Painted: HGUC Geara Zulu (Angelo Sauper use)

Whew! Finally done painting this kit! It has been a long 3 weeks, I had to find time every now and then to finish this up.


Overall I was pleased with the results. My painting still needs a lot of work but just happy with the colors and how it turned out. The pictures don't do it justice and looks much better in person.

Heres a clip for a short review

Detailing:

Initially used the stickers that came with it to partially mask the sleeves and the white lining. Handpainted the rest that wasn't covered by masking.

So what i basically did for the emblem and sleeves and other supposedly white lining was:

1. Black base
2. Chrome silver
3. Mask using the stickers
4. Black gloss
5. Handpainted the rest for touchups and detailing hard to reach parts

 

 Here's a 360 view of the Geara Zulu.

  

Colors Used: 

All Acrylics

Tamiya Gloss Black  - Base coat

Tamiya Chrome Silver - 2nd coat

Tamiya Clear Blue + Clear Red (1:2) - Pink/Red/Purple tone

Tamiya Clear Blue + Clear Red (5:2) - Indigo tone

Tamiya Clear Yellow - on golden parts

Mr. Hobby Metallic Black - Backpack & Gun

Thanks for checking this out guys. Hope I didn't bore you. 

Feel free to leave comments and suggestions.

Finished: HGUC Geara Doga (Custom Full Frontal)

I decided to paint my Geara Doga and make my own version of a Full Frontal Custom. It was said that Full Frontal breached Anaheim Electronics on this MS to steal the Sinanju Stein. So i really imagined what Full Frontal's Geara Doga would be like.

There are some scratches already on the paintjob, the reason is it has been on my shelf for a couple of weeks now and.. though the articulation and the moving parts are great, its just more reason for parts to scratch.

I used all Tamiya acrylics on this one.

• Gloss Black 
• Chrome Silver
• Clear Orange (on what used to be Dark Green parts) and then Clear Red after
• Clear Red (on what used to be Light Green parts)

 Articulations:

 I'll add some articulated poses since i wasn't able to post on my previous one.

 Believe it or not you'll only be able to move the arms sideways this high. This is only due to the armor design.

Did you see what i did there? You can actually rotate the shoulder armor and be able to raise it a bit higher.

The shoulders can really swivel front and back with a lot of range. Impressed!

Head can tilt up this far. It is double jointed so it can chicken head a bit. Plus the mono-eye can be moved as well.

 Also impressed how far it can do the splits, just a shame that the ankle armor restricts so much range of movement on the feet even though its double jointed.

 And here's some more pics just to round it off.

This was my 2nd painted kit and did have a lot of bloopers here and there, but pretty much happy with the results for a novice. :)

Please feel free to leave comments and suggestions.

Review: HGUC 1/144 Geara Doga

Just wanted to post this kit that I finished around a month ago.

This is a grunt unit from Char's Counterattack, and can be seen in the squad led by Rezin Schnyder. Though i don't have the blue version of this kit which was customized for Rezin (I didn't see much difference except for the rifle).

It came with the sticker for the Neo-Zeon emblem on the shield and a red dot for the Mono-Eye, which i didn't bother using.

The articulations are pretty good though i apologize i wasn't able to display much of it.

• Head - double jointed and can "chicken head" a bit
• Shoulders - can swivel back and forth , rotate 360, the shoulder armors are also pegged into an inner shoulder ball so they are independent and move around much. 
• Elbows - single jointed but allow plenty range of movement
• Torso - just on a peg so just 360 rotation
• Skirts - Front can move up and down and i think can be cut in the middle so they can move independently. Side skirts are on a peg and can move up and down.
• Hip Joint - is the new design like in the 00 HGs, it can swivel from side to side thus allowing plenty range of movement.
• Knees - surprisingly can bend a lot but just hindered by the design of the armor.
• Ankles - on a double joint and can move back and forth a bit and rotate. Again movements are just hindered by the armor design.

Thoughts

• Articulations - Great for a HG, plenty of movable stuff.
• Colors - Awesome, Simple, yet very strong appeal
• Accesories - Great , Rifle, Shield and theres like missiles that can snap on the shield, (i'll show in the finished build a bit later) and beam axe, blade with handle. good amount accessories for the price.
• Price - SRP 1800 yen - i think you can get this much cheaper in other stores with discounts. But it should be just right on the spot with the new engineering that comes along with the recent HGs. Totally worth it.

Overall the kit is worth getting if you are a CC fan, It actually looks great of of the box. Surprising for a grunt unit.



Let me know if there are clarifications, comments and suggestions. Will try to update this with other poses if anyone needs.