Pics that don't suck - aka Jagd Doga - Quess part2

Tried to make pictures that don't totally suck and the Jagd Doga was the guinea pig. The lighting still leaves a lot to be desired but I have a pretty good idea how to make things better next time.






http://www.flickr.com/photos/40088241@N03/sets/72157623416584173/

*sold*

Quess's Jagd Doga finished

The last finishing touches are added to the Jagd Doga, like decals and the shield details and sumi-ire.

The finished Jagd Doga:



Turned out pretty good I think. But I need to work on my photographing skills.

Quess Air Jagd Doga progress

Primed some of the parts and started airbrushing. I tried extracting primer from the can and airbrushing it for a more economic use, as described in this tutorial: http://www.ghostofzeon.com/diy/paintxtract/xtract.html . The extracting worked great, but the airbrushing only so-so. The extracted primer seems to dry to fast for me, leaving a rough surface when airbrushing it. So it needed sanding again. Not sure if I will do this again.

For the silver parts i used AlcladII Aluminum.
Looks really nice and smooth.


The red parts are painted with a red-pink mix and a coat of clear red over that.


Also I orderd a bunch of waterslide decals from http://www.samueldecal.com/ in 1/144 scale as the stickers that come with the HGUC kits are unusable. The website is superslow loading, but it has a nice selection and isn't too expensive. I orderd a bunch of them, so I can put some little warning decals on the Jagd Dogas. Also orderd some for the Nu, Re-GZ and the upcoming Sazabi.

Jagd Doga Quess Progress

I started building Quess's Jagd Doga. Snap fitted it, then lots of sanding and putty.



The parts after washing them in soap water:

HGUC Char's Counter Attack Launch!

The CCA HGUC kits finally arrived. Got the two Jagd Dogas (Quess and Gyunei) and the Nu Gundam. The Alpha-Azieru mobile armor in 1/400 scale from the Gundam Collection line is still in the mail. HLJ has a sale on the Azieru, selling it for around 10Euro/USD15! The HGUC Sazabi will be released later this month, which I will order then together with the HGUC RE-GZ. CCA gallore!