{"id":4231,"date":"2016-05-23T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=4231"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:32:16","slug":"grimgerdie-commission-a-quick-7-day-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamerabaenre.com\/?p=4231","title":{"rendered":"Grimgerdie Commission: A quick 7 day project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A little over a week ago, I picked up the 1\/100 Grimgerde as a commission project. The customer sent an email to me back in early March asking if I could build and paint the kit straight out of the box. The kit wasn’t released yet, so the project waited. Late April, the kit got released, but I wasn’t able to get my hands on the kit until May 14 when the local sources got the kit in stock. We had a build gathering, so it was the perfect day to start cutting, sanding, and snapping the kit together. I didn’t finish the job at the build gathering because things generally degenerate to food, drink, and for this past gathering; hanging out around the fire pit roasting marshmallows and making s’mores. Twas a good build gathering.<\/p>\n

I got about this far at the build gathering:<\/p>\n

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Sunday rolled in and the distractions of the previous day’s build gathering festivities behind; I focus on getting the rest of the kit sanded and snapped. And in short time, that was done and I was almost ready to disassemble everything for cleaning.<\/p>\n

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The customer had requested some extra sanding work to sharpen some of the edges, so the “bunny” ears got a little sanding work to thin them out slightly and sharpen them. One side was sanded and a few pictures are snapped for comparison.<\/p>\n

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An then the other side is sanded down and making sure the two ears match. It would suck if one was thinner than the other. And passing the visual check, these and the above pictures were sent off to the customer to let them know that work had begun on the project.<\/p>\n

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The other bit the customer wanted was to thin down and sharpen the swords. I got a response from the customer and they wanted the rear bumps on the ear’s sanded away, so that was done when I worked on the blades. Below are some example pictures. The ears are now flush at the back and come to a point. The blades are nice and thin, and sharpened to a point as well as along the cutting edges. I think I like this much better than the thick, blunt wood practice sword finish.<\/p>\n

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The start of week saw work on the painting the frame. After disassembly, the main armor parts were washed while the frame was painted. I spent the early parts of or bi-weekly broadcast painting – basically priming the armor pieces, some detail painting, and painting the swords in Alclad Pale Gold.<\/p>\n