HGUC Geara Doga - slightly weathered and now with action pose!

Fresh off the factory - non-weathered HGUC Geara Doga

Painted and satisfied, except that again some paint came off while removing the masking tape (The clear color I use seems to be responisble for this) - anyways, still looks good so far, and I will start weathering this Geara Doga soon - although I don't know how to weather a spaceborn MS yet. (I only can think of scratches on the surface, but not much else)

Anyways, 360:

And now some shots on some detail:

You also can see the Doga spinning on youtube:

HGUC Geara Doga - final spurt

Geara Doga is roughly finished in terms of painting - what's left?

• Gold for pipes/thrusters
• Sensors for the BackPack Camera and BeamRifle Targeting Sensor
• Pistons

How do I paint the camera/sensor? Masking and painting would be one way, but like with the HGUC Gelgoog Marine, I experienced some Issues with removing masking tape after clear gloss was applied (although I left it to dry 2 days!!! T_T ) therefore I'll stick with another method.
For this, I cut pieces of PlaPlate (0.3mm type) in the shape of the sensors - clue them on masking tape and will paint them with chrome and clear red/blue (trying to get a pink tone).
(atleast chrome will be applied with my Airbrush, since I will use it for the pistons anyway)

Cutting itself isn't that difficult, but since they're small, you should breath carefully - otherwise you might lose the part you trimmed for about 5 minutes.

How small? Here's a comparison with a 1 Euro coin.

(click to enlarge)

HGUC Geara Doga pt. 0

Starting from the bottom

I built myself a base for my currently under construction HGUC Geara Doga (Rezin Schnyder ver., but will be painted in the original green colors)
Basically, I used a base which is/was included with either HG Gadessa, Gaddess, Garazzo, Arios, Susanowo, Masurao, puttied one hole (more or less well,... more less), painted it black, applied one layer of clear, applied 4 water slide decals ( Gundam Decal vol. 72 - Neo Zeon Char's Counterattack - the MS name, it's model number, faction it belongs to and the plamo manufacteurer) and finally applied another layer of clear, sealing the decals.
Depending on the angle and the lightning, you won't notice the defects, but if you want to see the defects, check out the picture below.

Well - next time gotta take more care with that (honestly, even with mr. surfacer 1200 I didn't noticed the defects)
Still looking good enough for a display and bad enough to be a reminder to work more carefully the next time.

Gundam - heading out!

Et voila, like the French say.

Weathered my RX-79(G) Ground Gundam only by whashing it, drybrushing the weapons and thrusters, some additional dust on the feet and finally some soot below the thruster and knee vents. enjoy!

click on an Image to enlarge.

You might notice a crack on the face mask - I was shocked to see that!
besides that, my only complaints that I have - should have done a better job with masking the knee spikes and vent, but besides that, I'm totally satisfied with the work.

RX-79(G) painted...

...and again hated that the masking tape released itself on some locations

Painted the parts of my RX-79(G) Ground Gundam - currently waiting in boxes for weathering and panel lines.

Will be done tomorrow,... I hope that I can fix some minor painting defects during that process.

Detail up #3!

I just can't stop

Added 2 pipes to the right upper leg and 'stretched' the lower waist

For the pipes, the usual hole drilling and brassrod bending - nothing fency.
For the waist, I clued about 10 layers of 0,3mm Plaplate together and clued this plaplate stack on the lower end of the torso. Drilled a hole for the peg and sanded everything to fit and look quiet natural, after being painted (I hope).
Last but not least, I scribed some lines on the additional waist, which are continuing the original panel lines. - well, I find the the Gundam now to have a more sleek appearance.

In comparison, the original Ground Type Gundam (Image from Dalong.net)