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Water based putty?

Yes, based around the Banpresto head. Here a link to twitter from a while back where I showed it in a rougher state. That little gundam bust at the bottom is the 1/100 MG Proto Wing Zero EW, if you need a reference for the size. https://twitter.com/Kiskay1/status/1505329346227101698/photo/1

Back to my 1/20ish Wing Zero bust this week, put away everything but the upper torso and have had some time refining the shapes. I'm satisfied with everything enough to move onto smoothing and detailing. The only real hangup I see is correcting my boob duct size. I was undersized and with semi-hollow shapes back filled with CA glue... it makes for interesting challenges.

But, that is the best part. CA accelerator spray will unclog any nose during allergy season. This way I can tell the misses that modeling is the medicine!

It is 1/100 reissue with new markings

Well, this is what I get for not finishing my build. Welcome!

I've got feedback, I'll take one in 1/48 scale please and thank you!

Sure the parts are large without enough reinforcement on the backside so there is warping on the 2 large nose halves. The pegs they have for the most part are extremely loose fitting and will require tape to even test fit together. Suprisingly even with the male/female pegs being so large. You have very little wiggle room if the parts are under tension. Most of my complaints stem fro. Their decision to do a multipiece cocpit on the VF-31. The front is a single clear piece but the back half is 2 clear parts, a black frame and a black bow. If you've ever had a kit with a multi piece cockpit instead of a single clear one you paint the frame on, you'll know how much a paint they can be. You slowly have to clue around the frame, which is deformed/warped and then a ton of clean up on the clear plastic. After your gaps are fixed you usually find the entire assembly no longer fits as well as the single piece option would have. Have to remember Max Factory's target isn't modelers with this line so color seperation>having to paint. Well they do have a posable, soon to be released Alto figure that may fit in one. The issue may also be that they clearly reused the vf-25f cockpit parts instead of designing new. A few extra leftover parts on the runner confirmed it. I expect the seats i. The anime are power adjustable like a car or something, but the model has the seat base moulded to the structure and the floor of the cockpit moulded to the backside of the landing gear bay! You have to remenber they use ex gear cockpits, sadly the arms don't fit into the gear and it makes her body position look way too unnatural. Compromises. Cut out and move the front of the interior forward to clear he knees. I fee the legs look perfectly angled for some pedal controls to come. I lowered the floor a little under a quarter of an inch so she didn't have to amputate/loose her feet too. Shocker after cutting the landing gear doors off to close the bay... they don't fit either. Hopefully I can get them blocked off enough so a minimal ammount of filler will be required. I have zero plans to any custom work on the exterior. Just want to detail up the insides using a few references (and some make believe.) Depending how it goes, I may try to led lighting effects, not that I'm very fond of them.

In!

Hack 'n Slash and she still doesn't fit even with 3mm out of her torso, her butt cut off amd her ponytail mia!

Mirage wasn't too bad, but wow does the nose cone leave a lot to be desire in the way of fitment and details. I really want to get her in the pilot seat. Can't build in peace these days either! Any future parts that drop off the table are GONE!

Really love scale mixing to create a complete scene! Great way to display the nose cones too!

Pretty much? I may have 2 or 3 more Wings 1/2 finished somewhere. Lol. I think your thinking of my 1/72 B-Club resculpt which was also finished and still need a base (and display case big enough) to show it off. Happy to kit bash! I got 4 model kits out of the back log basememt pile in one quick swoop! Unless I decided to remodel the old 1/60 MISA DX figure I can say I am 100% Wing'd-out! I'm not even looking to see what new resin kits exist this year. As far as the Kaizo booth. Cleanup sucked, but was swift. I imagine less work had I not left the booth full of dirty water for the better part of the month! Need to figure out a better backing for the waterfall. It gets hung up and stops flowing o. The tinies particles. Does no good without a stream to take away the paint!

Got my quick project done that I used to test out the Kaizo Waterfall Spray booth which I give a 80% passing grade. Put it through the ringer spraying enamel, laquer, acrylic laquers, acrylic clear, and 2k polyurethane clear. Build was fun and opposite of the matte finish I tend to do on everything. Now to get everything put away and cleaned up in time for next week's holiday festivities! Wing Gundam EW, a kitbash of the HiRM, MG Ver.Ka and MG Proto Zero with some light remodeling and cleanup to make it all work together. The Drei Zwerg was from a Club G kit and wasn't the best quality. I also feel like it is slightly oversized for 1/100 but, it kinda works with HiRM's oversized and stylized wings. This year I've officially built 3 kits. 1 IRL Aircraft, 1 Macross, and 1 Gundam. Maybe I should keep it rolling with a figure kit next?!? Stay tuned!

Twitter search, #WF2023夏 You can find a lot of the smaller group's offerings being shared before the show.

Yep, still getting used to her. Yes Sir's. That is a Kaizo Waterfall spraybooth (Ver2.0 large) As the name implies, they use a waterfall and a fan to do their job. The waterfall goes down the backside where the white and black graphics are. The fan is above and behind it. The water catches the solid particles and takes them to a 1.2gallon tank below the stainless shelf and the fan takes the fumes away as needed. The booth can run the systems independently or together and has built in led lighting. I'm getting to the point where I'm also painting using more polyurethane 2k paints/topcoats and moving onto some of the larger (1/35 FSS/Gunpla for example) kits I have had stashed going forward. They AFAIK are only sold through https://robotkai.com/collections/kaizo/Spray-Booth. This youtube did an indepth video review/demo here. Note his booth is missing some parts such as the clear plastic front. Speed running my Wing Kitbash to try her out before moving it upstairs to it's new home.

New toy!

Gundam SEED Freedom, Movie Jan 2024! 1st Trailer!

Pretty interesting video by MADWorks on the GFFMC WZC (Nobel color.) They looks at the work put into finishing the GFFMC and how much time is needed to recreate the finish with a model kit to determine if the price from P-Bandai matches the value.

I hadn't even opened mine to see of they updated the casting. I'm not use of I'd consider the canopy changes an inprovement or not. Why it is still a solid chunck of resin I'll never know given they did their 1/144 kits right.

Playing with this rarity before realizing it would be better to scratch-build it myself. 1/144 head on a 1-60 body and 90's funk! That endeavor... which then got me to the PC (and realizing I forgot another project I was wanting to do...) resulted in me realizing it too would be easier to scratchbuild. So yeah, nothing done. lol (sigh)

1/72 Platz Mave Yukikaze (Jam Sense Jammer) with ordinance for late June/July! Same as the previous updated (Feb 2023) Mave that included missiles but also includes fluorescent decals! https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10912815 Not new but, the Super Sylph update also seemed to fly under my radar last month. https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10918717 Also this 3d model! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/xJZk84

Slow and stead my friend.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-06-05/animeigo-to-launch-kickstarter-campaign-for-macross-ii-anime-release/.198835 "AnimEigo's Robert Woodhead announced at the Animazement event last week that AnimEigo will launch a Kickstarter campaign for its release of the Super Dimensional Fortress Macross II: The Movie original video anime (OVA) this summer. The company will reveal more details at its panel at the Otakon event, which will take place on July 28-30. Bigwest announced in July 2022 that AnimEigo would release the anime on Blu-ray Disc. Woodhead previously revealed on Twitter at that time that its release of Macross II would be an HD transfer and not an upscale."