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been really slow in model world, some setbacks and disasters and REALLY

bad weather. It like raining 24/7 la! no chance to airbrush in good

weather. What difference does it make you ask? the humidity level when

it rains is super high. Accompanied by the fact that i’m already facing

ariver and live near the sea, its horrible. Firstly, water starts

condensing in the compressor cos as the air decompreses it cools and

condenses some water out. there’s a moisture trap for that purpose but

it gets half full in about an hour which is reall quite ridiculous.

Water spits out of the airbrush along with the paint and marrs your

good paintjob. The weathers also too cool for paint to dry properly,

dust and stuff settles on your wet paint and then dries. Oh well…

This is where i work, at my bro’s balcony. A high chair to sit on and

face the nice greenery as I paint. Trouble is parts dropping 3 stories

down into he beautiful greenery and gets lost forever. you can see the

contact lens solution bottle i use to put thinner. I took out the label

obviously, don’t want anyone to start cleaning their lenses with that

stuff. Airbrush is on the lower left, and the storage box i put

everything in.

some parts done, There were SO MANY PARTS that i used a entire bottle

of “Midnight Blue” (strange that it doesn’t look blue at all) to paint

it. oh well, there goes $2.40 i really think i might need some more.

The paint scratches easily, and the weather’s too bad to spray the “mr

Super Clear” to protect it. Oh well, more on that later.

closer up pic of the stuff i work on.

nice legs, very trouble some to paint, have to move it here and there

to get all the spots. Plus moving parts sometimes scratch each other.

So far no extremely visible damage.

its a foot, looks quite decent if i would say. I have to recolour all

the silver piston like parts that i covered in “midnight blue” or maybe

just black.

First disaster, as you can see the shield is sorta glazed and has a

cloudy look. IT IS NOT ON PURPOSE. Stupid “Mr Super Clear” only works

in hot and dry weather. Itssupposed to be a matt flat coat of clear

stuff that protects the paint. Sprayed on, looks fine.. then as it

dried it started becoming cloudier and cloudier unti i got what you see

here… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa……

Horrors!

Luckily i have this $20 aeromatherapy lamp from thailand! i basically

heated the shield over it and made it hot then sprayed on another coat

of MSC.. The frosty look went away luckily… and i was left with this.

So far my worst build ever! My worst disasters on one model kit! oh

well, maybe not the worst, my 144 strike was worse… but neverthless,

still very sian la. I was quite excited initially at the idea of making

a PG, but now i realise why people don’t really choose this grade as

something to paint and modify or what. Its a real pain to paint! Now

i’m on to the white white portions. Those are REALLY a pain, cos you

don’t even know whether you covered the part! then the only time you

know is when the pain starts to run or build up and get spoilt. oh

man… =< anyhow, its realy an experience, probably my last. Also.

these things are meant to be fix posed i guess…