黑竜号：太空探索隊 WonderFest Summer 2010

This cute little thing is among my loot in Japan Summer Wonderfest 2010. As the name, black dragon, it's originally suppsed to be black in color. I just change it to yellowish, just like an egg yolk.




Since wonderfest, I realize one thing: sometimes a person can be a fantastic sculptor, but he might not be a good recaster.
Yeah, like many of the kits I bought from Wonderfest, mostly from smaller name sculptor where they do they own casting, the kit quality isn't anywhere compared to the commercial n experienced manufacturer. Sand hole is so much until i was confused whether it is done such way purposely.

Since there r quite some space in the middle, I have decided to light up the cockpit with optical fiber. Colors of the light r just done by painting the tip with different clear color. Well, u cant see them here because I didnt take any photos. I didnt take any photo because during the photoshooting time, I think there s a short circuit n it burned the LED . I m just too lazy to make any changes....

Besides that, the main thing for me for this project, besides the optical fiber that didnt lit, is actually the color. I always wanna do a sunshine egg yolk kind of color hahahahaah.

Oh btw, ignore the decals. I just put them there for decoration while hoping nobody can recognize them. Yes, decals are from everywhere: some itasha, gundam etc.

Wood Model - 绿漪亭 Chinese Pavilion

This is another chinese company I found in taobao. Unlike most of the wood model makers, they do not do sail boats; but in fact they do buildings. More specifically, Chinese traditional buildings.

I was attracted to some of their kits, especially the bigger ones like the Qing dynasty palace and such. However, dued to the considered high price, yes my prejudice n sinful expectation of China product being low in price, I have decided to get a smaller one to give it a try first.

Overall, I find it is pretty enjoyable. Again, I realized many techniques, or i should say way of the the product design is inspired by sail boat model.

The main new thing I have first time experience is to build a model with the aid of water.

See, Chinese buildings have this curvy design. In reality, many of them are either actually being cut into the curvy shape, or being join piece by piecen create a final appearance of being curvy. However, since I am doinga simplified verysion of a scale down model, what I m given is a whole piece of wood instead of tens of separated pieces. As a result, some pieces i need to use water, make them wet, n bend them while waiting it to dry. Repeat a few times n I would get the shape i want.

sounds like some tedious work, but I must say the satisfaction of successfully bend something with great accuracy is definitely worth the work n time.

Volks Non-Scale Tetsujin 28

Ok, a cheap haul from Mndarake during one of my trips to Japan. A very simple kit, considered non movable, but the proportion is good.

For this project, basically I go for all metallic finishing. The only challenging part is to have enough silver reflection at the same time to maintain vibrant, anime-like color tone.

One thing good about silver flake is, with the right amount, the finishing naturally looks semi gloss.

Btw, thank you Kitti of 3 raccoons for the photography work.



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Some extra mood shot just for fun:

Aoshima 1/48 Techno Police 21C Road Ranger

This is one of the early kits after I have decided to take out all my long kept vintage and build them; yes, I have decided there is no point of keeping these so called vintage n let them collecting dust.

This is the road ranger, the vehicle for techno police 21c series, which frankly I was more interested in their robots than the car. However, when look at their robot kits,  i had a deep breath n put them back... hahahaha that's why, finally I have build this instead.

At least it comes with motor and i can play with it for a while XD

Think I bought it from Daya, a small mini market in ss2 pj. To my surprise, though being such an old kit, the fitting is actually quite good. The main problem, as usual, being the on/off mechanism; which I threw it away and put my own.

Other than that, is just sand, mask n spray.