Uncharted territory for me. Gundam kits come molded in colour so that you don't need to do any painting, however there are many builders who like to paint and I wanted to give it a try. Not owning an airbrush I am using Tamiya spray paints. First thing I did was construct a contraption to hold my pieces in place for spraying/drying. A simple cardboard box and some styrofoam and voila. (Voila is french for look at my carboard and styrofoam). Using chopsticks and skewers I was able to get everything to stay in place.
Some of these pieces will be two colours which meant I had to spray one colour on first, then mask it, then spray again. I opted to spray the light silver colour on first, followed by the black. There were a couple pieces that I sprayed too heavily which meant I had to sand down the paint and repaint it.
quite elaborate for your first time! good for you. i started small and just did the sword for my red astray when i was starting out but you jumped right in! nice result too.
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