Finished my first Non-Gundam model!
As the title says, this was my first ever non-gundam build, and also my first time ever using an airbursh. While far from perfect, this model has a lot of sentimental value to me, since I assembled it with my dad's help, who had never built any sort of model before, as a way to distract ourselves from my mother's passing, and general bad stuff that's been going around in my life.
Airbrushing was very intimidating at first, but once I got over the initial fear it was extremely satisfying. I still have to work on getting even coverage, but I think for a first try it was not too bad. One thing that made it harder is that we assembled it first before painting anything, which made it more challenging due to having to mask things like windows, different colors. etc.
Another thing is that I know that some of the colors are not perfectly matching, but I don't have the biggest budget right now so I had to make due with what I could find.
My favorite part (aside from the bonding time from the initial assembly) was placing the wet decals, I found it very satisfying to see the model slowly come to life with every new decal. I also really liked actually working with wet stickers, before this my only decal experience had been with dry-rub ones on a Zaku 2.0 and found them very unforgiving and honestly kind of un-fun. These ones on the other hand were the complete opposite, even when one of the door handle one's folded over and stuck to itself, I was still able to completely rescue it (albeit it took like 20 mins of finagling it with some tweezers and water).
Now I'm trying to budget like crazy to be able to buy my next model! Hopefully soon.
Anyways, if you made it this far into my post, thank you for taking the time to read it, this community is awesome and I'm always super impressed with all of the models and projects y'all post, hope you all stay amazing :).
Posted Sep 29, 2026, 2:16 AM UTC