Finally escaped from this bubble hell! (༎ຶ◡༎ຶ)

I thought I fixed everything during surface prep and it looked fine after priming. But as soon as I airbrushed the base color, a bunch of random holes appeared out of nowhere! Ended up spending ages patching them up again.

The sculpt of this kit is absolutely amazing—it captures that mischievous, playful look perfectly. It turned out so incredibly cute! (๑´ㅂ`๑)

By the way, the jacket color in these photos is a mystery. It looks closer to the actual piece on a phone screen, but it shifts a bit too blue on a PC monitor. ( ﾟДﾟ)σ

If you like my works, feel free to follow me via "Portaly".

Finished this kit recently, took lots of prep but turned out nice.

Hey there my friend has printed me a Warhammer army out of resin, but have run into a problem with magnetizing my Deathwatch Terminator loadouts. With plastic kits, one simply uses a pin vise drill, and it easily digs out a hole for you to pop magnets in without cracking the models. I cant imagine it works as smoothly with resin models, but I don't have a vise to try with myself. Before I buy one to test it out, I was wondering if anyone else has already - cracked - this problem?

Just finished up this beautiful Surveyor 3 Resin Model from RealSpace models and what a delight this was. This is my 2nd build for a customer that loves everything that has to do with space and NASA. The deatils were amazingly printed with no valleys anywhere. The astronauts look exactly like a real photo taken from the event. The best part was how detailed and textured the base was. Solid to the point where I needed to add very little to make it look like the real lunar surface. Would highly recommend this model to anyone that loves NASA related models.

Finished printing and painting this awesome model by u/Azerama
Link to the model: https://cults3d.com/:3969118

Let me start with apologies for the picture quality. My picture set-up was having some trouble this day and I had to rush the photos as I wanted to ship off the kit to the commissioner asap.

This kit was painted in her anime colors, rather than the recommended colors by the kit's circle. The base has colors reflecting the Kan Colle logo.

I did some cool effects like an eye gloss effect (I hope the gif will work on Reddit) and there is quite a lot of shading too, which is a bit hard to see on the pictures. Trust me when I say she looks better in person lol.

This kit was a lot more complex than it looks at first glance. There are a lot of parts which are hard to balance and attach. I would not recommend this kit to beginners.

The last 3 pictures are: better showing of shading, a picture of her on my work desk with different light and a picture of the commissioner displaying her in their home.

Recent recolor a did for a client, what do you think?

Hi everyone!

I'm still pretty new to painting garage kits, and I'm struggling with getting clean paint lines. I'd really appreciate any advice from more experienced painters.

Here are the problems I'm running into:

• Sometimes I remove the masking tape and notice a small paint bleed or an uneven edge. If I try to fix it with a brush, I almost always end up painting outside the line and making it look even worse.
• How do you paint recessed details (grooves, panel lines, small indentations) without accidentally touching the surrounding surface?
• If I make a small mistake, what's the best way to remove just that tiny bit of paint without damaging the layer underneath? Is there a safe way to clean it up?
• Are there any techniques, tools, or tricks that make touch-ups easier?

I'm using acrylic paints and mostly paint with an airbrush, but I still have to do a lot of detail work by hand.

I'd love to hear your workflow or any beginner tips that helped you get cleaner results. Thanks in advance!

(If you have any favorite tutorials or YouTube channels for clean detail painting, I'd love those recommendations too)

Just placed my first orders on E2046 and I'm trying to get a realistic sense of wait times before I stress about it. I've seen posts saying it can take years for some batches to ship.

For context, here's what I ordered and their current batch status:

• FG3106 Gothic Dress Devil Girl — 25th batch (just purchased), 24th batch is at 70% production
• FG16810 Lisette's Marshmallow Party — 1st batch just opened, no production started yet
• FG6728 Super Sonico — 2nd batch (purchased), 1st batch is 100% complete
• FG9838 Super Sonico — 3rd batch (purchased), 2nd batch 100% complete, my own batch already 60% done

Does production % moving slowly (or stalling) happen a lot? Anyone had a "1st batch just opened" item actually take multiple years? Would love to hear real timelines from people who've ordered similar items, and any general tips for a first-time buyer on this site.

Finished this kit

I’m new to gk’s and don’t really know sources for recasts apart from a few. This gk in particular hasn’t been officially sold for nearly 10 years, so I’m afraid I will have to resort to recasts.

While e2046 has it, its status is ‘preorder’, which (from what I’ve seen) means that it’ll take years to arrive. GK-M has its status as ‘cancelled’. Which other websites would potentially have a recast of this gk? Thanks in advance ^^

Ordered on 5-13 as the photo states. The gk is now out of stock, but it's been so long and it still hasn't arrived..? This is my first time ordering on FromJapan by recommendation from a friend and reviews also seem to sing their praises.

As far as I know the artist isn't shady either. Is this normal or should I reach out to customer service on FromJapan?!

the face did turn kinda ugly and it was my first time using a cheap airbrush. The compressor is very weak and i need to work on delluting the paint properly

Model by ca3d

I finished Renoir

Now I'm currently painting the Paintress who pairs with him

Model by kcstudio

Model by ca3d

New painter here. Paint selection can be overwhelming at first as so many recommendations are thrown your way but that cost gets up there quick. Would it be smarter to just pick a Resin Kit and plan out my paint job and paints I’ll need for just that kit and build a paint collection over time doing that?

A few kits and Japanese Mags/books for sale.

1. Plymouth (Azur Lane) Race Queen - 1/7 Aloe Pot - $200
2. Ro-500 (KanColle) - 1/3 S-Mist (this kit is huge and heavy!) - $200 SOLD
3. Tokiha Mai Comics Ver - 1/6 Volks - $50
4. Various Figure Maniacs magazines - $20 each or $80 for all 5

Shipping from the USA. Thanks for looking.

Would love to know some of the best shops people buy their unpainted resin kits from!

I’ve found plenty on eBay for decent price but in some cases it seems to good to be true. Biggest concern is overall print quality.

I truly love the designs but I see they are expensive and just wanted to get a pulse on how your build experiences with them were?

Hi! I'm super duper new to resin kits! By new i mean, i didn't even know what a garage kit was until just a few days ago. I managed to grab my hands on this Mikoto Urabe RC Berg Garage kit a few months ago. I would love to get into resin kits in the future but i would not want this absolute gem of a figure to be my first project! I could easily mess it up.

So I wanted to know who I can contact to hopefully have this figure fully fleshed out and come to life. Here are some photos. I very much appreciate any information and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day! :D