The painting involved priming, a black gloss enamel base coat, an even coating of Alclad II Chrome once the enamel had fully cured, and then it was topped with the Clear Colours of choice (either orange, red or green).
All of the power conduits were removed and replaced with springs (on the backs of the legs), piping and springs (on the waist and face) or nothing at all (backs of the arms). Adler's Nest brand armour spikes were added to the shoulder armour, with the spikes painted with clear red and the collars left chrome silver.
The rear thrusters were replaced with Aluminium ones, and all the small thrusters were drilled out and IC pins were mounted in them.
Decals, from Samuel Decals, were added to various parts of the kit and, best of all, metal transfers from Akocreations were used in place of beads.
To finish up, I salvaged an old circuit board from a DVD drive and mounted the kit on it with some brass rod and CA glue.
More at : http://www.ghostofzeon.com/complete/marasai/complete.html
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Snowy Mountain Models is right in front of my door step (lol, I feel like an idiot). Thanks for that plus I have a few clear paints from Tamiya which is good news. whats the next project?
Thanks Alan! I got the Alclad when I was at Model Expo from the vendor 'Early Model Kits'. He is located in Melbourne somewhere, otherwise you can get it from Snowy Mountain Models. Do a Google search and see how you go.
Were did you get Alclad Chrome paint plus what brand of clear paint? I really like to do this to my gold Sumo. Plus awesome Marasai, really turned out great like again can't wait to see this in person...
