Icarus's blog: "Just South of Blue."

Exciting weekend of baseball if you like blown saves, near misses, grand slams and heart attacks.


Mostly heart attacks.




Shhhhh I like this song.







































K.



















I finally pushed myself to finish my 1/100 Hi-Nu Gundam. (Pictured under plamo). I actually sanded it before I assembled, and... then I wound up disassembling most of it minutes after finishing.

The plan is a 2-tone purple, ONE TINY body mod, some accent colors, and calling it a fucking month.


I got this kit in December 2012, I probably let it sit on my table for 2 3 weeks untouched, and I'v not painted in a while.  I bought about $80 worth of paint. You get free shipping after $75, and I wanted to stock up for 2 or 3 projects.


So there's a lot of lilac, black, white, metals, and red arriving. I think I even got some pink.

... SHUT UP!
There is pink... well... if I'm gonna do White Unicorn colors. Which, really, I cannot talk myself into. So ... frilly.






I'm writing this blog to pass the time while I watch paint dry
or at least primer.

There was primer drama. Again. Contents under pressure, and plastic/enamel polymers can fuck up on you.
Repeatedly.



I mostly wanted to plow through this Hi-Nu to turn my attention back to the GP-02, which is this massive, titanic menace.

The problem is all of 3 custom GP-02's exist, there's not a lot of reference material, and most of it is... well
shit.


It's not a popular unit, and yet one of my favorites.
I have no goddamn ideas for it.



My paint is 12 miles away, I have... accents (probably a half session), internals (another half session) light purple (2nd session), and dark purple.

Some of these accents are on such small parts that it'd hardly be worth loading and cleaning my airbrush.

















What I want to do with my GP-02? Make some sort of rusted, clawing boogeyman berserker emerging from scrap and burnt metal.

What I have the skills for?


... a color swap :/



I have no ideas for said color swap. Theory tells us to stick to red and black. It's in our psyche.






Black and red is for amateurs.














Writers block, only without words.








Hope to have Hi-Nu painted, posed and pictured soon.