MG Strike Freedom: WIP Part 2

Very slow progress on this kit.  Been almost a month since I opened the box and started cutting stuff up, and I haven’t even painted (well airbrushed) anything yet.   But this weekend I actually managed to get the wings assembled at least.

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As per my lineart, the wing internals will be gold still.  I used Tamiya Gold spray, since I’m lazy, and I don’t think acryllic gold looks as nice when airbrushed on.

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Gold part before and after spraying with Tamiya Gold

The ‘gold’ parts that come with the normal MG Strike Freedom are a kinda mustardy colour.  Not nice to look at.  If you’re not planning to paint your Strike Freedom, I recommend at least spraying these parts gold, as it’s pretty easy and impossible to screw up.  Not to mention you’ll get a nice finish which is on par with the Full Burst Mode version.

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These wings are the bane of any modeller I swear.  7 seams to clean on each wing, and there’s 4 of them.  All the gluing, sanding and puttying took about 5 hours alone.  One of the wings ended up having a dodgy build and doesn’t open as well as the other one.

I’ll paint these later, but I’ll need to mask off the gold parts first.

30/08/2009 Update:

White parts painted.  This took a whopping 5 hours, 1 for the black coat and then 2 for each of the white+navy blue and white highlight layer.  Also as usual, I lost a part, one of the rear leg vents.

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I also started masking the wings.   Using Tamiya masking tape as well as blue tack for this.  It’s an extremely slow process.

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4 Comments

  1. HJ

    Hi, was wondering how you modded the beam riffles for seperate painting.
    I am now working on this kit. and which paint did u use?

  2. YJ

    @HJ
    I used Gunze Mr Hobby water based paints.

    As for the beam rifles, nothing special, I just masked the white part off then painted the blue highlights.

  3. xianxun

    Hello may i ask how you spray paint it?also how thick should the paint be?will the paint eat into the plastic?you use can spray or airbrush?

  4. YJ

    @xianxun
    1) I use an airbrush.

    2) Depends on whether you hand paint or airbrush, but generally, the consistency of milk is what you’re looking for.

    3) Hobby-type paints usually will not eat (destroy) plastic.

    4) Airbrush.

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