This HG Efreet was provided to me by Joel from The Hangar Bay – over 3 years ago! Apologies for taking so long to get to this build, but upon finishing it I don’t think I would have had the skills to do it properly back then. Even now actually, since there is some crazy masking needed to get it completely colour accurate and I’m not 100% happy with the final product.
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The kit has a few seamlines:
- Forearms- for these I painted the internals first, masked it and inserted it into the forearms parts, sealed the seam and then painted the light blue.
- Back of the calves, though the majority is stepped and the only part that needs to be fixed is on the white trim
- Shotgun
Painting
This kit has quite a decent sized sticker sheet. The yellow details on the crotch, feet and backpack all need to be painted yellow, as does the black and light blue part on the crotch, and finally the white trim on the back on the calves. I painted the yellow parts first, then used the stickers for masking, and then painted the other colours.
Whilst the pauldrons are colour separated, the blue parts sandwich over the white, leaving a seam line, so I ended up sealing the whole part first, painting the white and masking it off and then painting the blue.
The yellow on the backpack is different because I painted the other parts on separate occasions :S
Blue – Mr Color GX Susie Blue + Purple base coat. White added for highlights, then original colour used to postshade/blend
Light Blue – Mr Color Azure Blue base coat, white added for highlights
White – Mr Color 306 Grey FS Base coat, followed by Mr Color GX Cool White for highlight
Yellow – White primer, followed by Mr Color Orange preshade, then light coat of Mr Color Orange Yellow + Orange
Black – Mr Color GX Ueno Black base coat, followed by Mr Color Phantom Grey highlight
Backpack Grey – Mr Color Phantom Grey base coat, Mr Color black used to postshade
Frame (knees) – E7 Dark Gunmetal
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