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You have convinced me to buy this myself, always been on the fence lol

Heyy nice video Moshi!! Tha ka for sharing your thoughts on the kit - i find that really helpful planning future builds!

That kit looks so good, and you did amazing! Always glad to see your videos! 🤙

Waiting on mine to arrive hopefully it will be soon because I can’t wait lol. Orange is my favorite color and I like swords so it’s a win win for me lol. Such an awesome kit for sure. Thanks for posting this couldn’t find many videos on it so this is nice. Thanks so much!

excuse me sir, but 150 ml out of 50ml surfacer is not 3 to 1 (it's 1:2).

I enjoyed this kit. The shelf presence is insane

Excellent review Moshi! I LOL'd at the X-Wing bit :)

I might get this. How sturdy t Is the waist?

Scale of 1-10 how disastrous would it be to mix metallics with the leveling thinner?, cant find the rapid thinner.

got mine on monday and all cut off the runners and sanded ready for painting last night and planned to start painting this today. the molding on this kit is fantastic with it actually coming with decent panel line depths and not really requiring any touch up scribing. i came super close to picking a black for that dark blue though as until i read the manual i swore it was black lol. that gold is definitely "better" as you said but mine still has a ton of spots where two gate's flow collided and built up swirly color lines particularly in the area where the dragoons/fin funnels meet together. yours looks great snap built. this is definitely gonna look great up peoples shelves. i noticed the plastic foil stickers are seemingly much thinner than the ones that came with schwarzette is that the case that they much more flexible/less rigid? seeing this i planned to paint the pink with a candy over chrome i think as i'd die if i put down most stickers fine and messed up one with wrinkles or misalignment lol. one more thing, i know you use the modo thinner with the added retarder like i do but fyi the new line of Kaizo thinners that robot kai is carrying are awesome and work out even cheaper unless the modo is on a well discounted sale and as robot kai was the only place with modo at a good price and as they have no plans to restock it i doubt we will see modo thinner at $14/liter again. so far in testing the kaizo standard thinner levels as well or better than mr leveling or modo+retarder with less solvent pop than either and seems to be very very forgiving with application. keep the vids coming!

Seems like that much thinner would make the Gaia Star Bright too thin...but I guess it doesn't. I'd been mixing it 1:1 ratio.

Hi! So the 1:2 ratio also works for the mr color clear topcoats yea?

when u hold the bottles up to the camera, and then shake your hand, we can read a damn thing, hold the bottle steady!

What nase kit do you need for this resin kit

Hey! So i do this method as well for all of my paints. but ive noticed that aqueous turns kind of brown when it sits awhile. Has this happened to your prethinned paints as well? I used mr color leveling thinner with pre mixing.

hi! i just started today with mr color and im using leveling thinner, i dont feel mr color coverage its good, i used black, purple and red (RATIO: 1 PAINT, 1.5 THINNER) and for example black didnt covered good as an acrylic one :c that means i gotta use a lot of paint in 1 piece

just before i mix for my 1st time this video shows up, nice job~

so adding all that extra thinner won't make the primer very watery and runner of plastic part as you airbrush?

Great tip thanks for sharing just connected to you

2/1 sufacer and not 3/1

Bruh you're in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio!? You go to JC Comics?

I haven't built this one yet. Waiting on the MG 😂

I like a more 1:1.3 or 1:1.5 personally.

Thank You

The shelf life is many years ,and as for how many kits you can paint with them depends on you ,everyone paints differently ,like I have colors I bought in 2020 that I still have almost a full bottle of since I use more than 1 color to paint a kit some just get used for details and others I have sprayed 5 or more kits with and still have half the bottle left ,if I had to guess though out of a 60ml bottle you can probably get 5 to 8 kits depending on how many coats you spray .

What would you say how long these last for you? Like how many kits could you airbrush with hem?

Hey have you started live builds yet? Would like to see some airbrushing as well as custom colored gunplas!

Hey thanks for showing your process. Very helpful and always wondered how people pre mixed theyr stuff.

I use hot water to remove the labels from their bottles.

Couple of questions: how do you clean the bottles after you exhaust the color? Lacquer thinner? The acetone in there shouldn’t play very nice with plastic. And do you get any paint deterioration after you pre-thin your paints? How long do you figure you can safely keep them stored pre-thinned?

Semper Fi, I'm in my barracks room learning how to do this as I watch xD

this was one of my favorite builds for sheer looks it just looks so good when done and is super unique on the shelf. it does have some "older kit" seam issues but it fits together well enough to look great oob. some brown panel lining and copper touch up in the flower funnels and wand made them look incredible. yours looks great with grey too. afaik this was only ever p bandai and the pink version is the standard farsia. it is different only in accessories and color, the stand is very different and instead of the wand it has a flat beam hand thing

What ml bottles do you use for primer??

i was ready to make a drinking game of you saying "almost there" lol. i mix almost all my colors and have said that a few hundred plus times myself. an important thing to consider with bandai manual paint recommendations is they are for the acrylic line and not the lacquer and while the ranges are similar they are definitely different enough to effect mixing ratios. mixing by weight always yield a more consistent result for me when i need to repeat the color should i run out of the mix. with a 15 dollar digital scale that weighs in 1/100ths of a gram it is easy enough to scribble the weight in grams of each color on a piece of wide masking tape and stick to the bottle with the model and runner it is mixed for. i much prefer this method now and to mix up just a few ml at a time maybe 10-30ml of thinned paint and mix more if needed. another thing to consider if mixing according to the color swatches in the manual is both the integrity of the reproduced printing compared to the anime and the lighting source you view it in. i worked in a printing house that made manuals for medical and home electronics when those were still a thing and not a qr code prompting you to use your data to download a pdf and i can say with confidence that the final output is within an acceptable range to the customer and accuracy across thousands of pages is expensive. i have countless manuals from bandai listing a single color abnd when you prime an paint the manual itself next to the swatch they are radically different with the swatch being almost orange instead of the yellow orange for example on my nu gundam rg manual (think the difference between walmarts cheapest egg's yolk and whole food's most expensive one's). of course it won't help to view it under poor lighting that doesn't show as full a spectrum as possible. i've found it helps to also paint a bit over the runner or a primed runner and let it dry before settling on the color. while not as obvious as with household latex paint for walls, hobby paints still can lighten or darken when dry. but ultimately it comes down to your happiness unless you are shooting for anime accuracy and thats the only thing that will make you happy haha

I think the Yellow and white gold looks just fine. I've left it alone and painted the C and G runner parts. I'm too lazy to strip the gold. I've repainted the armor parts to a custom Mr.Color paints of my choice 😀

I think you should use Mr.Color 20 its 100% the same color from the runner your trying to make

Thank you

Where you get thos Gaia pants?

Could tell that was NEFFEX from a mile away!! Haha. Great build. Your page is starting off strong with a resin build. Nice color and detail. Can't wait to see where you go with this channel. Thanks for subscribing to my channel as well. Nice to meet you

Working on the RG Epyon.

So, when you add all that thinner does the paint still work well? i normally use mr surfacer 1500 and mr leveling thinner and i do 1:1.5 paint:thinner so what is the benefit of adding all that extra thinner? thank you i am trying to learn and i am new to airbrushing. i airbrush gunpla.

If you are using 3:1 thinner to surfacer ratio, should you not have 150ml thinner to 50ml surfacer for a total of 200ml? If your bottle is 150ml, thats a 2:1 ratio if I am not mistaken.

haha this is llke watching a video of myself. nearly identical methodology even down to making my own modo+retarder for way less than mr leveling and imho frankly it sprays better. i wish i could source the sds for it and find out just what is in it. curious where you got the lids for those mr hobby thinners with a flip top? are these old bottles that came like this or aftermarket caps?

awesome info. and video just subbed. if i ever start a hobbyist channel i'll make a video referring people to this video as you juyst about covered everything really clearly and in a great educational manner. i hope you don't mind i did see a couple things of note. gaianotes specifically states on their homepage in a big disclaimer to never put a steel bearing and shake their paints up and down. they use very thin glass and this will crack them. i've had 2 of them have the bottom completely separate in a clean break and dump the contents all over my work space when using both the little saturn shaped metal things spraygunner sells and the standard 8mm steel bearings ak and others sell. i emailed them and they are obviously very aware of this as they told me in a sort of scolding manner that i should have read their disclaimer lol and are not interested in changing bottles. small glass marbles are a better choice for sure with gaia bottles but they say not to use them even. i'd say use glass beads and mix gently, using swirling vs rattling motions. this paint is too nice to throw away for sure. it simply wont shake well at un thinned viscosity so i just focus on getting the leftover pigments out during the thinner washes of the bottle while topping up the large bottle like you did and really never had anything that would not come out from this. if you mix up your paint like this video shows you really only gotta worry about it once so its not too hard to not practice maracas with this one brand but these are richly pigmented and many of their ultra finely ground pigments do tend to stay in the sharp bottom corner in a dense cake so anyone who gets these definitely needs to mix it really well. i think it is a very good practice to premix if you only intend to airbrush the paint as you are able to get a perfect ratio of pigment to resin to thinner and every time you grab that paint you will know exactly what to expect. run off a few spoons and runner waste to see how each color lays down at specific pressures, tag the bottle with best range and make fast work when actually painting. if anyone is nervous of premixing solvent paints you should be. but only enamels or if, heaven forbid, you use homedepot lacquer thinner instead of a japanese brand. enamel thinners will evaporate from the seal and you will pollute your space and end up with thick paint needing more thinner that is gonna outgas like the stuff it is replacing. enamels just are best mixed per job or stored in glass with a double or compression seal like alclad does with their candies. if you are a viewer and wondering these caps rarely if ever leak when used properly and they do a fantastic job of keeping lacquer solvents and alcohols in. i was nervous of this but a year later, more than 200 lacquers premixed, 51 of them gaia hehe and maybe 3 faulty caps (these bottles cost like 52 cents in bulk there's gonna be occasional duds) and i won't ever go back to mixing up lacquer paint each time i use it. just grab, shake the plastic bottle like crazy or use a orbital mixer and dispense paint throughg a mesh filter into the cup and toss the filter into a old 50 ml gaianotes surfacer bottle of 30:70 ratio of acetone:isoproanol to soak till next i clean the paint from the brush and clean the filter fully. no more daily personal pipette landfill, no dust getting into the bottle each of the 50 or so times i may use that color over its life. hobby mio sells a better cap but a worse bottle lol. bottles too stiff to squeeze and cap is amazing anti drip design.it will fit SOME other brand bottles but ive had them split where the round threaded wall meets the bevel that leads to the nozzle on others so if using hobby mio caps on other brand bottles do not overtighten. the seals really dont need much pressure tbh so just snug them. and you are correct in searching for "pet tattoo mixing bottle" to get the crystal clear hard polyethylene ones like this. omitting "tattoo" will flood the results with soft cloudy ones best for travel shampoo not hot thinned paint. even the best paper towels will make a huge flurry of static charged airborne fibers and i'm not a fan. blue shop towel can be better but nothing beats " lint free nail wipes" that look like 2" squares w rounded corners and little perforations. these rule and are worth it at about 5 cents per wipe in bulk from asia or even 10 cents in a smaller package from amazon. i tend to use less $$$$ in these than paper towel as they are so good at small wipes and dry sort of locking the paint and they dont become a soggy ball of fibers i reuse them when wiping out my paintcup in the initial stages, and they are actually soft enough they dont scratch well cured glossy paint if you need to do any post painting cleaning with soap and water and many paper towels will look like you used 800 grit if you try this i also mix my paint and thinner up front and relabel my bottles and gaia are so nice they rarely mess up especially fresh bottles. modo never mess up alclad always leave adhesive on bottle and a totally clean useless shiny foil label in your hand and jumpwind are an exercise in zen haha. i do the blade trick the same too when the label delaminates mr hobby are awful labels even brand new you gotta do this the entire peel every 1/4" and it still may tear. jumpwind if it got even slightly damp the paper becomes pulp and refuses to be nice losing all integrity. i had ok luck putting a piece of clear packing tape on those first and carefully peeling the laminated assembly off but id still likely just print any more jumpwind i buy. you would be correct to use the rapid thinner on the metallic surfacer two fold as the rapid thinner has a little more bite on the plastic at normal dilution and is ideal for any surfacer particularly, pun intended, if you are going to be overthinning it and spraying mist coats with a small needle into targeted areas of scratches in multiple layers to fill in moderate cracks as it dries so fast when over reduced it allows you to pack in the talc or whatever that paint uses in their filler and not have it mess up surrounding areas or lift the particles you have just put into the crack on prior coats and really lay coat after coat, drying in just 20-30 seconds for the next one. I've been able to smooth out some areas id messed up sanding this way and hide imperfections the initial full coats didn't fill and even fill in tiny nub divots that did not seem worth using smelly and messy putty from a witch from mercury model i nipped the purple frame that's really soft plastic while really tired and wasn't careful and pulled out plastic instead of slicing it. gaia surfacer is just amazing for this at around 1:5 thin and 13-16 psi in my ps-270. i can't recall where i saw this technique i know it was a korean gunpla builder and it seems totally counter intuitive but worked so well i rarely dont thin the final drops in the cup and look for areas to touch up before cleaning the brush out after a surfacer. finally, why does gaia metallic master have to cost more than above average 25 year old scotch?? seriously.. is wild. i got some on a storewide 30% once and wow wish id gotten more it is truly the best. not quite worth 3x other brands. i usually use born paint metal thinner from galactic toys it is about the cheapest japanese metallic thinner at 15$/500ml and frankly amazing. i think it's nicer than mr hobby rapid especially on pearls and micas and primers. these lay down so thin and smooth but seem to cover better than when thinned with leveling thinner at least at my humidity and temperature. a really wet coat of paint with born metallic thinner on bare plastic will etch so be aware if you try it out. i've only done this while deliberately flooding runners with airbrush to test how hot it is but it definitely textured the plastic. since its not meant to be sprayed like this its not an issue really when sprayed in light coats with a little time to flash between them looking forward to more videos you seem to really get what you're doing and why it works. it is refreshing with so many creators who seem to have very little desire to understand the things behind the things they have chosen to do. i promise not to write my thesis out again unless you feature metallic thinners as its sort of my passion with 80% of my pieces using predominantly gaia, born and jumpwind metallics and custom mixes i make from bulk nitrocellulose and dry pigments and lately using bulk single solvents and playing with ratios to better understand how each solvent behaves alone and interacting with others in a mix to help disperse the pigments as im not really happy being told that metallic thinner works better or even seeing that it does i absolutely have to know the mechanics behind it before being satisfied and moving onto the next quest for understanding lmfao

Full armor gundam 1/100.

Semper Fi buddy!

First kit for me this year and might be the only kit is the MG Barbatos. Can't wait to see this build done.

Would you say the thinning ratio is the same for the Mr. Aqueous colors? I mix them 1:1 right now but would of course love to get more paint out of my jars 😅 I'm also using the Leveling Thinner since my local hobby store doesn't sell the aqueous thinner but it works just fine.

Thank you for doing this video I was looking for someone to show me how it's done with all of the materials needed. This video is perfect. Thank you

Hey man just wanted to ask. How many HG kits can you paint with one bottle of Gaianotes Star Bright Iron?