Gunpla from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

This is the page with the IBO plamo kits I've made! Well, kinda. For the moment. You'll see.

Graze Refit Programme

All the IBO kits. Sorry Hyakuren, you'll get your own entry at some point.

So the thing about IBO is that although I love the mechanical design in the series generally, there's one design I love more than anything else. The one grunt to rule them all. Maybe my favorite Gundam design of all time. I am, of course, talking about the Graze.

As such, I have three different Graze kits (and plan to get a full set at some point...), but they were all fairly... stock. I hadn't really done much to them, using the included stickers and not doing much detailing. But now that I'm more confident doing stuff like that, it's time for an overhaul. Currently in-progress!

A bunch of Graze parts before detailing...
...and those parts (mostly) after.

Weapons are being redone in gunmetal, while inner frame details, thrusters, and pipes are being done in silver (mostly).

Lots of Graze parts with gold detailing.
A close up on the optical sensors, along with some other stuff.

A bunch of stuff has been redone in gold paint, most notably the optical sensors (where they replace fairly unwieldy stickers).

Shoulder detail painting.
Various armor panels with decals added.

Doing the shoulder thrusters in paint (for the Schwalbe Grazes especially) looks so much better than the stickers. I'm also adding little waterslide decal details to the armor panels, trying not to go overboard (I've also replaced the 'eyes' on the Ryusei-Go with waterslides, which will look incredible).

All the re-detailed parts, waiting for finishing and reassembly.

I've pretty much done everything I can do without the matte topcoat, so now I'm just waiting for warmer, drier weather. Then I'll see if this all worked out!