Flipmeister-Gunpla

G-system MSA 007 NERO

2012-02-02T11:40:00.000-08:00

Test for colorscheme Gerbera Tetra

2012-01-21T09:37:00.000-08:00

Wanna try something new.. this time i'm gonna choosed for a "cammo pattern" paintjob

I has to be a little bit orginal and a pattern that I haven't seen before on gundam is the hex pattern.

So i search the internet for a good image of the pattern.

After i found a good image I printed it on glossy photopaper. Now a got a template! Why photopaper? b'cause the masking tape will be easier to remove.

To make a test spray,I used a plastic spoon. Primed it, then did a glossy black coat and after that I gave it a chrome coat. Applied a random hex pattern. Also did some shading in this stage (not on pics)

Sprayed the clear coat! In my chase blue!

Remove the masking tape and almost done. Thinking to apply another clearblue coat on the edges of the pattern so it will nicely fade in /out

LED Thruster!

2012-01-20T14:56:00.000-08:00

Got some new light up thruster for my Gerbera Tetra!

Also modified the big thruster with a led

Test fitting ! Gerbera Tetras Armor

2012-01-07T07:25:00.000-08:00

Innerframe Gerbera Tetra 1/60

2012-01-05T12:54:00.000-08:00

Just some pics!

Mecha Contest 2012 Entry

2011-12-31T17:58:00.000-08:00

Work has begun!!

First the big clean up!!

1/24 scale STRIKE GUNDAM Head & Cockpit resinkit

2011-12-18T14:13:00.000-08:00

1/24 Sazabi super desktopmodel completed!

2011-09-08T07:26:00.000-07:00

Sazabi WIP 12

2011-09-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

The LED's in the cockpit and eye were pretty easy to connect but have to connect the other two LED in the "helmet" and they gave me real hard time because of the tight space between te (moving)parts

Some pics

Sazabi WIP 11

2011-09-07T09:04:00.000-07:00

After alot of masking it's time to paint the inside of the head.I wanted the panels in a two-tone color(black and grey). Since the primer was allready great i thought let's leave it that way.So I only have to paint the blacklines(not masked)

Halfway there, masked all the grey panals

Sprayed the whole head(helmet) red (tamiya X-7),and masked it.

Okay...I wasn't very happy with the end result. The grey was way to light and didn't matched the rest of the colors.So I choosed a much darker grey and did it all over.

This is how it turns out.Did some minor shading in the panels.

Sazabi WIP 10

2011-09-05T16:53:00.000-07:00

Now it's time work on Sazabi's head,not too many parts but it's stuffed with electronics.So again I hope it will al fit.

Installed the two servo-moters,the only thing I'll have to do is connect the 4 LED's and wire everything.

Some details:

Sazabi WIP9

2011-09-05T16:46:00.000-07:00

Finished the base finally I can do a real test run!

And everything works!

Sazabi WIP 8

2011-08-30T13:34:00.000-07:00

Airbrush...handpaint...airbrush... topcoat.....airbrush...handpaint...and airbruhzzz .....zzzzz zzzz

Okay here some piczz..zzzz

Now the really hard part almost finished painting all the parts of the base. It's time to wire this fellow..
Studied the electric diagram for a while and it looks pretty simple because every thing is numbered and colored.So it shouldn't be that difficult.The thing that I'm most concerned about is how to fit all the wires in the model.

Okay let get started...got myself a new soldering iron for this model.

(Btw I have never build a gundammodel with so many electric parts so finger crossed)

At this moment I was really worried if it will fit together...

When soldering i proteced the model with aluminiumfoil. Just in case...

After one hour of soldering I finally got it ready

And yes it fits!!!...but will it work..can't answer that yet....

And some details!

Sazabi WIP 7

2011-08-30T13:13:00.000-07:00

When airbrushing I tried a technique I'd never used before. The plan was for a even color,but soon I realize that it wouldn't work out for this beast... So I decided to post-shaded/pre-shaded (tried both) all the parts. And i think it turns out pretty good (for my standards)

Also top-coated and did all the decals on the parts

Sazabi WIP 6

2011-08-30T13:02:00.000-07:00

Finally i got to the painting part finished the base and i'm pretty happy how it turns out

Here some pics...

Now i can't start building!!!!

More to come....

Sazabi WIP 5

2011-08-30T12:52:00.000-07:00

Still busy with the pistons.

Secured the balljoints with some putty (A). The balljoints of the cilinder wouldn't fit properly,so a glued a tiny bit of stryrene on it.(B)

After some sanding got it fixed!(A)

And some putty (A) again to lock it up...

Finished!and ready for priming....

Sazabi WIP 4

2011-08-24T04:24:00.000-07:00

This kit comes with serval metal parts inculding some pistons for the neck.

Straight out of the box the parts aren't very shiny (B) as the should be (A).

But i learned a way to "polish" steal parts (A) (check the YT channel of sleepylafiel )

Just take some really fine sandpaper and a eletric drill

Also did the other part

Some clean up and it looks much better!

Sazabi WIP 3

2011-08-24T03:56:00.000-07:00

When building i discoverd a wrong mould. The parts should be symmetric

So i had to mod it ! And made a cut (red line)

After cutting the piece in half and some sanding,I replaced the removed resin with some styrene(A).To make it the same size again. Reinforced it with a brass rod (B)

Glued it in place.Again some sanding and done!

Sazabi WIP

2011-08-24T03:19:00.000-07:00

Time to fit the electric servo motors

The first motor is for opening the chest (blue) and the panels on the both sides,by moving back and forward. This motor only work in combination with the moving sensor (so won't work manually)

The second servo-motor (right on top of the first one) is for turning the hed left and right. There's one pin (A) that move sideways,the center of the neckjoint (B) lies behind the servo itself. The blue part connect both pins.

Everything seems perfect alligned

So i secured the two servo-motors with it's "neckbase" locked up by pinning the sides.

Next small problem the right side panel (pic) didn't fit properly (red arrows) because of the servomotor.There was only one way to install the motor so i couldn't move it either.

Found out i had to cut just a little piece off the servo to make the panel fit. Nothing special

WIP Sazabi (build 1)

2011-08-23T09:03:00.000-07:00

Started to build and not all parts fit right and had to make some adjustments

for example:

The blue surrounded part would fit because it was to small, so to fit i had to cut it in half (A)

To extend the part i used some styrene (B) and reinforced it with some putty (A) on top of that i will glue another styrene plate

perfect fit...only some sanding left to do

Another small fit problem but very easy to solve!

This parts would't allign with it's base (red lines)

But found the source of the problem! Just had to sand and cut some resin almost to easy!

There's a small gap left but nothing to worrie about because most of this panel will be covered up by another panel.

WIP Sazabi (clean up)

2011-08-23T08:36:00.000-07:00

Washed all the resin parts

WIP MS 06R 1A ZAKU Armor

2011-08-14T12:41:00.000-07:00

Just re-painted the shield and some other parts

G-systems Sazabi 1/24 Resin WIP

2011-08-11T13:55:00.000-07:00

Test fitted the main parts of my SAZABI resinkit

WIP MS 06R 1A ZAKU shield

2011-08-08T11:34:00.000-07:00

Innerframe 2.0 Zaku fully painted

2011-08-07T13:42:00.000-07:00

Perfect Grade Strike Freedom completed

2011-08-04T10:27:00.000-07:00

WIP Perfect Grade ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam (priming)

2011-03-12T14:00:00.000-08:00

Because i didn't liked the original ugly goldish color of the innerframe i decided to re-paint the whole
frame.So i prepared everything for primer

All the moving parts,pegs and connections were masked.If they weren't masked the layers of primer and paint could clog up the joints and moving parts.Or worse the parts won't fit together.

Done with priming!And ready to paint!

WIP Perfect Grade ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam (handpainting)

2011-03-12T13:41:00.000-08:00

The innerframe of the Strike Freedom does have three different kinds of "gold". I'm gonna add some detail on the most shiny parts of the frame. The rest of the innerframe will be painted gold.

I'm only using some black to fill some panels on the parts.

WIP Perfect Grade ZGMF-X20A Strike Freedom Gundam (custom painted stand)

2010-12-22T08:15:00.000-08:00

My new project wil be de Perfect Grade SFG. It's been a while since I worked on a gundamkit so my head is full of ideas.
One of them is a custom painted stand in a white & gold colorscheme. Because I don't have the kit yet, I decided to paint my old stand (PG Strike Aile) because it's the same,besides te top.

Here's the finished result:

Closer look:

In my kind of view the new PG SFG is a little bit 'dull'. The innerframe aswell as the armor has less detail in it compares to the previous perfect grades.

So that brings me to another idea, to make some small mods on the kit.Such as new panellines and some armor modifications.

This is what i have in mind for panellines

For the armor-mods i will use styrene, it's the first time i'm working with this material so fingers crossed!

WIP Perfect Grade OO raiser (innerframe)

2010-12-09T13:50:00.000-08:00

One of my projects i've been busy with is the Perfect grade OO raiser

I've painted the whole innerframe darkmetallic

some pictures:

Flipmeisters Introduction

2010-12-09T13:41:00.000-08:00

Let's introduce myself!
I'm just an average guy who likes to build models especially gundammodels.It all started years ago with simple kits like airplanes and cars,but when I got older the interest faded away. Untill I bumped into a HG gundamkit at a local toystore,never heard about gundam/mobile suits.But in my eyes it looked like a cool robot! And reminded me of the Transfomers,Macron one stuff like that.So I bought the kit without knowing
the japanese TV-series.From then I was hooked on building gundammodels.

In the beginning my gundam collection didn't grow that fast because in my country the are hard to get. My local shop was miles away.Never thought about getting them online.After some searchwork on the net I found a reliable Dutch internetsite for ordering gundams.

The last years my collection ( from SD to HG or from MG to PG) really expanded and so my buildingskills. First I only assembled the kit straight out of the box. But nowadays I give all the new kits a full paintjob.

And on this blog I just wanna show some of my stuff and some Work In Progress.