Progress update on the Liberta Modifica, which is Latin for "Modified Freedom" (yeah, yeah, Fox, real creative). Anyways, met up with Trace and Serene yesterday and was able to get Trace to help me with masking some of the parts. So yeah, this project is pretty much turning into a real group effort. Here's the internal frame of the kit with most of the armor removed.
"I'm too sexy for my armor, too sexy for armor, so sexy it hurts~!"
Soon-to-be-white armor parts in two thin coats of primer. I think this is gonna be the last time i'll be using Now as a primer for white parts as the end results weren't too satisfactory on this project.
Soon-to-be-blue armor parts in two primer coats.
Armor parts in three light layers of white lacquer.
In order to create a bit of a pre-shadowed effect for the blue and silver parts, a couple coats of flat black were needed at first
Same here.
The internal frame in two coats of steel gray. Oddly enough, even though the can says "steel gray", the paint comes out just glossy, not metallic. False advertising, Bosny!
"I'm too sexy for my armor, too sexy for my armor, too sexy, yeeeaaahhh!"
Armor parts in light blue, the overhead lights in this pic are too strong but you can see hints of black under the blue when in normal lighting.
Kinda forgot to take pics during the masking process of the torso, as the colors i wanted required that the rear two-thirds of the upper part were blue while the front third was white. Problem was that the front chest assembly was in cast as one whole piece, thus requiring masking of the white parts. So yeah, too excited to start work so the pics were forgotten, so here's a test fit of it instead. Tried applying the included dry-transfer decals but they're barely noticeable here.
Most of the project (the MS itself) is already done now, except for the weapons, shield and dragoon system backpack a.k.a the wing. I've got the rifles but the wings are being worked on separately. I left them with Trace-02 yesterday since i suck big time on masking. More updates soon.