QUOTE(TheGreatBahamut @ Dec 22 2012, 11:05 PM)
Thanks for the compliment.
Ya, my first bootleg kit. The reason I bought it is because of the details and saw many good comments about it that time.
Hand painting is pretty hard especially with lacquer paint. Initially I want to spray it and ignore the lacquer paints I bought. But ascentic bro asked me to try it out, so I decided to take my first step on hand painting. The back of his legs actually I done some panel line but I covered it back with putty, so the surface not that smooth even though I already sand it for many times. Other red color part actually look smooth, maybe my lighting not good when I taking photos. But I guess main reason is I still noob, so the result not that good.

Still need to gloss top coat it, hope it will look better.
Anyway this kit really fun to build and look nice, it will be a meaningful kit to me because I tried out many modeling skills on it for the first time!

end result does not matter as much if u had fun working on the kit

there's always room for improvement, even for me i have never tried hand painting, only marker painting and spray painting.. i'm still very bad at these 2 though

but i enjoy working on the kits and detailing them up.. maybe i will revisit them when i improve

will try hand painting soon though, got some kits that are just screaming to be painted up

in the meantime, don't worry that it doesnt look that good, rest assured your next one will definitely be better!