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Happy Honey is a bit hyperactive today and has been playing tennis under the bright sun for the past 3 hours! No wonder she's all sweaty and was unaware of the fan service she's providing ^_^;;


Peekaboo! Lacy pantsu!


The gold pearls works extremely well on these "blondes". Another modification I did was replace the tennis rack wiring with my own mesh.
Being a generous heroin she's willing to sign fan photos :)


The bra outline & wires were done with the usual smoothed putty method. Just like Anna Kounikova :D To make them more visible, I lightly sand the top violet overcoat so that the wired/raised areas are more transparent. Not-so-subtle product placement is also visible :)


The sweat drops are almost impossible to capture and they tend to disappear after I shrink down the images. The hearts on her neck and arm turned out nicely tho.

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Introduction

Scale
1/5.5
Sculptor
Workshop Kobashi
Maker
Kurushima
Completed
1/6/02
Parts
13
Retail
15000yen

IMO, this is one of the best rendition of untransformed Honey. Her face is very nicely sculpted, but there's something about her innocuous expression that makes the fan service cute!
Her outfit was modeled after my research (ahem) on Anna Kounikova's ^_^;; It's assumed that she played for hours on the court under bright sunlight so she's sweating like an angel, giving me an excuse to try the wet effect for sweat. I don't expect it to be very realistic since real people sweat are less visible, but I hope it's at least somewhat convincing. How about something like "anime sweat" :)

 

 

Kit Review

Seam lines: 4/5   Pinholes: 5/5   Casting: 5/5   Fit:4/5   Part Break: 5/5   Help

Excellent quality as always from Kurushima, and I don't recall seeing any pinholes. However her arms didn't really fit perfectly into the sockets. Another complaint is the way they did the tennis racket wiring. It sucks! The kit comes with these stupid transparent plastic cards with grids on them and you're supposed to cut an oval out. No thanks, the grids are way too coarse and the rack would look stupid when the card reflects light! I replaced them with aluminum mesh and it's more realistic, not to mention easier to install.

 

Building

In some sense this kit is almost a summary of the technique I played with recently, including the sweat/droplet effect, laces on panty, bra wiring etc.

The sweat required more restraints than Rei's wet effect, and since I almost always overdo places, I found the best way to remove the droplet you don't want is to wait for them to dry, and simply chip them away. Also, the skin was done with flat paint but I polished it a little to get some shine out of it to simulate wet skin while not getting the dreaded glossy skin.

The bra wiring/outline were done with lumps of Mr. dissolved putty. I like this new product from Gunze quite a lot, but it takes a while to harden when lumped on. It was hard to achieve a differential highlight for the raised bra wires, so I lightly sanded the violet overcoat to make these white raised part more obvious.

As mentioned I replaced the racket wiring with meshes. I also used color shifting paint (purple/gold) for the racket itself, but as usual they're hard to capture with my DC.



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