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It took a while but here it is, Master Grade Gundam Barbatos! Only my second master grade and I decided to go out of my way and hand paint all of it. From the frame to the armor and weapons and even picking up the p-bandai expansion set and painting some of that too (a set I do plan to finish and post about eventually). And it was a lot! A little overwhelming at times and definitely is not something I'll do regularly at this scale but was so worth it in the end.

It has only been a couple of years since I started this hobby and being able to get this kind of finish was a bit of a dream for me then. There's still room for improvement and part of that will come with more experience, but seeing what a difference just a year of painting kits can make has me genuinely excited to keep going.

Now how about the actual kit though...

The bare frame is probably my favorite part of the kit and also is where most of the actual build is. Even unpainted it's so nice to look at and pose, it is such a treat to build up what's practically the skeleton of an action figure. Obviously though painting it takes it to a whole other level, as I did here with metallic paints from Mr. Hobby Aqueous and Tamiya. It's just a real joy seeing all the wires and pistons contrasted with the frame, especially on the backside. I was almost ready to leave it as is without the armor it's so good, but it is Gundam Barbatos and not just a Gundam frame so we continue with…

The armor! Nothing too different from the original gundam colors though. Some slightly altered base colors here, a few off-white panels there, some messy panel lines because I didn't rescribe the lines partially out of laziness, but overall I'm very happy with how it came out. Probably the most accidentally impressive thing to me was all of the white being so smooth, minus a couple of spots. Even now looking at the kit in my hand I don't entirely know how I did that with a brush. I will always recommend the Mr. Hobby Aqueous paints in general but definitely for hand painting specifically. It has the benefits of being very easy to work with like water based acrylics and being more durable than those too. But let's not forget about...

The weapons! Only a bit more interesting here, as they're mostly metallic, using all of the same colors as the frame as well as some new ones. The body of the smoothbore gun is, like the other colors, a slight deviation from the color guide. At first I wasn't sure if the copper (Tamiya's XF-28 Dark Copper) on the sword edge was going to be too much, thinking maybe I should've used a silver like the pile bunker on the mace, but I think it works well and helps the sword stand out from the rest of the loadout.

After all that the only thing missing is a top coat, which I haven't done yet because summer weather in NC can be real wet. So for now it'll have to go without one. But I'm not upset about it, other than the three primary colors being glossy it's like it doesn't even need one and looks great as is so I may skip it entirely. We'll see, next time though I'm go back to doing a few high grades starting with some more G-Witch p-bandai kits! Hope you enjoy! ✌🏼

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okay so the SD goose didn't take very long at all. once I started I couldn't stop. he's very cute; I love the clear parts and he even has a removable face plate! definitely gonna be a target for gold paint when I get around to trying that

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finally finished the bone. upper left arm connector is a little loose so I gotta be careful when moving things around. but he's very fun, super cool pirate robot 🤖

also, my mom gave me a lil jewel thing, so I finished Dom's eye

next project will be a little guy as a breather from rg

all hail the golden goose!!

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some fun with grandpa mg 3.0

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yuri beams ur labru

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HARO KILL ATTACK

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stressed dog type side-eye

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finished rg crossbone, ft my cat nutmeg 🦁

rg mk2 for scale. he looks like a hulking creature next to this little guy!

I love the cloak; it's very slightly poseable and the sculpt does make it look like it's moving. I haven't finished his kit yet; very excited to see the cutlass and the pistol.

at first I didn't really like crossbone; I thought he was too silly, too much. but now I realize: exactly! he's a fking pirate Gundam! hell yeah!!!

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He's so normal, guys. I promise. He's sooooo normal. Normalest guy ever. (Lying)

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bumping that

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IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOME OF YOU ARE UNAWARE OF MY SOULMATE

BEHOLD!!!!

THIS IS MOO DENG HER NAME MEANS BOUNCING PORK SHES A BABY PYGMY HIPPO AT A THAI ZOO AND SHE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT

GIVE HER LOVE

(pics courtesy of her trainers. thank you @yellowwwcrayon for introducing her to me)

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thank you chappell

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#Moo Deng is literally the cutest menace I have ever seen

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Wet Beast Rotation

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me as a gundam pilot after being asked to "serve" for my "cunt-ry"????