Trying To Finish Up This Projects The Red Looks So Good I Really Really Like How This Turned Out!!!

I love how I look at Edward Elric, and what’s more my actual name is Edward!!! This was at an Otakon, and I was the only black dude cosplaying from FMA but i loved second of it 

This is a chest piece and I decided to mask off the top portion because it's going to be red like the very top portion where the jewel sits

So this is the death scythe redo the black that I put on there is a black lacquer I did the trim and the other yellow pieces in a gold the rest is just repainted with some gloss to take off the plastic look I love the way this turned out while I thought about putting decals on it the more I looked at it the more perfect it became and I decided that it was perfectly fine the way it is, o

OH! The scythe is done in a gunmetal and the backpack is done in a flat metallic

So I wanted to show what a just regular spray vs what a spray with a gloss coat looks like I feel that the diff is super clear but that is something that I get a lot of questions about

So, it's been 3 years since I've been comfortable building gunpla and for the first time in going to be building a higher grade.

I also think it's super funny because I graduated today and today I graduate to a higher grade gunpla!

So this is the result of me using a gray primer the blue turned out a little bit darker but I still am completely in love with the way it came out

This is the second step in the project!!

Wing Gundam is coming along nicely I love the way the green turned out and I will have the primer video up soon

Dear star trek community,

We are different, all of us. We come from everywhere in the world, we speak different languages but our love for trek binds us, our hope to one day see a world united drives us. Our hope that the united federation of planets will be real one day excites us. When the show talks about the federation and its principles I can see that in us. I know for a fact that if given the chance we would all make damn fine Starfleet officers.  Our community is our crew the trekkies we know, to the ones we haven’t met yet are our shipmates.

When someone says they don’t feel represented in this community I’ve seen us lift them up, to not tell them they are welcome but to show them, to help them that their differences are what make our crew the best. I know this sound corny or even crazy, but I know that all of see it. At times we don’t just watch the show we live it we break down barriers, explore new ways of thinking, to help each other in times of need, to come together to show that when people talk about the show of the future the future is in fact now (soon to be warp capable)

I say all of this because I’m proud of all of us, while I know there are people out there that want to slow us down take us back to old ways of thinking and doing things (HIGHLY ILLOGICAL!!) I am so glad to see all of us demanding to be at high warp for equity, equality, love, respect and understanding.

I want to tell the story of how I found my way into this community.

I am a science nerd because SCIENCE IS FREAKIN COOL!!!! Because of that when I lived a lot of the other kids didn’t like me and I got beat up a lot. After one rather bad black eye my mother had, had enough and took me home and let me watch TV. I can’t begin to tell you how bad I felt. I thought that I would have to give up my love for science and reading and just play basketball or football because that’s all the kids who looked like me did.

That was until I saw this show with this man in a gold uniform who looked just like me with a visor, just hearing him get excited about science and its potential, the fact that people relied on him for one of the ships pivotal functions, I knew that this was something that I wanted to be a part of, that this was me but old and on a star ship. That moment saved me, in so many ways, I’m now working on my BA in cyber security, I’m still a science geek, but it was that one moment, and the NCC-1701-D that brought me here, and all of you who got me to stay. Later I would find other heroes that didn’t know where around till later Nichelle Nichols, George Takei. However, it will always be Levar burton who will always be the one I feel closest to. (also, we share a birthday!)

Thank you all so much!

TDLR; You all are amazing, keep pushing for diversity so no more little boys like me have to feel like there is no room for geeky POCs!

Getting ready to candy my ACGUY!!!!