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Efreet Custom – painting concludes

The past few days has seen the conclusion to the painting. The main armor is painted, then masked, then highlighted. But I’ll start off with the gold parts painted a few days ago. These parts have had that time to cure so on goes the masking. Using some thin yellow model masking tape, the gold areas are masked then the parts are painted with the base black and then a dark gray. About an hour after painting the masking is removed. I did some masking and detail painting for the exposed upper thigh internal piping. Similar process – masked, black base, then alclad polished aluminum – more masking, black base, and then alclad polished brass.

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Efreet Custom Part 1

This project begins at the build gathering since I didn’t have any motivation on the ν project so seeing Angel break out his Efreet conversion kit and a suggestion of a challenge, I pulled my Efreet Custom kit from the shelves. After finding the correct frame parts using an MG Gouf Custom that was long cannibalized for parts the kit was roughly sanded and test fitted with super glue as quick tack points and sticky tack to hold other parts together. I finished putting the thing together by the end of the build gathering and snapped a few quick shots with the camera phone.

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Catching Up

Continuing from the previous post, I had just returned from Colorado Springs. Just in time for Pasadena Modeler’s Society’s annual model contest Valley Con. A couple of the TGG guys clad in our blue t-shirts attended this event. I had missed this show last year, and as a group, we needed some sort of representation at this event to at least pass out some flyers and get some face time among the other local model groups. A day after the show, I headed out to Miami, three days after getting back from Miami, I headed out to Chile with a end cap visit to Laredo Texas; and then there was the March build gathering for which I started up on Efreet Custom Conversion kit since Angel was working on an Efreet conversion kit.

Details and all that happy crap after the jump.

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Playing Catch Up Part 1

Merry Xmas, Happy New Year, Happy Chinese New Year, etc etc… It’s been a busy several months, but I’m finally getting some time to off load the pictures piling up on my camera’s memory card, get them processed and uploaded to some gallery pages. Since the last post, I’ve been down to Santiago, Chile twice; some nighttime pictures at Disneyland, the annual ski trip, trips to Colorado Springs, Miami, Laredo Texas, Pasadena’s Modeler’s Society’s Valleycon 2013, and a few hiking trips around Southern California. The model building isn’t completely ignored. Late December saw the release of the RX-93ν Gundam version Katoki for which I’m using as a center piece for this year’s GWBC entry. The complete progress will be posted when that project is finished. In the meantime, I’m also working on a Efreet Custom resin conversion kit as a quick build and challenge with Angel who is building a regular Efreet.

Part 1’s pictures and links to galleries after the jump.

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