This time I tried a different approach.
On my last build I put everything together and painted the parts afterwards.
This time I kept almost everything on its sprues and painted the parts first.
Because these things are also designed to be a toy, to some extend, the different sprues are moulded in different colours, so that it is not necessary to paint this kit.
This made colouring rather easy.
After painting I let the colour dry for about a week, which made it somewhat resilient.
Not very proud of my figure painting skills. Gotta start somewhere...
But I think it's a little bit better than before on my first Sakura Wars project.
Used the airbrush for the uniform this time, worked a little better.
Details, face and hair were painted with the paintbrush. The paint too thin here and there. Still figuring things out.
The decal for the right eye moved a little bit. I am not very happy with its placement, but luckily I can hide him inside the cockpit-
Everything painted and put together. Time for some gloss coat.
In addition to the waterslide decals the comes with some stickers, mostly golden highlights. I used most of the but not all.
It helps a lot using those as they are used to give some raised details their golden colour without the need of extensive masking, some of them still give the model a toy-ish vibe. A thing I'd like to avoid.
Gloss coat finished.
The next steps will be a pin wash and decals. After that a few coats of matt varnish and then some light weathering, dirt and scratches.
Imperial Combat Revue, Flower Division
Spiricle Striker Mugen (Seijuro Kamiyama's machine)
Taisho 29 (1940)
Tokyo, Japan
The mecha of Kamiyama Seijuro, captain of the Flower Division of the Imperial Combat Revue.
Before transferring to the Combat Revue he was an Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy and commanded a ship, which gives him a very similar background to the protagonist of the original Sakura Wars game series.
