Daemon Engine Barbatos. Just under 2 months work from start to finish. First time doing weathering, first real attempt at pre-shading and also my first scenic base.
Custom painted Wild Liger and Hunter Wolf (Zoids Wild motorized kits)
Painted with regular acrylics instead of my usual model paints and then given a clear coat, these two were definitely an experiment. But I'm really proud of how they turned out!
Pic/video quality is very bad but omg I love the kosmos kit so much. My first LED kit and although the documentation could use some work it was relatively straightforward.
Finally took some nice pictures of my RG Hi-Nu Gundam :)
This kit is special to me because it's the last gunpla I finished before my kiddo was born. I actually wrapped it up over a year ago but I haven't had the time/energy/drive to take DSLR pictures of it til now.
The paintjob is based on an old Moon Gundam commission I did back in 2020 and the Unicorn Gundam. The pink/red accents are meant to invoke the Unicorn's psychoframe :) I used grey in place of blue on this because I wanted to use the polygonal decals that the RG line uses but since some of those decals are white I had to make my color choices based on that.
Overall very happy with this little guy. The kit itself is wonderful and this paintjob is really striking, if'n you ask me. I have the HMBL for this too and that parts are all prepped, they just need to be painted. Dunno when I'll get around to that but it'll probably be before the year is out.
So Bandai’s 30 Minute Mission line is going to do the Armored Core model kits which is WILD and also incredibly appropriate bc the 30 MM line is already pretty much Model Kit LEGO. Like there’s around two dozen extra part kits specifically designed for you to make your own customs. With universal joints it’s incredibly easy for even beginners to bust out there own custom mech model.
Here’s a video going over that in more detail
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Link for the announcement
What this ALSO means for those interested is they they should also be compatible with the 30 Minute Sisters line which is the same design philosophy but just mecha musume kits. That line ALSO has a ton of kits and extra parts kits to explore.
ALSO!!!!! With the revive line of HG Gundams (I’m thinking especially g witch since they started using C-Clip joints in the legs) they would ALSO be compatible with the 30MM/MS line and now this new Armored Core line as well. So you really could make a kitbash of Armored Core x Gundam model.