RX-78-2 Gundam with LEDs

The front head piece was too thick to safely cut the eyes open, so I recasted the head and cut the visor open, put back to the mold and filled the visor with transparent resin. Then glued two yellow SMD leds inside the head. 

I recasted the sword with transparent resin and while casting I put purple SMD led inside. I burned two leds and had to make the sword several times again. I had also problems with the resin as I didn't care to bake it afterwards and some became pretty soft. 

Its a long lasting project as the Reichenberg in the picture was completed a while ago. The head is almost complete and legs have got the white primer. 

Motivational assembly and it is working! Some paints need to be fixed and some parts are missing (shield, gun, backpack). 

Shield fits and this will be probably the final pose. Due the COVID-19 I had to abandon this club room in my University and move to my 1-room apartment. 

Finally got a rainy day when my apartment is not hot as hell, so I tried my new air brush settings. The shield now has the main colors. I made the bullet holes and hits with a hot needle and knife. 

I can declare the shield ready. Aged with acrylics and oil paints. Vallejo's matt varnish on top. 

I got decals set. Next wil be panel wash and weathering. A patform needs to be made also. 

The gun and the backpack have paint decals too. The gun will be just lying on the platform because hands are taken by the saber and the shield. 

Panel lines done and weathering under progress. First dry brushing some metallic paint, then rust and lastly oilpainting some grime. 

I finally started doing the platform. Main material is black Fimo mass and I just improvised it around the battery back. Gundam model would prefer a flat surface, so I would make a remnant of a floor from some packaging plastic. It will take inspiration from the space fortress A Baoa Qu in the end of One Year War on December 31, UC 0079. 

The platform needed some kit and other details. Finally I added the floor onto the asteroid with milliput. 

After the milliput dried the platform got painted in one day. Here it has black primer, white airbrushed from above and floor has silver paint 

I got to test a chipping fluid for the first time in the floor part. Other weathering was pretty basic compared to Gundam includig wash with panel line accent color, drybrushing and applying Tamiya Weathering master stuff. 

Almost ready! The connector needs to be glued into the platform and Gundam ensures that the connector is in the right position. I'm using green stuff for that. 

LEDs are nice 😄DD