I will be hitting you up when your extras come in.

Sure, no problem. Just PM when the time comes.

I got off my lazy butt and finally painted up GekiGorilla this past weekend. You don't even need to be a good painter to make MiniPla kits look amazing. I'm pretty sloppy with my lines and use too big of a brush.
The Gekiranger sets get the added bonus of all the extra articulation that MiniPla affords. The DX toys were the only time that Super Sentai toy blockiness really got to me.

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And the final goal, the whole reason I decided to collect these sets: GekiRinBatFire!
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Only decals I kept: The sides of GekiFire's helmet (because they were tiny flames) and the chest fire decals (because they had a gradient)

haha that looks good

I did not know you could put rin lion and rin chamelion on that thing! Thats awsome!

You can only do this combination with the MiniPla version. The main of the Rin Lion can spin around and has extra pegs that go into extra holes in MiniPla GekiFire's chest plate.

Rin Chameleon can be held like a pistol, or be plugged onto one of the large posts coming off of GekiFire's forearms. I chose pistol as to not scrape the black paint off of the post.

Nice, how long did it take you to hand paint the whole thing, and did you paint straight from the bottle or thin it?

I find airbrushing faster but it is a pain to mask such small areas and Tamiya acrylics, my main paint, are annoying to thin properly and layer for hand-brushing.

I'm pretty simple in my painting. I use only Tamiya acrylics and hand brush straight from the bottle. But that's the process I mainly use for Super Sentai MiniPla. Next I'm gonna work on D-Style GaoFaiGar and plan to only paint the colors that are missing, flat-coat the whole thing, and pen some panel details.

As for time? An hour or 2 per kit/box. Ample downtime if I have to do multiple coats like with the yellow on GekiPenguin or the reds and oranges on GekiGorilla. When I did ShinkenOh in the past, it was much more straight-forward.

That's a great job done for only an hour or 2 per kit. I'm much too cautious sometimes on casual kits and end up taking about 2 hours per box or more depending on how much details need to be painted in, I usually leave the solid main colors alone unless it is completely off.

Your plan for the GaoFaiGar is what I usually do for more complicated or too simple kits that would take too much time to prime and paint over the entire thing, like minipla and Kotobukiya Hresvelgr (nightmare to mask...). Though depending on what type of ink you are using for panel lines I would recommend doing it under and not on top of the flat coat.

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