{"id":3311,"date":"2010-02-28T17:34:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T22:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2010-03-06T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T18:50:35","slug":"completed-%c2%bb-mg-victory-gundam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/completed-%c2%bb-mg-victory-gundam\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed \u00c2\u00bb MG Victory Gundam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Coming full-circle from my 1994 ‘false start’ is the new Master Grade Victory Gundam. My first ever Gundam model kit was the 1\/144 V-Dash built soon after graduation from the Art Institute in 1994 and purchased mail-order from someplace called the “JAM Group”. About 7-8 years later I picked up where I left off and started building again… pretty much non-stop.<\/p>\n

Because of my affinity for this design, this is one of the rare cases where I’ve actually painted something the colors it’s supposed to be. Well, mostly. I based this scheme off of the Windfall illustration ‘Mobile Suit [Second V]<\/strong>‘ as seen below.<\/p>\n

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Studio Windfall Illustration circa 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n

The internals were painted with Mr. Color Super Metals and Alclad II Lacquers. The ‘gunmetal’ color is Mr. Color 50% Semi-Gloss Black<\/em> + 50% Super Stainless<\/em> (super metallic paint-line) and the lighter warm metal is Mr. Color Super Stainless<\/em> first, then a thin layer of Alclad II Pale Burnt Metal<\/em> on top of that. The armor was painted with Tamiya Acrylics. I muted most of the colors except yellow to get that Ver. Ka color look.<\/p>\n

This was a very quick and easy kit to finish. First off, there was no seam-lines. Just sprue-nubs and the usual faint mold flash lines. Cutting took a day and a half, skewering the MANY parts and priming took another day and painting took only a day as well. I was very impressed with the internals and mechanical construction. Decals were the official Bandai waterslide release and took about 4 hours to apply.<\/p>\n

\"mgx41\"<\/a>This is the first of 4 MGs in my personal MGX4 challenge where I want to attempt to finish at least 4 modern MG kits (kits from the past 2-3 years) before the end of April. I started this challenge on February 15th, 2010. The other three are the MG GN-X, Astray Blue Frame 2nd Revise, and Chars Zaku 2.0. So far so good!<\/p>\n\n\t\t