Neglected Gundam

This model that I painted in college (2009) will be my inspiration for Kyrio's paint job. It has a candy orange on all the orange pieces, the white armor has a subtle shade of orange underneath and it is slightly damaged and scratched up.

In college I saw a blog post about a cockpit hatch that had a candy red paint job that looked amazing. It also had a huge scratch that showed the metal underneath. I found it fascinating that such a beautiful piece could be damaged in such an awesome way. That damage only added to the effect of the candy paint that took it from awesome to amazing.

One of the ways I am going to focus on growing during this build is to change how I did the orange undertone of the white pieces. Instead of doing every white piece in this manner. I will handpick only some pieces to show off this effect. I think doing the whole kit in this way would only take away from its presentation.