Little do I know that I would be using this Jesta to be a part of a great team build with some fine gentlemen of the gunpla world, two of which are responsible for the gift; Simon/GundamUK, Derick/DX9902, Darren/The Anglian viking, Jeff/Effael and Justin/Justinius Builds. Simon and Darren were the two guilty for giving me this wonderful gem of a kit.
Anyway, we decided on a desert theme and I suggested we put ourselves as part of the 7th Mobile Suit Battalion and we agreed on naming our unit the '' Howling Coyotes ''. Everybody chose for a role within the team and I went for the artillery role. I gave this baby the call-sign ''Sphinx''.
Since we decided on a desert theme, the hardest for me to do was to decide on a colour scheme. I decided to go for a variation of the US MERDC's Red Desert colour scheme ( Link here - the pattern on the bottom of the page). Instead of 4 colours, I went with 3 colours.
That's the story of how this baby came to be. I will not be writing anything about how I painted and weather it as It will make the post into huge essay. These details can be found on my blog which I have linked after the photos -
I am my own harshest critique and there are some aspect of it that I could have done better. I did get rid of the seams on the guns but it wasn't enough. I can still see a little bit of seam on some places on the gun or was it a panel line? I don't know
. I could have put more sand collected on the nook and crannies of the machine but I got bored of it so I just said enough. Also, I totally regret using black for the back ground. A total failure. . I could nit pick myself for some of the chippings as well. Not happy with some of them. Many more photos and break down of what I did and the weathering effects are on my blog -
http://modeller-innovation.blogspot.co. ... on-mg.html
I would put more text here but I know people really don't like seeing a wall of text.
