BTB Unicorn (HG) 1 : 144

[Phoon]

All I could utter that snapfitting a kit ain't an easy process during this project. A lot of modellers could be argue that how difficult it would be? Just cutout from sprue and snap it together?? What skill does we need?? And some even argue that snapfitted kit ain't in modelling dictionary which I always disagree with it.

Yeah, some of us couldn't agree no more but if you were produce a decent model kit with limitation of tools? No epoxy putty, no sanding process allow and no airbrush and color finishing..........and how you would deal with nib marks or worse case scenario in covering seamlines?? I bet that some of the modeller would draw back their statements! ;D

Even nowadays, overseas gunpla magazine still exercising snapfit tutorial! It's all about basic foundation skill and knowledge that we not ought to forget. To produce a good kit comes from basic exercise, ain't you agree with that? LOL!!!! ;D ;D ;D

Well I think I had enough babbling here. Conclusion : Snapfitting is fun and is highly recommended to new enthusiastic hobbyist to start with. Have fun guys!

[beckylaw]

I think i'm the one with 'traditional' thought, that snapfit kits not equal to completed kits. I just can't accept seam lines

Well, good news for the recent kits and mold, Bandai cleverly hide those seam lines, or even make them into panel lines.

As for older kits, really need extra effort to cover those irritating seam lines, without putty n painting, really hard to achieve seamline-less kits.

This is only my personal point of view, actually its hard to make a nice snapfit kits with minimum "cosmetic" work. Good work on the unicorn, but is it the lighting or there's some oversand marks on the waist n backpack???

[Phoon]

It's the light reflecting my drybrush in silver paint. It's one of the mistake I ve' made during drybrushing process. Looks like out of scale in 144! So used in scale 100 and 20 for all my weathering subject. Overlooked the brush sizes too! .......Well, its part of the snapfit learning curve.........

[Rayloke]

Looking good bro.

Yeah the dry brush really looks like oversanding... until u mentioned it n i checked out the knee part......

Hmm... honestly i still prefer Katori's original design to put all those red color decals. looks a little plain right now due to all the grey n silver decal.

I like the first picture

[Phoon]

Thxz for the heads up guys. Ain't easy for a 'weatherman' to snapfit a clean kit though...hahaha! ;D ;D ;D

Along the process, the most enjoyable part is applying waterslide decal. Though I made some hiccups to certain decals (due to thin film which get torn easily) but nevertheless it does gives a good impression on a plain kit.

Sidenote: gunpla mood seems ringing back!

[rennyd]

So it's really is dry-brushing. Would agree with Ray, somehow rather it just seems something missing without those red decals.

So since dry-brushing on the 1/144 is out of scale (as you said yourself), 1/100 should be no problem right!?? When will we be able to see the 1/100 MG Unicorn ;D ;D ;D

[Phoon]

May 8, 2012 16:50:05 GMT 8 rennyd said:

So it's really is dry-brushing. Would agree with Ray, somehow rather it just seems something missing without those red decals.

So since dry-brushing on the 1/144 is out of scale (as you said yourself), 1/100 should be no problem right!?? When will we be able to see the 1/100 MG Unicorn ;D ;D ;D

erm..gotta ask shermen the unicorn fetish-diehardcore-fan here! I'm more into mono-eye gang brudder! LOL!!!!

[duelmasterng]

Nice Unicorn