#hi-nu

First we start with the boy:

Then we put him in his little seat:

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

Straight build with custom color scheme.

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.