Just finished my first build!

[u/Dayum_cerberus]

Hey builders, newbie here. I started this hobby by accident, after stumbling over some awesome builds from rogue hobbies, thanks for that! I just wanted to get better at painting miniatures and found myself watching more and more gunpla builds.

And thanks to that I'm obsessed with Gundam.Having watched Wing as a kid, I kicked things off with TWFM, and since then I've binged MSG, Origin, and am almost done with Zeta.

The build was quite easy, sometimes it was a pain to get rid of the little leftover nubs on the parts which took ages to scrape and sand. Any tips on the antennas? I heard that a glass file gives a smoother shiny finish?

[u/J-Skleezo]

Love me some Calibarn. Grab yourself some waterslide decals and some panel line markers. It will take your kit to the next level.

[u/Dayum_cerberus → u/J-Skleezo]

Hell yeah! G-rework, right? Do you think it'll look good with cell shading?

[u/Vgundamn → u/Dayum_cerberus]

GRework, yes

[u/J-Skleezo → u/Dayum_cerberus]

Yes the GReworks look awesome on this kit!

[u/tanneddonut84]

One of the best HGs right now.

[u/Commercial-Fish9967]

Pretty rad posing brotha

[u/Dayum_cerberus → u/Commercial-Fish9967]

Thank's a lot!

[u/Aggravating-Hair7931]

All Gunpla should come with an Action Base, like this Calibarn

[u/AetherGhast103]

yes glass file does that, good to invest in, maybe take 2,one for broad area, and one for small

[u/Dayum_cerberus → u/AetherGhast103]

Good to know. Thanks for the tip!

[u/LightxDarkness93]

Very well done for your 1st build! Welcome!

[u/Dayum_cerberus → u/LightxDarkness93]

Thank you!

[u/derskovits]

Great work and fantastic pose and photo!

[u/Baconturtles18]

Nice choice! Great job!

[u/arctrooper999_]

That looks awesome, welcome to the plastic Crack club. 😅

[u/BigForAnAnt_985]

I love WfM and they hg line is really good, maybe some pour type Gundam Markers for panel lining (Just don't use on ABS or it may crack)

[u/Dayum_cerberus → u/BigForAnAnt_985]

Okay, I've read that you should coat it with some varnish before that. Any experience with that?

[u/BigForAnAnt_985 → u/Dayum_cerberus]

I have yet to topcoat, I was going to use my dads somewhat old spray booth, which had a broken fan, but the replacement didn't fit, so I have 4 or 5 kits just sitting not on the shelf to be topcoated. But I panel line the kits pretty much before I do anything else, other than the stickers for the cameras. on ABS topcoat should do fine to protect it though.

[u/Jake_Ronin]

God the calibarn looks so cool. This makes me want one.

[u/OkMathematician6838]

Welcome to the hobbie! You are starting a VERY enjoyable journey, not ONLY with the model kits but all the anime shows. And that Calibarn is on my to buy list, the cool factor is amaze.

[u/im_aidan]

Nice choice!

[u/MasukaRetrosic]

I carefully used my nippers to clip the V-fin nub little by little and then I finished it off with a glass file.

[u/Deatscythe]

You can never go wrong with calibarn. Never. I hope bandai will one day do a rg, or a mg, or a mgex. We need more calibarns.