I got very little done last night 'cause I only had a couple hours and I wasn’t in a hurry, but I got the arms assembled! I have to prime them soon and also figure out what color I’m painting the inner frame, traditionally I’ve liked a mix of bronze and black lacquer
Oooo, neato. Be sure to keep us up to date with the process. Bronze and black seems like a good, neutral color base. :3
Thanks! Yeah it’s a really cool look, gunpla tennnnds to like painting the parts before assembly unless you’re gluing them into a pose and it’s a good futuristic gunmetal. I’m trying to decide if it’ll look better as the English ships’ buff-and-black, or if I wanna base it on a Royal Naval uniform. That’s also very much the “Gundam protagonist suit” color scheme though and I don’t know if I wanna be that obvious with it
Neat! Good luck with the kitbashing. A little curious about the game you mentioned because that seems like such an extreme mix of genres, is it “everyone are historical napoleonic troops except for a few mechs” or “regular napoleonic wargame but all the models are mechs”?
So! At the moment it’s just Mobile Suit Skirmish counting the HG kits (~5", usually) as 1/56 instead of 1/144, and adding rules for sailing ships and better rules for infantry. I need to do a bunch of balancing and tweaking though. But! Actually building something I’m excited about gets me in the state of mind to do that and to write the accompanying story, and all the research both those things entail
Nice what’s it gonna be?
A hopefully ok-looking kitbash of what’s there, a Core Gundam, and a Portanova Space Type for my Napoleonic mech game
Oh nice, kit bashing sounds fun. Admittedly I don’t know anything about Gundam and other mech franchises apart from watching my friends build them while I build my own models.
They’re fun, and really easy to put together if you’re used to Games Workshop’s kits! Warhammer youtube seems to have “discovered” it lately, it’s pretty interesting to watch people new to its applications of techniques but very experienced with the techniques theirselves, as someone who made the opposite jump from gunpla to Warhammer
