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Finished my first painted model. Pic related.
I fucked up so many times on this I don't know where to begin. Half of the joints I snapped and had to glue back together, so I've lost the ability to pose them (one joint in each knee is fucked, left arm is permanently at a 90 degree bend). I've had peeling issues, had to strip several parts a few times, and perhaps worst of all are those fucking specks of color you can see everywhere. I'm not even sure how those got there since I made sure to paint different colored parts very far away from each other and mostly on separate days. I'm fairly certain they weren't there before I did final assembly, so my best bet is that they're dust from me shaving off the paint from a few connectors so they'll fit for assembly.
But even with all that, I'm happy I've finished her and I'm sort of fond of her.
She was painted with a mix of rattle cans and handpainting with drained gundam markers. I've already ordered an airbrush and compressor for my next projects, I'm not going through this shit again (some of the problems came from me living in a climate that's really bad for spray painting).
