This is the result of brush-painting Acrylion diluted with clear paint over silver. I'm happy with the progress, as the base coat is starting to show through, but the next challenges are controlling brush strokes and realizing that painting the runners causes problems with the gate areas, so I need to cut them off before painting. I'll consider this the first stage complete.

Thank you to everyone who gave advice and comments. Next, I'll try it on an actual Gundam model!

The Road to Candy | rascaltaro's Gunpla works