What the bench is building
Builds in progress, finished pieces, and the problems in between. Follow the people whose work you want to keep seeing.
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Technique] Lacquer, enamel, acrylic, and choosing paint to suit PS, ABS, PE and PC
Buying paint, the first thing you look at is the colour name. The first thing to look at is the type. The same grey behaves differently as a lacquer, an enamel or a water-based acr...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Technique] Panel lining: Gundam Markers, enamel washes, and the ABS warning
Panel lining means putting a dark colour into the recesses already cut into the sculpt, to make a shadow. You are not drawing detail that was not there; you are making detail that...
+1komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Technique] Starting to paint: brush, rattle can or airbrush first
Modern kits come close to their show colours unpainted. People still start painting, and usually for one reason: a colour has come up that assembly alone will not give them. The gr...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Technique] RG Realistic Decals are stickers, not waterslides
If you ever stopped yourself halfway to dunking an RG kit's Realistic Decals in water, you stopped in time. The name says decal, but they are not waterslides. They lift off a backi...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026[Technique] Reading the writing on a runner: part letters, the ABS mark, and the moulding date
A runner carries more than parts. The tag along its edge has the product name, the material and when it was made stamped into it. Information that is not in the instructions is her...
komplete_assembly· Sep 27, 2026Why gates leave marks, and where to cut
Open the box and what comes out is not a finished robot but a set of flat frames. The parts are attached to plastic frames called runners, and the quality of the finished thing sta...
