[WIP] MG Strike Freedom Gundam WIP 1

Since I've ran out of ideas on how to proceed with my current projects, mainly working out how to wire the remaining parts. I've decided to start another project until I can come up with ideas for the remaining pieces. 

Another reason is since I'm running low on my LED stocks, my projects will have to be put on hold until my orders arrives. And with that, I'll have to do more that just LED mods for this project. Since this is a gift from my girlfriend, this'll have to be my best work yet.

For this project, instead of just wiring this with LEDs, I'll be fully painting this using Zurc paints.

I'll be doing mostly metallic finish for this project. Here's a test using some of the runners. The white has that metallic/pearl effect to it. I''m really liking this paint.

But I'd still be lighting this up.

I'm basing my LED mods on how the suit was lit up in the anime.

This is a screenshot from the anime. Aside from the eyes and thrusters, it appears to be lit in various areas like the chest, knee areas and a few areas in the backpack. I've already worked on the knee and chest areas. I'll still have to plan the shoulders and the backpack areas.

For the colors, I'll be keeping the original colors albeit making them metallic. I'd also like to add some color tone differences.

For the tone differences, I just masked and painted the desired areas with grey base color, then painting them all with white.

It's a bit hard to get the metallic/pearl effect in the cameras but really looks good in actual. Also the exposed frames are painted using Tamiya Acrylic Gold Leaf.

With the busy schedule I have right now, I'm lucky that I can still find the time to work on this bit by bit. I'm expecting this project to be a bit slower than my regular projects so I can plan what I want to do and execute them without problems. I want this to be my best work yet.