Papa Rat

Just need to add the black paint layers, decals, and some small hand painted touch ups. I modified the way the legs attach behind the intakes by building up a severe angle”wedge” of pla to give it more of a wide angled stance. Hope it works out.

The ARII Gerwalk VF-1S is coming along. I got some pre shade paint down on a few parts and building up some details with pla etc… I’m very excited for this hunk of junk hahaha

Hahahaha. Perfect post! Love the bright scheme.

Finally! I have been wanting this big boy for a while now and it showed up today from PBandai. Got a couple kits I need to deal with before this but very excited to rip into it. Also seeing it’s Bandai means it will probably require so much less than all the old kits I have been working on. It will build itself lol

@electric indigo wow!

A thing of beauty! Thanks for sharing.

Some Wolf and Cub cosplay. Nice

The “baked in” lighting effect painting works really well. ♥️

@pengbuzz excited to see the shuttle given some love. @Big s it’s hard to photograph on my crappy phone but adding a brown oil wash over the kit really melded all the colors in a nice way. Subtle, but nice.

Looks great!

@Chas Wow, that looks great! It came with tiny Valkyries and monster? That’s so cool. What you working on next?

Yeah, I want to grab a couple tubes of oils and mess around with washes.

@woodsider Thanks. I’m having a blast. These are the next two on the bench.

Little buddy says hi. I think it came out ok. Pretty much a straight build. I think it needs some weathering.

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I’m so sorry to hear about your situation. That’s horrible. I hope things change for you and your family. ♥️

IMAI Orguss Gerwalk is on the final stretch. Hope to finish by the weekend. Just have a couple more paint layers, decals, wash and topcoat. Going ok for the most part. Love the tiny pilot 🤣

Finally found some old poly caps that fit the gunpla hands I want to use on the ARII super Gerwalk. Slapped them in with some milliput and will cover with some pla later. Also cut sections off a runner to make some generic “verniers”. More like tubes I suppose lol. They are rough looking and will need to be trimmed down and shaped a little bit once glue cures. Excited to add some details to this tiny old kit.

Awesome! Congrats on breaking in the new and improved space. Feels good

I have the Iwata lube and it will last more than a lifetime. It did the trick and recommend it. That being said I haven’t tried anything else for comparison. Best of luck. @nightmareB4macross Love all the fun detail bits in there. More more!

Brilliant idea! 👍

@MechTech Time flys that’s for sure. Having a clear cockpit immediately reminds me of Wonder Woman’s invisible Jet. lol. Just imagine seeing a person flying through the sky in a seated position cracks me up. Anyway, thanks for the input on the Monster. I l have been trying to find some ball joints etc…and like you mentioned, they appear to be sold out. The hunt continues.

My first attempt at some UV resin casting. I needed a duplicate cockpit so here goes nothing. I used this reusable mold clay stuff that softens in hot water. Pressed the piece into the clay and let it cool. Then it’s as easy as adding liquid resin and hit it with a UV light for a few minutes. Really easy to work with. After casting I just need to do some clean up and I’m good to go.

Makes sense. I’ll give it a go when it’s time to finish this up.

Have you messed with super glue to build up those friction areas? I imagine once a pose is established I will leave it be for the most part.