Thank you! Ive only done little touch ups with paint before this kit and decided as I went to go full hog on learning a shitload of techniques at once. I am like…so hyped my fucking aroind and finding out on several fronts all worked out. This came out exactly how I envisioned for the most part. Ive always beem good at drawing but painting has always been a bit of a weak point as well as color. So I am fucking HYPED about the results. I was pretty bad at painting before the desire to do this model justice came to me and I learned like…so much much doing this. A straight build of the kit with panel lining looks like this:

I repainted all the white bits with a much darker off white (i mixed all of the colors myself for the whole thing), did the inner frsme with a mix of metallic silver, black, brown and green, its mostly covered but you can see it poking through. That fucking orange was soooo high vis. That took 2 goes. My first ine was too many layers to figure out how to get the shade just right and imply its been in a jungle cause the show its from tskes place in a jungle. Gundam armor doesn’t rust which i took into account and tried to make things look more like dust that got rained on, dried, rained on and dried again and used super thinned out brown and grey for that as well as dry brushing green and brown mixes for the smears armor would get walking through a thicc canopy. And cause theyre 60 feet tall I made very sure the top was a LOT cleaner than the bottom. The battle damage is drilled into the armor and then colored in for full depth. I went all out on this one.

Next build is really nice looking on its own and I wont be fucking with it nearly as much, but ive gotten to enjoy older models cause there is so much to improve.