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And it’s name is Epyon.

Finally painted up my RG wing like I wanted to. Early color style. This sat in a box with the colored parts primed with grey primer for 3 years. Most of the white parts are bare plastic other than the shoulders, forearms, and skirt tabs.

Almost done

I rarely post anything anymore, I’ve been a busy parent 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is where flugel is at

In the process of flugel

Out of all the color choices I’ve made for my gundams. This is becoming my favorite. Panel lining with colors helps too

I had an idea

Finally got liaoya done up. The dragon fang was the biggest gold up trying to figure out how to light it

Got this thing done finally. Until I learn to resin casting.. this is as good as it’s gonna get

Three down. This one was actually somewhat planned before the rest. I wanted to have this armor on the ew custom, but I came up with the concept of having the evolutionary step and having the customs be able to wear the armaments.

Now that I got a set up for pictures going I’m gonna try to get a shot every weekend. This one I enjoyed a lot due to the fact it took me forever to match that purple grey to D Hells light grey/purple color

Finally have a set up for photos. More to come!

Redrew the arms and legs. The buster has now been redrawn to something I like, touched up a few parts. Still deciding on what colors I want to use. But I feel like something is missing here

Trying to capture that raw mmz style

All lined up for the basics. Redid the head, gonna fix some proportions and clean up the lines

Working on an old drawing. Redoing the head, and I’ll be coloring

The importance of sanding nubs, pieces fit together much better

I got the kotobukiya x2 armor (which by the way I’ve been wanting a figure or a toy of for decades!) I was hoping d-arts would do it but nope. Then 4inch bel but NOPE! Finally I’ve got a model and I can paint it what colors I want. Also, as you can see, it comes with zeros x2 buster.

As for my painting plans…

Something I drew over 10 years ago

Discovery Enterprise Project:

Part 4

LOTS of masking !!

Discovery enterprise project:

Part 3

Lots of masking and more stuff done

Paneling next!

Also, the belly isn’t done because ri intend to seam hide after the lights are installed. Same for all the other seams

Discovery enterprise project:

Part 2

Did up the nacelle primary colors. There will be more to come in regards to paneling and such.

Started the deflector dish paneling as well. I got just the right amount of subtlety

Also experimenting with the chiller grills. Sprayed clear blue on the back then did a clear base and alclad 2 chrome on the topside. This way it looks chrome when unlit and light still passes through when they’re on

Small light test with my phone

Now on to painting the impulse engine

Discovery Enterprise project:

Part 1

The start of a new project. My first time painting anything since august. I’ve only painted the deflector dish but I’m using the colors of the original enterprise on this.

Yes I’m a Star Trek nerd. A lot of my older posts are me building star ships