Nick's Hobby Bloggy

Hey folks, welcome back! Here's an update on my Gunpla build, I forgot how long these things take to hobby. I've been approaching this kit from the most meticulous angle possible, i.e. cleaning each piece, then separately painting before re-assembling. As you can imagine, this process takes a bit longer than the good ol', "build it and paint it" method I normally use on my gaming miniatures. For what it's worth, I'm constantly struggling with whether I actually prefer this OCD-esque method of assembly, since so much of the Gunpla kit is obscured by other elements. Likewise, I don't really care about posability, since I think of these kits as more like statues than action figures. In the future, I will probably approach these kits with a more mixed philosophy (some parts separate, some parts posed and glued), but that's a problem for future me! Anyway, first things first, let's paint some parts. Once (almost) all the pieces of the leg sub...

Hey folks, welcome back! Today's blog post covers a new kit I'm working on, something that's a bit of a departure from my normal 15mm hobbying. I'm now elbows deep in a sweet Gunpla kit I picked up back in 2016 that's been patiently sitting in my hobby hoard. For the past 4 years I've been working exclusively on miniatures for gaming, whether Kings of War, Kingdom Death: Monster, SAGA, Gruntz, etc, etc. However, with a global pandemic going on, I've had fewer opportunities to game than normal, so I figured now might be a good time to work on something else. I've been debating how intensely I wanted to hobby this kit: just clean up and assembly, assembly and paneling, or assembly and the whole painting/decals/weathering shebang. Clearly I'm a perfectionist, so the whole shebang it is! With that in mind, I'm working on each sub assembly separately as I try to tackle this monstrosity of a kit. I'm trying to keep maximum posability wh...