gundam plastic model kit

completed my very first plastic model kit. just handbrushed since i cant afford an airbrush.

do i really need a title for this?

Okay! I have not done anything comics-oriented lately, but I would like to post an update to show you guys that I still care; hmmm… let’s see, aside from staring at the gundam kits that I am currently doing, I have also managed to try my hand with these famous graphic tablets. A friend of mine is planning to sell his graphic tablet and was nice enough (after a few threats) to let me try it out before I decide on purchasing the tablet. It was hard but I kind of like the possibilities of the thing. Here is what I have done so far. It took me about an hour just to do that!

An hour of solid work. This is basically the initial design of the super debil robot character for the super debil robot comics.

To keep you entertained, let me show you my before and after office workstation. Below is the “before my boss approved my new monitor request”

I put post-its around my monitor so that it would look like I’m talking to someone with yellow hair.

Messy table. You should see my boss’ table.

Aaaaaaand!

This is after my boss gave up with my whining.

That there is the tablet I’m talking about.

Blurred for security purposes. I don’t want you to know the secret to life. I wrote them on my post-its for me to remember.

A few weeks back, my brother bought me a cutting mat to help out with my gundam madness.

The mat is that green thing. Cool brother!

updates updates!

Nothing much has happened lately, aside from painting the gundam kit that I have, which is a pain in the @$$! I was able to do some quick character design. It's not much, but it's a start in going back to the drawing table. Check this to find out more about the comic book project that we are doing!

mad about robots

Most of my free time is spent between doing some vehicle designs for an 8 page one shot submission for a comic book and putting scratches on gundam model kits. I can’t show you the vehicle designs yet since it is still in its primary stages of being. Just trust me on this one, I can guarantee you that I am doing something for the book. Really, I am doing something. Moooving forward, I’ll show you what I can show you, which are the scratches I have made on the model kits. In plastic modeling world, there is this thing that we call as panel lines. They are made to imitate metal sheet meeting metal sheet in the real thing such as airplanes and giant robots. What modelers do is literally scratch the plastic to show where the meeting are supposed to happen. And it’s pretty darn hard. Below are some pictures I took before I scratched the lines on the thing and after all the madness.

See that guy in the middle? That is RX 78-2 ver1.5! He doesn’t have much panel lines so I put some on him! Some people would tell you to do it slow. What they really mean is to do it veeery slow. Because if you do it with just the regular slow, you would end up with crooked lines as you can see on the next picture.

I was supposed to ‘sketch’ some lines on the shoulder armor and leave it for a few days to see it with a fresh eye. That way, you would easily notice mistakes. But I got excited and scribed away! And ended up with crooked lines and not so identical panel lines on the armor.

Here he is after the madness.

A sneak peek on what I’ll be doing next. If I would still have the courage that is.

I will try and post updates on the pages I’m working on our next session.