Recreating Gundam Box Art With Gundam Models

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Gundam models have excellent box art. Twitter user Cody has brought classic mecha art to life with a three-dimensional plastic model.

The result is very impressive—and the painting alone took 15 hours.

As you can see Cody painted the model to resemble the flat box art.

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Cody has done other pieces that, likewise, are recreations of art using models.

Follow Cody here for more excellent model paint jobs!

Brian Ashcraft

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Originally from Texas, Ashcraft has called Osaka home since 2001. He has authored six books, including most recently, The Japanese Sake Bible.

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AdventurePig

9/01/20 12:39PM

Makes me feel even worse about my complete lack of painting skills. Awesome work!