This is the very first master grade Gundam that I have purchased way back, the RX-78 MK II. I think I’ve had it since it first came out so it’s been quite a while. (Un)fortunately, out of boredom I decided to experiment on how to put damage on Gundams. I did not read any tutorials, for some reason I feel that it will lessen my excitement and sense of accomplishment if my little experiment turned out well lol.
Note: This was done months ago and is still a work in progress.
Basically I want a Gundam that looks like it participated in countless wars. I want it dirty, damaged and look really beat up. For starters, I had to get rid of the clean, white color. I could use paint but it is freaking expensive so I used what any cheap guy would use — watercolor. Before you complain that water will wash it away. I will coat this with a clear coat. From my initial tests, the clear coat did not mess up the water color so I think it will work. I dissolved some black color in water and brushed the whole unit. I thought it was going well so I just started using other colors like brown, red and orange.
I got tired after a while so I decided to add more “effects”. I want “oil” seeping out from the vents so I ran black water color down. And no Gundam should come back from a war without scars, so I heated up a knife and nail and started slicing here and poking there. Not the best battle scars but it turned out OK. If you want to do something this, make sure you have good air circulation because the plastic gives off a really nasty smell. And I would assume it is toxic too.
You will notice that some of the holes have some brownish stuff on it. I assumed that if a mobile suit is fighting for a long time, rust would eventually start showing and again I think it turned out well so I will be using that more.
The picture above shows my attempt to put battle damage on the shield. It’s not as good as I have hoped and I would need to look at more pictures on how damaged shields look like.
For now we will stop at the Gundam’s mid-section and shield because I still need to do more work on the waist and legs. I saw some sand paper and I will use it to sand corners to give it a faded look. While scouring the web for weathering examples, I came across vegeta8259′s Youtube channel. Looks pretty cool and there are tons of Gunpla reviews.
That’s all for today, I hope I can get this done before the year ends. I still have 4 models waiting, Gundam Strike Freedom (not in the picture), Gundam Unicorn, Gundam Shin Musha, and my favorite Gundam Exia. That should keep me busy throughout 2012.
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That is Awesome Dae~han…I looks like it went through one hell of a battle!
It does look very nice ^_^
thanks you two. this is still work in progress, so im trying to figure out how to best wreck this gundam
Looking nice, but the scar on the shield could use more work, a beam saber scar would be much bigger than that and give the feeling cut by heat, yours still look rather physical than heat damage.
And i think you might has overdone your “dirt” part, you should focus on some areas instead, now the MS look like it just fell into a mud lake and came out. Even MSs in 08th’s setting still look cleaner than that
initially, i wanted the unit to look like as if it was left in a swamp and the revived after years of inactivity, then changed my mind to add battle damage. i will still try to high light the edges. will probably just use a paint brush since i dont have an airbrush.
Whoa! That’s so cool, like gundam series here. i hope the price is not that to much.
Btw.. that’s a good business if you want to design it.