June 23, 2007 on 4:31 pm | In WIP, Works, Models
My usually busy June has kept me silent since I finished Cammy, but I’ve worked on and off on this Azumanga Daioh’s Kagura-san in school swimsuit, trying to finish her up in time for summer. Here she is…
The kit was a lot of fun to build - tried a few new interesting techniques, but none very difficult, and the outcomes are quite satisfactory. What more can a modeler asks for 
By the way, a reminder that the GK Japan modeling contest deadline is fast approaching (8/31!), unless you’re an incredibly fast builder, stop procastinating! 
June 3, 2007 on 4:26 pm | In Cammy2, WIP, Works, Models
Finally finished up the rest of the detailing for her. I made some last ditch effort to shorten her beret and see if I could have her hold it, but it just didn’t look as good if she didn’t. Ah well. At least I think I managed to put it together with the boots without making the trio look too crowded.
Boy she’s another kit that felt like it takes forever~~~~
For Cammy I made a few choices I don’t usually make, like having her eyes staring straight. Usually I find eyes staring sideways give the figure more intensity; but in this case, I’d like the figure to be viewable from both the front and the back, so I had to compromise by the middle stare. Clickity click the pic below to visit her gallery.
Some stuff I didn’t mention during the WIP… Her hair pieces are cast in clear resin which is nice, but is rather hard to take advantage of. In fact I wish there weren’t in clear so that I didn’t have to pressure myself to make the braids transparent Anyway I learned lessons such as “don’t do a wash on clear parts with oil” and “don’t do a wash on clear parts with regularly thinned clear paint” 
I eventually washed them with very thin clear, otherwise the pieces will look a bit dirty. After a thin layer of base color with drybrushed interference gold, I think I managed to preserver a little bit of the translucency of the braids.
Although I didn’t use the blonde eyebrows I bought for her eyebrows, I found them extremely good as stray hair 
The single bang she had is a bit weird on a real type figure; it might have worked better in her Shadowloo uniform because of the cap? Anyway may be I should’ve installed a second stray bang that’s usually visible in her character pics, but I think the stray hair works ok in making the bang less weird. As to why I didn’t use blond eyebrows… they’re actually quite hard to spot, and may end up making her look eyebrowless
February 20, 2007 on 9:37 am | In Works, Models
Finished the second of my batch of 3 figures, the modified Asuka Langley from Gainax’s hentai majong game, sculpted by Ryujin. It’s a bit too graphic so no direct link here, you can find the kit from the Hentai Gallery.
February 7, 2007 on 12:48 pm | In Works, Models
She’s the first finish of the batch of 3 kits I’ve been working on in parallel. I’m surprised I saw the project through without dropping it Perhaps it’s the magical allure of Cerberus Project kit that got me through. Anyway it was a chore to take pics of her with her armor on and off. I’ve relegated the armor-off frontal shots to the thumbnail gallery, so I guess it’s *relatively* work-safe
I’ve added a link to the GK Japan contest that I’m guest-judging on the sidebar. The deadline is 8/31, so you’d have plenty of time to get your work ready.
January 15, 2007 on 4:04 pm | In Works, Models
A kit I tried motivating myself to finish by Christmas but wasn’t remotely successful. But at least I could get her finished now without procastinating further 
Got enough of a push to finish up after figuring out I did have more than 10 0.02 drill bits for the bubbles’ brass pins, I present to you Lilith in Bubbles~~~~
This kit surely looks like a mess in thumbnails 
By the way I mentioned I was working out a scheme for a mermaid kit in the write up… if anyone has an Ariel to dispose of, let me know
And OMG I built about 6-7 kits last year, but already 3 kits in the first week of 2007? What’s up with that
Edit 01/17: I’ve retaken the pics… boy I wish I don’t have to do that all the time 
The bubbles caught reflections from the light sources, so anything weird will show up. On the left below is the old one; I was using a soft lighting setup with the flash shooting into an umbrella and away from the kit, which gives nice soft lighting, but then you see the shadow of the flash in the middle of the light ring (the light patch at center of the pic, slightly to the right). That can’t be good. So instead I change the flash to shoot into the umbrella at Lilith, which gives a better reflection (diffused circle) on the right pic below… if you look carefully you can see the arms of the umbrella
January 10, 2007 on 12:27 am | In Works, Models
Finally done with this turkey I’ve worked on and off for the past 3 months - the nekokoneko plane VF-OS! I felt relieved that it’s finished, since the Ghost module has so many breakable parts that makes it dangerous to move around.
November 26, 2006 on 11:57 pm | In Works, Models
Took me a while to take pics of the little guy, but it was worth it. I’ve also finished a Destiny and waiting to take some pics. This site is beginning to turn into to a gunpla site
November 23, 2006 on 10:28 pm | In Works, Models
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope everyone has their juicy turkey. Having gotten my Thanks from Alien Bees, I’ve been having a good time taking pics. I’m hoping to finish up a few kits I’ve been working on for a while this long hoilday, and the first one is the YF-19 I’ve been working on for the last 5 months on and off.
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