshade?
10:17 I like your sly calling out of a certain melodramatic dinosaur
That Tamiya Panel Line Accent Color works well for quickly filling in a bunch of panel lines. But you have to do some clean up afterwards.
@xxnike629xx And you have to actually build first your kits before painting them 😋
Happy little Gundams.
Great work.
I love your take on things and I find you very informative. Do you have any airbrush and other paint tutorial videos for post shading, pre shading, other beginner type things? With such a busy work and family life plus a tight budget I find myself watching and listening more than being able to sit down for large chunks of time for self learning. I know there are tons of videos out there but if it's not something I can enjoy listening to (like if they put me to sleep or something) then I can't retain it, I'm crazy that way.
I just happen to see a video of yours and I couldn't be happier. I am just getting back into modeling after well over a decade and I decided to start of with some Gundam, first. I had some kits in the 90's and they were shit. Anyways, I am coming from a background of mostly Tamiya military kits and you are one of the very few on here that treats their model, as just that, a model. Proper prep, paint, weathering, using other pieces to create something other than just a plastic snap mech, that looks cool in a pose, from a distance. I thought I could buy some military men sets, like I used to get, and create something I had in my head of a T-34 going up against Gundam. Then I built the mech..... The scales are not even close. Anyways, thanks for doing this. I hope more get to see what is possible and are inspired to take initiative and do their own thing with it.
Ahhhhhh youve found Doog's models. He does good stuff. The black-basing technique favors large models because the smaller and tighter you can get your marble layer the better it looks.
Tradfave...Doog is the ItsAGunpla of the airplane model building community. 😂
I got a four pack of the domain base. Sets are A, B, F and G and my goal is to build something similar to what you have here. Where can I get some of those awesome small peices like the stairs, shipping containers, etc.
The shading technique is called "Black Basing"
Nice to see a calm Gundam ever so often
Oooh nice! What's that technique of the squiggly lines called?
Kaine09...it’s called black basing. Check out Doog’s Models you tube channel. He’s the ItsAGunpla of the model airplane building community.
Can you tell me what paints are you usually use for small details like pistons, screws, etc? And do you use lacquer or waterbased mostly?
You joined the hobby at a bad time. Back in 2009ish we could order paints, thinners, and any other supplies straight from japan. HLJ and such sites stocked Tamiya/Mr.Color/Gaia stuff and I used to buy it all the time, but then they issued a ban on shipping that stuff and HLJ dropped them.
Finding supplies has been awful ever since.
Most American vendors focus on OUT OF STOCK
Do you thin the paint when doing small details like you are by brush?
Well done.
So the technique is swirling around the airbrush to get the effect? I really want to try this out on a hanger bay I just got
i would love to see your collection..would you do a vid on that?
I don't have that problem with alclad flat.... and i also spray heavy coats. Do you spray it at 15-20 psi?
This has become my new favorite channel. It's very relaxing to watch and I like yah anyway man. I also want to build and paint now. Get back to the old days of building WWII planes with my grandpa. Thanks man. Love yah.
Does anyone know where to get the hook hands and all the equipment and vehicles he's painting?
You’re RUclipss Freddie Prince Jr, it just doesn’t know it yet.
Its strange but i like this content even more than your other channel and i was already a big fan of that
From ranty gaming boi.
to...Weeb Bob Ross.
HOW DOES HE DO IT!?
That jobby reference lol
What's your favorite brush to to paint small details Gundam?
I always struggle painting small detals with my cheapo dollarstore brushes.
I wanna invest in a good brush or set but I don't know what to buy. Do you have any Recommendations?
I grabbed a detail brush set from amazon on the cheap for 20 bucks worth a shot.
@@ItsAGunpla Thank you for the quick reply! I'll give those a shot!
I would love to have half a room just for a hangar base/s and other dioramas for mobile suits.
Money first tho...
Love your content man! Keep up the great work Gundam.
I'd call it a manipulator.
A man's gotta have a release.
Where is that pretty girl in highschool man! she better be REAL grade 😂
cool stuff man, that weathering technique looks awesome.
Hey Gundy, will you be streaming this?
The gunpla god is back again!!
Keep up your great work! Inspired to do Gunpla because of you!
Here's a tip for later.
Don't build your kits immediately when you get them. If you know you're going to need more of them later, especially for modding, you might want to make a silicon mold of it, and cast it via Resin or Green stuff.
Finally, you might want to try playing around with dry pigments. You can get these pigments from Secret Weapon, Vallejo, or just buy some decent artist pastels and grind them up. This isn't particularly doable for certain parts. But for parts where they won't move or pose a lot. Yeah... can make a huge difference. Especially if you're trying to salvage a fuck up.
These are really good for getting certain looks. Like Muzzle burns, burns on armor from energy weapons, explosions, and fire. Rust. The look of dirt and dust if a Gundam had been fighting on a planet surface. Stuff like that.
Another really neat trick, and P3 actually has a tutorial on this, you can use Hairspray to add scratches to the paint. Given that Gundams are fighting in space, there's a lot of really abrassive materials and micro-meteors in space. When an space craft travels through space, they often come back with a massive amount of paint damage. From Drifting about in space at speed and getting sand blasted by dust particles. And re-entering the atmosphere. The trick here is to do a metal layer underneath the paint first. Seal off your paint layer with a matte finish. Then coat the model with hairspray. Let it dry, and paint over it. With a wet soft wire brush, you can add scratches, and bullet holes to the model. This techinque is also very good for applying weathering where mechanical parts are constantly in motion (along joints so the paint gets destroyed), or edges where they might scrape along things or get dinged up easily. You can even use it to add scratches, and gouges where the Gundam model needs to stand and walk around to tell a story.
Perfect listening while I paint my kits.
Thanks Gundum.
Love both your channels man! Great job on your Sazabi as well. I believe in a previous video you said you were going to do a full conversion on a MG Sazabi. My conversion kit will be here in a few days so cant wait to see your work on that.
Love your stuff man got me back into airbrushing
I am looking into getting back into painting
You go girl!
Jokes aside this is fantastic.
You need more sleep gundam
I agree
THERE'S A GUNDAM DOWN HERE!
Do you have anything specific for sealing/covering seams(spaces between plastic pieces)? Last video I watched on it, all the comments could talk about was the guy’s fingernails and how gnarly they looked lol
Great vid Gundam! I’ve started getting into Gunpla recently so these videos come in handy! Thanks for the uploads and the content over on the other channel.
Btw, have you heard about the new MG Gundam F90 kit? It’ll have 26 variations of it, it’s wild. Sunrise is also starting a new manga based on F90. A remake maybe of the original F90 manga? Anyways F90 is kinda of a prequel to F91 and it takes place after Hathaway’s Flash, maybe it’s gunna be the next adapted anime?
I've met a lot of people locally that say they like to change their Gunpla poses all the time. They're more of the snap-build types and don't dabble much in painting, but that's probably the reality of Gunpla; painters are a minority.
Love that "squiggly line" weathered effect tho!
I saw the technique for weathering a while back. Wish I had knew about it sooner.
I feel like Gundam is calling me out at the end there. I feel attacked
I learn a lot of shit from you gundam. if you ever wanted to do a tutorial focused thing, id love to hear the wisdom youve gained so far.
As cool as it is, I'm sticking with making stuff out of Lego.
Here we see a man slowly go insane....or fast.
Keep it up my Gundam 👍🏼 lol
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it takes me 2 days to paint a GMK and look shitty a$$ Phuk. and here you are smoking it. BTW you are going some good and funny stuff over @ its a gundam.