Introduction Scale 1/6 Sculptor Bangle Maker Akagiya Completed 3/5/00 Parts 8 Retail 7000yen This is a reissued kit from Akagiya, one of the earlier Bangle kits. As such, it doesn't look as great as his later works, her head is a little too big, her body too angular. But still it's a pretty good H-kit, and her face is too cute, especially her lips. But she did seem a little out of place when put among the other Bangle sculpts.   Kit Review Seam lines: ?/5   Pinholes: ?/5   Casting: ?/5   Fit: ?/5   Part Break: ?/5   Help Mostly well casted, but has lots of pinholes concentrated in upper left hip and hair top. Took a while to get rid of them.   Building I finished this kit a long time ago, but my work weren't that good, and I applied too much epoxy and messed up. I also didn't like the placement of the arms, so I stripped the kit and sawed off the arms at the elbows. Then it went into a dormant state for 11 months until recently :) The arms were at right angles to each other, I thought that was too rigid, and hid her back which I kinda like. But after messing around with different angles for a while, I settled with only a slight change of angles to reduce the rigidity of the pose. I also lost the front hair piece and a neck gear, but they aren't really necessary so I didn't bother finding them. I tried a new skintone strategy this time, since with my previous strategy of relying on the white base coat is troublesome if I made a mistake, which I have to reprime with white and start over. Repriming doesn't always work either... this time I base coat with a light version of the skin tone, and then brush in the deeper skintone. I think it reduces the contrast and a less vibrant skintone, so I don't know if I wanna stick with this approach. Since the contrast is low, I needed to do a bit of oil brushing to spice things up. Applying oil with a naples yellow and burnt umber mix into grooves gives a suitable color for body folds, such as between the thighs and body and the underside of the breasts. Somtimes these grooves are not deep enough, plus your airbrush couldn't get the spray into these grooves. That results in the groove reflecting color and looks wrong. I don't quite like the look of using a wash on these groove, they just look out of place most of the time.