### Metadata ![[e21748d3a74ceb05653c5748b491d66b_MD5.jpg]] - **Figure:** Zero (with ball joints - Mega Man) [E2046.com - Zero (Mega Man , FG10359)](https://www.e2046.com/p/27192/&title=mega-man-zero) - **Completed:** April 2024 - **Focus:** Try a kit with ball joints that should be adjustable - **Hours Spent:** ? ## Intro See [[Zero WIP]] for some struggles. Not going to spend too much time writing this as I'm ready to move on. This kit was kind of a nightmare and I'm ready to get it out of my mind. I had high hopes and excitement starting off - a kit with ball joints. I could pose it, something different than most of my other resin kits. Oh, it didn't come with ball joints and they are super hard to find and have different styles/sizes/etc. on top of that. Because of the ball joints, and a fair amount of parts, this kit was hard to build. In the end, it's basically a static kit. I'm not sure any joints move anymore after actually putting it together with glue and trying to get it to not fall over. I think the neck ball joint would work and head could move, until I had to attach the hair which has nowhere to attach well to on the head so I also had to glue it to the back shoulders as well as the head - rendering the neck joint useless. Also, the only joint I had that I could make work was too large, so the neck is unusually long. This really ruins the look as well. You can tell as the kit went on I got lazier and spent less time on it. I think my base paint job is good - Alclad and solid colors. However, when I tried to add some detail colors here and there i just pulled out the brush and didn't want to mask. I did some pretty quick rounds on it (the more pinker tones, whites) and moved on. In the end, the details look pretty rough. **I will give myself a little credit actually - I didn't feel like I was rushing the brushed paint jobs when I was actually brushing. The camera obviously brings out flaws a lot more as well. However, it's clear that if I masked and airbrushed more, it certainly would have looked a lot better.** ## Photos [[6b669fd07a1e2bb27ba5c64e945593b0_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4304.jpg]] ![[6b669fd07a1e2bb27ba5c64e945593b0_MD5.jpg]] [[4be60892bf3ca2f012114eebfbb6c215_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4305.jpg]] ![[4be60892bf3ca2f012114eebfbb6c215_MD5.jpg]] [[bdcb46d70066d5addb1e6969ded23c39_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4306.jpg]] ![[bdcb46d70066d5addb1e6969ded23c39_MD5.jpg]] [[259ed6ec38e01f5b0e977d187086451e_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4307.jpg]] ![[259ed6ec38e01f5b0e977d187086451e_MD5.jpg]] [[e21748d3a74ceb05653c5748b491d66b_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4308.jpg]] ![[e21748d3a74ceb05653c5748b491d66b_MD5.jpg]] [[8c77d780b2ddc625d0deb4987b25ddf3_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4309.jpg]] ![[8c77d780b2ddc625d0deb4987b25ddf3_MD5.jpg]] [[490f345d700173b07286328052c7268f_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4310.jpg]] ![[490f345d700173b07286328052c7268f_MD5.jpg]] [[80b1d65ac58195c07372d80259d8c4af_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4311.jpg]] ![[80b1d65ac58195c07372d80259d8c4af_MD5.jpg]] [[203e6f94ddefed5d6304ba0166a87005_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4312.jpg]] ![[203e6f94ddefed5d6304ba0166a87005_MD5.jpg]] [[6a35ca391e527113465808b1c2706e89_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4313.jpg]] ![[6a35ca391e527113465808b1c2706e89_MD5.jpg]] [[e4789ff508333a44330174bf297df075_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4314.jpg]] ![[e4789ff508333a44330174bf297df075_MD5.jpg]] [[5d673f501e8f96ce1748e1245896fab2_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4315.jpg]] ![[5d673f501e8f96ce1748e1245896fab2_MD5.jpg]] [[bf7c713c28d6fce935ba82fd5022830c_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4316.jpg]] ![[bf7c713c28d6fce935ba82fd5022830c_MD5.jpg]] [[3d3452c8af28862774c5ec6e20f146ee_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4317.jpg]] ![[3d3452c8af28862774c5ec6e20f146ee_MD5.jpg]] [[5f9412e8afdf773ff649964af05c9185_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4318.jpg]] ![[5f9412e8afdf773ff649964af05c9185_MD5.jpg]] [[b212b90ae9cee7e400985e31992e8fe7_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4319.jpg]] ![[b212b90ae9cee7e400985e31992e8fe7_MD5.jpg]] [[f7f910acfa790904b9b1a193ebce167d_MD5.jpg|Open: IMG_4320.jpg]] ![[f7f910acfa790904b9b1a193ebce167d_MD5.jpg]] ## Lessons Learned - **Never Build a Kit With Ball Joints:** Enough said. I don't think I have the desire to do this again. If I ever do, the kit needs to come with the exact ball joints I need and I need to really really love the kit and have a reason to do it. - **Airbrush is a better paint job:** I keep going back and forth on should I airbrush more or less. Over the past few kits, I am starting to acknowledge again that airbrushed kits really do have a better paint job. Smooth, consistent, etc....even when using wet palette. Now, I have some great results using a brush such as [[Model Site/Figures/14 - Tifa Lockhart/Tifa Lockhart|Tifa Lockhart]] but these past few kits I feel like 75% of what I hand brushed I regret and think "I should have used the airbrush for better results on that". I need to figure out what the difference is - why it worked pretty well on Tifa but on other kits like this one I just don't like the results. Maybe I've just gotten worse at painting. That could very well be it as I spend less time doing it.