Zaoworkshop Oracle 神谕

 This is one beautiful, and HUGE kit!. By Zaoworkshop.

This is a kit extremely hard to get right in photography. 

In real, the kit is damn huge and solid for an 1/100 kit. In addition to it, the full metal frame makes it really heavy and enjoyable to hold. Although it can be transform into a plane-like form, I didnt even bother to try that as the mecha form is so satisfying to look at.

Same as other un-painted projects, I have not painted this kit at all, besides just an overall flat coat on it. So in short I have just done the pretty basic steps of modeling, like cleaning the nub mark, panel line inking, decals. The extra part i did was adding metal transfer rivets and some metal parts, like metal thrusters.

Nothing much to say for the workmanship, but more to the good design n engineering of the kit. China kits are getting pretty good n value for money.

Chiikawa Group Build

 This is a group build with KY; a cute resin figure he gave to me :) As usual photos first:

This is KY's work for the group build: a MC Donald's worker

Overall, the build is pretty straight forward: they r very simple kits with minimal assemble required. Also for the shape of the character, the figure is very stable n do not need much reinforcement. Details are pretty sharp too. Some bubbles r spotted but it is no surprise when working with a garage kit. 

The more surprising is how Ky n i had given almost zero F*ck about them. Hahahaha. Afterall, not so visible in photo, aint them?

卓匠 x 将魂姬 2025 Lion Dance Group Build

 End of 2024, when we first got the kit, we were joking about having a GB for the coming 2025 Chinese new year. However dued to our notorious reputation of not finishing GB, we d decided to  amke it all stress free GB ever: no painting, no fundamental work, not any std scale modeling stuff require GB.

Honestly I was solely hoping to rely on individual's pride of being a scale modeler to add some personal touch on his own kit; as it's a requirement to post the completed kit online. Of course, this also carries the risk of aiming high but giving up in the end.

Anyway, here's my entry for the group build:

I have decided to build a maintenance base for the lion dance. Afterall, it is a mecha version n i would love to enhance it. The lion head , same 99% is unpainted, except one part in the mouth which original plastic color s white n i changed it to Chrome silver.

As for the base, mainly using leftover gray with black surfacer as base.

This round i played with an subject i really love: wires. 

Overall experience: Happy!  Gong Xi Fatt Cai!