Do Bandai GUNPLAs need to be painted? A sticker about the Bandai GUNPLA

If you are a novice, it is recommended not to paint or spray at first, unless the landlord is an art professional and has been using a pen such as a hook and a wolf for a long time. Most of the novices will be unstable and trembling when holding the pen, and it will be more troublesome once it is painted, and the painting involves many considerations, such as the quality and performance of the spray gun, how well the ventilation of the painting place is and so on. Novice assemblers generally need to prepare:

Model scissors (nail scissors can be used instead), model carving knife, sandpaper (800-1200 mesh, you can also use the kind of nail grinding block used for nail art instead), model special glue (not recommended for novices to use 502, corrosive, poor control of the amount will overflow and destroy the surface of other places), hook pen, tweezers (if you are ingenious, this thing will only be used when coloring). If you plan to paint, you must have: spray guns, pumps, palettes, paints, face reading pens (also known as white drawing pencils in China, the smallest kind), masks, rubber gloves, and lacquer filler (scraping a very thin layer of filler on the model can strengthen the adhesion ability of the paint, and it is not easy to peel off the paint.)

Can be replaced with putty, but this thing is toxic), polishing matting paint. If you pursue a higher metallic effect, you can choose to spray a layer of dilution with banana water + polyamplein after spraying the polished matting paint (you can achieve the same feeling as a layer of transparent paint on the surface, just like the car shell), or you can paste gold and silver aluminum in some parts, and then paint (simulating the real metal texture).

Agree with LS that the prime group can be supplemented with a marker pen in a small area.

Look at my personal favorite, okay, I'm a spraying party, and the novice or the vegetarian group will do it slowly.

In Bandai's model kits, the HG kit generally only has stickers for color patching, and everyone who plays with this sticker knows how to use it, so I won't talk nonsense. The second is the RG kit, which only comes with ordinary realistic stickers, and some realistic stickers with gold and silver foil, like Strike and Freedom Gundam, this kind of sticker doesn't need to be said, and the landlord also knows. The point is that there are three kinds of stickers in the MG kit, the first two are for complementary colors and realistic stickers, and the third is the transfer sticker for the landlord's headache, which we generally call it transfer sticker.

This kind of sticker is to transfer the pattern on the sticker on the parts through a certain pressure, but after the transfer is finished, do not scratch it, because it is transferred and can be scraped off, so after all the transfer of this sticker is completed, it is recommended to protect the spray paint, which is the protection method of the transfer paper. As for how to use it, it is relatively simple. First of all, the pattern that needs to be transferred is cut off with a pen knife or scissors, and then, the protective film of this part of the pattern is peeled off, and the pattern is placed in the position where you need to transfer, and then the transparent tape or the special covering tape for the model is adjusted with the pattern to paste it on the part, and then use a sleek thing, like the part similar to the end of the pen barrel, to press the surface of the pattern several times from beginning to end, confirm that the transfer is almost done, slowly tear the tape, and the transfer paste is on the top of the part; If you find that there is still no transfer, carefully attach the tape back and continue to press hard.

The printed paper should be scratched and pasted, and after cutting it out, remove the bottom paper, press the one with the pattern in the place where you want to print it, and hang it back and forth with your nails or something.

It's called a water sticker, and it's going to get water, and then it's going to absorb water with a paper towel, and then it's going to be put on!

What is often attached to Bandai is generally transfer stickers and adhesive stickers.

The landlord will definitely use it, but the transparent adhesive sticker generally needs to be flaid, that is, cut off the part that is not a pattern, otherwise it will affect the effect.

Another kind of transfer sticker requires you to cut out the sticker and fix it in the place where it needs to be pasted, and then use a toothpick and other pointed hard objects (you can't use a very sharp and hard scrape) to trace back and forth along the sticker several times, so that all the stickers are glued from the film to the model.

It is very troublesome to use the transfer sticker, and it may not be able to be glued well, you need to scrape hard, and it feels like the pattern has been separated from the sticker, so you can try it with the Bandai logo above.

If the landlord buys a special edition and Xin'anzhou, it also comes with a water sticker, which is sticky after being dipped in water, and can be pasted in various places, which is very convenient; The water stickers they come with are all gold patterns, and the landlord can tell the difference.

In addition, domestic models generally give water stickers.

Basically, there are three types of GUNPLA stickers.

Transparent material, bottomless, with white separator paper for scratch or transfer paste transparent material, with blue or green background for glue.

Blue background Yellow background with white separator paper is a water sticker.

Specific usage: Scrape and paste the required pattern or cut it with a pen knife, and then use scotch tape to stick it to the correct position, scratch it with a tool or fingernail, and hang it until the pattern becomes deeper, remove the tape paper on one side to confirm whether the pattern is well glued to the model, if not, then glue it and continue to hang.

The size of some parts of the adhesive tape may not fit the model well, so you need to cut or paste it first when pasting, and then use a pen knife to stick to the edge of the model to cut off the corners.

After the water paste is generally immersed in warm water, the pattern will be separated from the bottom paper, and then use tweezers or cotton swabs to move the pattern to the corresponding position of the model. However, the water patch may fall off after the water dries due to insufficient glue or some other reasons, so you need to prepare a little glue and water paste softener.

GUNPLA making, Bandai MG card version of Gundam Cow (sticker), with how to use the water sticker.