How to Hand-Paint Mecha/Gunpla

Greetings my readers and my fellow modelling enthusiasts. Welcome to another post from the hummingbird.

First of all, I would love to apologize for my lack of update on my blog. 

Its just that I have been jobless for the past year and now, I got a job .. ( well, its only a hotel receptionist job and its kinda feel awkward for a material science grad to be doing this kind of work but what can I do in this time :/ ) and I was busy with training and the manager keep giving me shitty rota that I can't even touch my models any more but don't worry, I haven't quit the hobby yet. So, Sorry for the lack of updates.. I will update after I have adjusted my life.. 

Right, onto the main feature of this post ... I would like to feature a video from a  dear friend who is also brother from another mother and also a leader ( when we play online games). And that said person is no other then Mr. Kamm, the Hand Painting Assassin himself. 

As you all know, Hand Painting Assassin paints all his models by hand brush and he has generously made a video tutorial about how he hand paint his models. 



Without further ADO, I present to you, ''' How to hand paint Gunpla/Mecha ''' tutorial from the Hand Painting Assassin himself.... So do enjoy .. .and don't forget to like, comment or subscribe to Kamm's channel...... 

Hope that was helpful to you... it was helpful to me.. but sadly, I have given up hand painting... :P ....
Hope you enjoyed this giant tutorial from a great modeler ( and a great guy to boot) ...
Don't forget to  like, comment or subscribe to Kamm's channel...... Stay Tuned until next post .

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Special Feature 1.2 - Kamm's Ground type Sazabi (HG)

Hello there Ladies ( if there are any) and gents .... Once again, its time for the little birdy to blog again....


And that's right ... you saw it in the title... Another special feature ... a few moons back, I made a first special feature and this is the second one .... and in the special feature, I will be featuring a ground-breakin, breath-taking work for one of the Legend of MAC and ADMIN of. MAC . A man with a golden heart, who goes by the name of ''' trumpet'' .....Kamm.


Now if you all could remember that I made a blog post about the build off between the Decaying Legend and the Hand Painting Assassin, You might have noticed already What I will be featuring today. But in case you don't remember, let me kindly refresh your memories with a link back to it - Here it is 


I seriously doubt Kamm will need introduction to who or what he is .. but just in case you guys forgot about him or haven't actually heard about him, let me refresh your memories - 

• Kamm  only got into the hobby since 1 year ago, 
• He loves to paint models - he's a painting guy, pure and simple.... 
• He used to paint warhammer models and now, he has switched to gunpla. 
• He HAND BRUSH his models - that's right, HAND BRUSH 
• His most famous work is the FAZZ: FEARED ONE
• He rose to fame after building his HLJ gundam
• And best of all, A very very very good friend of mine.

Kamm is a very skilled modeler, most particularly  in the painting and weathering departments. He has done  a range of modeling including painting warhammer figures, clean works, weathered and the ever impressive modifying works.


If you could kindly refer back to the announcement about their build off, Decay and Kamm decided to mod a HIGH GRADE Sazabi into their own version. Kamm choose to work on a ground  type and he really went all out on his sazabi.


To go along with this concept, and of course with some help from me ( hehe, just kidding) ... he choose to go with a two tone green colour scheme just as you would see a real war machine in the outside world.


And don't let this blow you away  but the whole kit has been hand painted. You saw it right, , Hand painted... I will be damned if I could find a single brush stroke on that thing... Always tried to look for one so that I could rub it in his face.. but damn, I still can't find one... LOL



Just with Decay's sazabi, You may be wondering why I featuring this exclusively while I have my own chapter, featuring Kamm's work...  Well, here's a list of why -
1st - a very very magnificent piece of model
2nd - the mods are just too realistic, I am a military geek and I can assure you, he made everything practical and realistic 
3rd - one of the best weathering I have seen
4th - amazing paint and clour scheme, Certified by this Military Geek ( me !!)
5th - perfect decals 



I could go on and on about this Sazabi ... but Why prolong the photo section?? You guys properly can't wait anymore ...
So without Further Ado, I present to you ....
'' The ASSASSIN SAZABI '' 

A simple yet beautiful wallpaper made by  Kamm himself -









And as you know, is a Vloger so here is his video he made for this baby -

Kamm doesn't have a blog but you can see many more photos and the discussion over at the the offical Thread over at MAC.

I hope you will find this Sazabi as magnificent and beautiful as I do. Lets give Kamm a round of applause for completing such a monster and please DO visit his channel to give feedback, add friend or subscribe.

Oh, and if by any chance you know Kamm  or if he has helped inspire you or helped you in modeling or whatever it is, please do click the picture below and check the tread out.

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You will know what I'm talking about and What is going on and What to do after visiting that page. So please please, do visit that page.

I hope this post has been a fun to read one.
As usual, thanks so so much for being such supportive and kind readers.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE

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Build Off - Kamm Vs Decay

Hello party people. I terribly sorry to post this belated event but, to my own silliness, I completely forgotten about it. My bad.

Right, before anything ... let me just post this banner I shamelessly ripped from Decay's blog



Yep... That's right, its a build off between legends of MAC. I dobut there is a need to further introduce Kamm as you all would know him as the Hand Painting Assassin. His Works have been featured on my blog and Don's blog so , if you kindly let me, I will skip the intro about Kamm. ( Sorry kamm buddy.. haha )

Right, I haven't featured Decay as much as Kamm, so here's a summarized info about him -

• Decay has been modelling for over 20 years
• only started working on Gunpla for a mere two year
• Decay was only scarcely active at figure FM once
• he became an active member of MAC as soon as he register
• He now hold the VIP status in MAC
• And best of all, A very very very good friend of mine.

Right, Kamm and Decay has decided to work on 1/144 Sazabi and they will be tackling this in their own way. Kamm is going for a (quote from him ) a stealth jungle, fast and quick weapon theme ..... and believe you me, he's making a terrific job on this. Decay, he's working a space themed, weathered kit. Both of them are making their own version of the Sazabi but Kamm is keeping, more or less, to the original sazabi looks while Decay is pimping out new designs like crazy. And both have agreed to finish this by the end of October.

An awesome awesome build off between the Legends of MAC. The handpainting assassin, pushing himself to scratch build VS the decaying scratch-builder, A man with great scratch building skills. With those great modelers, this build-off have no reason what-so-ever to not to be awesome. Who will you support? The hand painting assassin that have been making beautiful hand painted models OR the Decaying scratch-builder that have been making magnificent modding and scratch build to his models? 

Choose a side..........

Here is the link to the Build off thread at MAC forum - 

Kamm Vs Decay

In case you are wondering about the individual works of kamm and decay - 

Kamm's Youtube channel

Decay's blog

There you go.

Hope that was a good read for you guys. Stay Tuned for more.

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Featured Modellers Chapter 1.3: Kamm's FAZZ

Hello, dear readers. Once again, it has come to it to feature another piece of work from the Hand Painting assassin, the one and only Kamm.

This project took Kamm 4 whole months in the making and the W.I.P was one if not the most famous work in progress thread at our MAC Forums.

It would not be exaggerating to say that the modifications Kamm has done on this kit is as unique as they are original. And keeping in mind of the fact that this kit is Kamm's first take on modding a kit, this kit is very much deserving of all the praises it is getting at our forum and other places.

The rivets you see all around the kit are custom made from small pla rods and this huge behemoth is entirely hand painted.

Hand painting is, as you all know, a very very different aspect of modelling and the right technique in applying the paint to achieve perfect paint jobs is just hard as hell. As much as it is already hard to paint even the small 1/144 kit without brushstrokes, Kamm had once again proved to the world that he is a true Hand Painting Assassin.

Kamm has level has drastically improved since his last project and we can only sit and wait and see what he will cook up next, to our excitement and amusements. I am proud to feature the works of my dear friend and a value member of MAC.

Here is the before and after photo..





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Here is the two videos from the MAN it self.. 

If you want to read more about the discussion and if you want to see more pictures.... you know where to go... but here's the link to those who doesn't know .. 
http://boards.themacforums.com/topic/7486571/1/ 


Thanks for reading and STAY TUNED for more.

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Featured Modellers Chapter 1.2 - Kamm's HLJ MkII

Greetings dear readers. In this second sub-section of the chapter one of Featured Modellers, I will be featuring the one and only HLJ (Hobby Link Japan) Gundam of a dear friend of mine, the one that we from MAC know and love as Kamm.

This is a piece of work that which he is so proud of ( and obviously, the one which he keeps showing off.. LOL.. just kidding Kamm :P ) and I agreed with him being so proud of this kit. Not only this kit has superb battle damage and weathering details, but the paint is top-notch too. As usual, Kamm who loves painting model kits, painted this kit entirely by hand. I know most people won't believe this but if you look very close, there's still one or two brush stokes some where (my eye sight bad, so I couldn't really pick them out, sorry about that) and that is indeed proof that he hand painted it.

And the weathering and battle damages he did on this kit is purely amazing. It is not amazing because it looks great ( basically these are just basic battle damages and weathering) but it is amazing the way the battle damages actually turned out. He used simple and basic techniques to weather, including washes and dry bushing and he just used a power tool to make those battle damage. That's why that is amazing, using simple methods to make those effects and they turned out perfect.

Kamm is a active member of Gunpla.TV and the way he came across to this agreement to make this the offical HLJ sheme gundam is a quite an interesting one too. This is the full account of how that came by, straight from the modeler's mouth -  

'''He pmd me asking me to send pictures and a write up to them so they could feature it, next a few weeks went by. I finished my "THe-O" and uploaded that. They then asked me if I would do a tutorial on how to

battle damage/weather kits. And I said would you like me to do it in the HLJ theme. And they said yeh '''

On top of that, he got that kit for free ( lucky guy.. hate him :P ).. 

Nevertheless, it is always healthy for the eyes to see a great piece of gunpla and as a dear friend of him, I am proud to present his greatest achievement in his modelling career.

Here's the YouTube link for the finished model if you want to see more

and here's the tutorials on how he did those effects -

Link 1

Link 2

I hope you dear readers will love this gundam as much I love it. Thanks for reading and Stay Tuned.

 

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Featured Modellers Chapter 1.1 - Kamm's Strike

Hello dear reader, just wanted to share serialized featuring of the works of my friends ( mostly from MAC) and some of my idol modellers...

In this first chapter, sub section 1, I will be featuring a dear friend named Kamm. Wearing a white mask in his avatar picture and wielding a mighty paint brush in his hand, he had placed himself a consider rank in the world of senior gunpla builders.

Kamm, who only got into the hobby since 8 months ago, loves to paint models. He used to paint warhammer models and now, he has switched to gunpla. The works he has done with his paint brush and hand painting skill have been amazing. I tried my best but I can only get to 1/3 of his painting skills. His most famous work is the HLJ gundam, which I will explain in more detail in the coming posts. This post will highlight one of his kit: the Strike With I.W.S.P.

This is not exactly his first kits but as far as i know, this is his very first THAT he started sharing on forums. Personally, I hate the colour but that doesn't mean I do not like what he has done with the kit, most especially the battle damage.

Here's a number of photos of that kit.. Enjoy

Until next post, Stay tuned

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