#hi-nu

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here's my first two custom paint jobs :3

[luperpla]

MG kits I've finished from 2020-2025 in no particular order

[erika-mr]

Last one for 2025

[sylviegunpla]

Amuro Ray gets Cask of Amontillado'd into the MG Ver Ka Hi-ν (SUPPLEMENTAL to: Gunpla: Completed Collection of Minis Part 1: EFSF Alliance)

First we start with the boy:

Then we put him in his little seat:

Then he becomes entombed in The Sphere: (below the cut)

The little sphere sits in the Inner Frame:

and the outer frame gets assembled (and yes i see the decal that has fallen off, such is life; this was before i used Mr. Softer and Mr. Setter)

We can still see him from above

And then the outer armor is complete, and we shut the hatch:

All that's left is The Machine:

Boo!

[architect-mouse-studios]

RG Hi-Nu Gundam

Straight build with custom color scheme.

Man, I forgot how good Real Grades can be. This is an extremely straight straight build; other than my alterations to the color scheme, there are no alterations to the base kit. No extra painting or masking, no modifications, no scribed panel lines, I just took the pieces of the kit, painted each one, put ‘em together, applied the decals, and that was it.

With the exception of the small decals, every color you see is a separate piece. Even among Real Grades, the RG Hi-Nu is just an incredibly designed kit.

The color scheme comes courtesy of one of the first model kits I ever bought: the Titanium Finish MG Nu Ver. Ka. The Titanium Finish version changes the color scheme to this more stark white/black/red/gold instead of the default white/blue/red/yellow, and I’ve always thought it looked a lot better.

This guy won second place in the 1/144 category at Mid-Valley Madness 2024!

[rectlyte]

I love Gundam.

[luperpla]

My WIP for November (or Gundamber, if you're in to that) has been the RG Hi-Nu. The Hi-Nu itself is one of my favorite Gundam designs, enough that I've built the original MG, the MG Ver. Ka, and now this little RG version.

I did a bunch of masking on the frame, because there's a ton of detail there, lots of the frame shows through the armor and on top of it, there's a hatch open gimmick so you can see a lot of that detail when the kit is done!

There's a lot of room to do some truly impressive inner frame detail if you wanna, but I got the idea to paint this kit similarly to the Moon Gundam commission I did for a friend last year with a little added twist.

But with all of the frame detail underneath it, I thought it would be cool to link the Nu ver. Ka and Unicorn to the Hi-Nu by incorporating their full body psychoframe in to the frame detail. I envisioned this as a second Hi-Nu unit that was a testbed for the full psychoframe and NT-D that would go on to be used in the Unicorn.

I think it worked out pretty good, but I've still got some tweaks to make to the fluorescent pink parts to make them match the metallic finish on the red/dark red parts of the frame.

These parts were some of the most annoying to mask off, but the end result turned out to be well worth it.

The yellow detail here were also tricky to mask off and paint but I hope they'll add a lot to the final build. As you can see, I did some masking so I could pain the inside of the vents grey. A reverse wash probably would have be good to do here too, but I don't really use enamel paints so masking it is.

Stuff is split up in to two groups now- parts ready for flat coat (no decals or panel lining needed on those parts) and parts that need a gloss coat so they can be panel lined and decaled before getting their flat coat. Lately, I've been really enjoying doing a bit of preshading on my builds but in the interest of getting this one done in a somewhat timely manner, I opted to go for a clean/unshaded build for this kit. I still think it'll look great when I'm done if my Astraea R3 is any indication, especially once I finally get to work on the funnels for this kit.

Uh....that's all for now.

[da-looplord]

Look at these lads