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Page 02 » Painting
the PGM Cloud 09
10.09.03 » Paint Time
All the sanding and scratchbuilding
is done so it is time to paint! The first color
in my plan is the sandy yellow color. I base my
color-painting order on what would be easier to
mask off later. The yellow goes into a lot of
holes that can be masked by Stycky-Tack. The yellow
is actually not as saturated as it looks here
in the pics. It is duller in real life.
The first picture is all the parts
that needed yellow paint. These parts are placed
onto bamboo skewers so I don't finger up the paint
job..
These are the after shots. The yellow
will be masked off and the parts will be painted
with their other colors.
10.09.03 » Paint Colors
I'll be using many colors to achieve
the look I'm going for in the lineart. Here's
a breakdown of my pallet so far. All the paints
marked with an asterick (*) are custom mixed,
the rest are straight from the jar. »
- Medium Metal Gray* (internals,
weapons, exposed metal)
- Bronze* (boosters, cables)
- Gunmetal* (boosters,
weapons, internals)
- White (clouds, armor,
highlights)
- Light Blue* (cloud base
1)
- Light-Med Blue* (cloud
base 2)
- Red-Orange* (crotch,
door plates, boosters)
- Yellow-Orange* (crotch
emblem)
- Sand-Yellow* (minus
molds, control boxes, highlights)
- Chrome Silver (lenses,
minus molds, rivets, buckles)
- Clear Red (lenses)
- Black (panel lines)
- Green-Grey* (cloth parachute
"bag" and straps)
- Blue-Grey* (Guns)
All those colors plus several will
have black mixed with them in small amounts for
post shading. In all, I'll have 21 colors.
All of my paints are Tamiya Acrylic.
To thin them for airbrush use, I use 91% isopropyl
rubbing alcohol. How much? As much as I need.
I never measure my paints and thinner exactly.
I just eyeball it. If it's too thin, I'll need
to spray more layers. To thick? Add more thinner.
Simple as that. I try to thin to the consistency
of milk.
10.10.03 » Red-Orange
Tonight I got to paint the red-orange
parts. There are only a few parts that will need
that color. The door and crotch emblem and the
boosters. For the boosters, I first sprayed down
a coat of my sand color. Then around the edges
(as seen in the pic) I sprayed the red orange
for a faded effect. (I remember the days when
I used to think booster colors were unnecessary.)
Next up will be the booster external
colors.
10.10.03 » Painting
the Boosters
The booster and gun barrel painting
is done. Here is a step-by-step of how I did the
boosters.
- Painted insides of boosters
light yellow
- Painted red-orange around
edges of boosters
- Placed sticky-tack inside
of boosters to mask them
- Sprayed boosters with
a mixture of bronze and copper
- Sprayed mixture of Gunmetal
and Silver around middles of boosters leaving
slight bit of bronze mixture showing.
- Sprayed a wash of Alcohol,
Tamiya Clear, and Black as a post shade around
edges of boosters
- Removed sticky-tack
That's about it. I'll ink a few
panel lines and the inside tubes for the boosters
later when I am at the inking stage.
Here are some images in order of
the steps above. »
10.11.03 » Whites
and Lens
Next up on my paint list was the
first of the white parts. I split the whites into
two sections depending on what is easy to mask
now and what is easy to mask later. For example,
the forhead sensor and the knee fronts will be
much easier after the blue is painted.
The forst pic is the parts with
the sand color masked off either with sticky tack
or Tamiya masking tape. The second is the whate
painted parts with the masking materials removed.
The next pics show a method for
painting GM lenses I am experimenting with. I
am painting the inside silver like I normally
would, but instead of painting the clear window
with clear red, I painted the inside part with
the clear red (inked too). I am hoping that this
will look good while keeping the clear red from
gatting scratched.
Lastly is a shot of all the parts
needing my gray color that I'm using for internals.
Some of these parts still need masked off such
as the fuel tanks and feet boosters.
10.12.03 » Internals
and External Metal Gray
Mix Tamiya Neutral Gray, White,
a touch of Blue and some Metallic Gray and you
have the internals color for the Cloud 09. As
you can see, I masked off some parts like the
stripe around the fuel pods and the minus molds
on the back pack.
10.13.03 » Cloudy
Gun
First off I glued the painted control
boxes to their skirt plates and legs. They were
easier to paint first and mask later than to glue
them first, then mask them.
Secondly... I started the cloud
camo!!! Doing the camo/special masking is always
my favorite part. Especially when I get to see
the results of a first try effort and they look
good!
First I painted the metallic gray
and then I post-shaded it. The reasom for the
speckles on the handle is not due to lumpy paint,
but to light hitting the metal speckles. Next
I masked off the gray and sprayed down the gray-blue.
Then I sprayed my clouds on. I used white + clear
+ alcohol for the clouds. The clear white made
the fadedness of the clouds easier.
There's more detail than shown in
this pic, but I need better lighting to show it
off. Trust me, it looks great!
10.14.03 » Guns in
the Sky
Okay... 20 minutes to spare tonight,
so I painted the other guns clouds. Same deal
as above. I may go back and paint the round part
on the back the same gunmetal as the barrel though.
Maybe.
Also, I took a pic of what I use
instead of foil stickers for my gun lenses. Basically,
it's a part of a package. I think for lightbulbs.
You can use action figure plastic or whatever.
I sprayed it with chrome silver, then clear red.
(or green, yellow, orange, bule, whatever) I cut
them to the shape I need and glue them into place.
Perfect for the little lens on the back of a Gundam
or GM head and the lenses on the guns.
10.17.03 » Calm Before
The Storm
Well, I haven't updated in a few
days because I really didn't have too much to
show. Here's what I have as of today however...
I made the straps for the parachute
as well. For the "in flight" straps
(seen on the skewers) I used very thin styrene
and bended it to look folded with hot water. The
straps taped to the screws are for if I have the
kit standing up. I wouldn't want the straps blowing
out so I used sliced up video tape and painted
it the same gray-green color. These straps will
flow downward nicely. Gravity-style.
You can also see my work area. Much
neater than some of the other work areas I've
seen. I never could work in a messy area. You
can see the jars and the 2 blues I will be using
for the sky-camo. Mmmm... Cherry Coke.
I painted the darker of the blue
parts only to find that the blue dried darker
than I had anticipated. So I lightened it up and
repainted them. Here is a shot of the chest and
a part of the backpack with the darker blue. The
white was painted first, then masked off before
applying the blue.
Next you can see some of the masked
lighter blue parts. The crotch-plate shows both
the darker and lighter blues. Notice that they
are not too drastic as far as dark/light goes.
This is what I wanted from the start and you can
see that on the lineart.
Also, you can notice the color of
the sand-yellow on the foot. Almost the same color
as the Tamiya tape. The white circle on the head
has since been touched up around the edges.
Finally, here is a shot of all the
dark and light blue parts. You can see that this
was taken before I got a chance to remove all
the masking tape.
Next up will be putting some of
the parts together so that I can do the clouds.
I don't want to paint each cloud piece separately
because it'll look odd/unnatural when put together.
10.18.03 » Cloud City
The clouds are painted and the masking
is removed. Next up is a few misc. parts that
couldn't be painted until this was done. Maybe
10 parts total. Here's some pics.
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