oh.. icic
i didnt know got differences for paint.

So which type of paint you guys normally use?... for painting the gold colour on virture cannon, and the metalic green on exia body and arms?
i never try before, but i did spray Tamiya car 10 years ago

Ah.. I've AB for gold, so i can share abit my experience.
For gold u have to spray alot of layers to really see the effect. I think i sprayed like at least 5 layers. Can refer to WIP thread and check out my WZC

for metallic green here's the advice i got:
1. Prime as usual
2. spray silver
3. spray clear green

There u have it

there's Handpainting, Spray cans, gundam markers and AB.....
Handpainting and AB uses the same types like lacquer(oil-base) and acrylic(water-base) types.
Spray cans are mostly for large areas then u use handpainting...
for u situation, since u're new.. i would recommend u go for gundam markers 1st..
there are gold and metalic green markers available but u'll need to find them

ermm...

gold and metalic green markers?!?..
This sound really good!!!.. but metalic green will be hard to find for marker type.

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Added on April 10, 2008, 1:27 ambro.. me no expert lar.. spray silver then clear green?
i never heard b4 clear green.. only clear spray got lar.
will go hardware shop to ask about clean green
Thanks for your advice.

btw.. anyone knows where got sell metalic green handpainting?
and what is AB anyway?

This post has been edited by k33vin: Apr 10 2008, 01:27 AM

gold marker is easy to find, for green one i have but i bought 1 set only got the green.

Dun listen to Myky44 1st, no offense dude..
wat he is telling u is AB. AB stands for Air Brush which i assume u dun have one..
tat's y all the colors he mentioned are for AB which is not suitable for u.
For markers, i kno Cineleisure 1 of them shops do sell 1 by 1 separately and other places usually sell in 1 set..

>>zero: non taken, cos didn't realise initially he's still new.

>>k33vin: i'll let Zero guide u, he's more pro then me

me not pro also la.. still learning also..

it is important to kno wat they really wan to ask so tat we could answer them properly as it would lead to confusion which last time i made mistakes.. haha..

Aiskk... thought want to get that issue timm,
btw, would like to ask this, at the 02-1 step 6, after he use the weathering marker ink on the cotton &apply it on the kit, he using which type of top coat?
& on the 02-2, he use brushes with water to clean it izzit, then he use back again the top-coat right? what does the last step 6 mention?

ok he used Flat top coat to do the work!

He is not using the brush to clean it! He is doing more touch up with dry brushing technique! First he soak the brush with ink then he tries to make it as dry as possible then he brush the corner of the shoulder piece then he topcoat it again!

Oh. Thanks for the explaination.
err, one last question when you mentioned ink, what kind of ink is that ?

Kena marah.. So direct the question here
How are vince tai lo?

This post has been edited by funkaymunkay1985: Apr 10 2008, 11:17 AM

masking wont give those camo effect...
but usually ppl use sticky tack or something like a play-doh to do the effect

actually this is the easy way...
and the hard/sifu level they always do using ab and control the thickness of the paint flow and slowly do the camo pattern on the kit surface...

this is hard to explain as i need to find a pic example

weathering marker! U can refer back to a few page before for wat the weathering marker look like!


AB can do camouflage, u can do it with doll to cover up or maybe straight shoot! I tried before but the effect not so good since back then i did have enough color and material to do so! my ACGUY was a failure.......may tried again on the upcoming Tieren 1/100!!! This time will go challenging this:

wow...
hmmm... straight ab on spot...
AB base colour, then change colour and randomly spray the pattern?

For the camo i've seen how it was done before. Looks easy from outside, but can see it's very difficult actually! As VincC said, it's all in controlling the flow of paint from AB.

Got a friend who does it for his tanks. Damn chunted.

can always ask sifu youtube mah if you wanna learn something

wow.. the AB skill is so damn good i wish i got those equipment... and a bigger room to keep.

will pay a visit to cineleisure later lar... want to get that metalic green paint for my exia

nice ab, guys any1 know wats is the best price for Abset include compressor.. lookin for cheap cheap one..

if u wanna invest AB.. better to invest a good one than cheap.. a good one will last u arnd 10 years...

Last time I got do "market research" for AB. The "cheap" AB set mostly from China. And the shop not giving u any warranty. So, if u plan to play Gunpla for another 5 years or longer. Collect money and buy a good AB set. If not, handpaint lorr. Some sifu here also use Spray Can and HP. And done a really good job.