{"id":1653,"date":"2004-07-06T16:54:07","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2009-02-11T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T00:55:24","slug":"in-progress-%c2%bb-the-crimson-iota-ex-s-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-%c2%bb-the-crimson-iota-ex-s-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u00c2\u00bb The Crimson Iota EX-S Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"

05.10.04 \u00c2\u00bb Concept
\nWork<\/p>\n

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\nmy next project, I’ll be tackling the Master Grade EX-S Gundam.
\nIt’s a rather large and “partsy” kit. I don’t think I’ll
\nbe doing anything modification-wise to this piece. I may add some
\nLEDs, but other than that, it’ll be OOB. (out of box) Best case,
\nI light up every “green” spot on the kit. Worst case,
\nI do the head and booster lights. I counted 27 green parts which
\nwould need lit if I went the “best case” route. Plus the
\n4 boosters. If I go that route I may look into skipping a battery
\nand going with an AC adapter. LOL!<\/p>\n

Color placement-wise, I got inspiration for the white
\non the shoulders and stripes on the booster pack guns from an EX-S
\nI saw in Model Graphics a while back. The rest of the color choices
\nare because I think they look cool. The color that I don’t feel
\nis coming off very well over the web is the blue\/purple color. I’ll
\nbe mixing that to be a very pale blue-violet with airbrush fades
\nof a lighter version of the same color. Kind of like I did for my
\nReGZ. The reason for the blue-violet is to compliment the orange
\nand yellow accents on the rest of the kit.<\/p>\n

Decal-wise, I was looking through a book on WW2 nose
\nart that a co-worker of mine had and decided to base my “Miss
\nIota” decal idea off of some that I’d seen. It’s amazing the
\nvarying quality of the nose arts. Some were crap while others were
\nsimply amazing. The rest of the decalse are various text markings
\nand such. I drew my girl “simple” due to the limitations
\nof the ALPs printer. There is a screening to the purple and orange,
\nbut it’s slight thanks to Peter and Models4U! Thanks man!<\/p>\n

There’s no made-up back-story for this kit. I’m basically
\ndoing it because this is the way I want it done.<\/p>\n

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06.23.04 \u00c2\u00bb Painting… FINALLY!<\/p>\n

I finally finished sanding and got to painting this
\nthing. It has so many parts that it took me longer than usual to
\nget started. Plus I took a week off to do the GunTank. Anyway, I
\nhave 3 colors sprayed so far. Here’s some pics:<\/p>\n

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07.03.04 \u00c2\u00bb Ink<\/p>\n

The painting is almost done. All I have left is to
\npaint the lenses and that won’t be until I’m done with the decals.
\nThat’s because I don’t want a flat coat of future over my lenses.<\/p>\n

Currently, I’m inking all the parts. It’s taking forever,
\njust like EVERYTHING with this kit. I have decided that to save
\ntime, I’m going to build what I can as I ink before decaling. The
\nreason for this departure from my norm is that it took 3 1.5 hour
\nairbrushing sessions to apply 1 coat of future to all the parts.
\nBy building sub-assemblies, I’ll have less skewers to paint later.
\nHere’s some pics.<\/p>\n

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07.04.04 \u00c2\u00bb Ink is complete!<\/p>\n

I’m done with the inking. Next I’ll give the inked
\nparts another coat of Future to seal the ink from the waterslide
\ndecals and also to give more gloss for applying the decals. Here’s
\na few more pics:<\/p>\n

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07.06.04 \u00c2\u00bb Decals<\/p>\n

I started adding the decals today. Here’s a pic of
\nsome of my progress. The other sides of the pods and shoulders are
\ndecaled as well as other misc. parts.<\/p>\n

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