Filler

I have to say, going with the Freedom frame was a good choice. A lot of the regular armor looks like it will work quite well with the kit, though I’ll need to do some fiddling with more of the frame thanks to Freedom’s protruding elbow part as well as the knee in general. Due to Freedom being taller (18m over Deathscythe’s 16m) a few areas like the cloak and skirts will need lengthened to make it look proper, but I think I’ve got those two areas figured out. However, the back of the ankles and area where the cloak attaches to the shoulders are still areas I haven’t figured out yet. Looks like I’ll ne needing some pla-plate of reasonable thickness for these extensions.

PG Strike Freedom’s replacement parts will be here soon and then it’s back to work on the big bastard. GaiGun is catching up to me, so I really need to sit down and get cracking on the home stretch!

Kitbash is continuing.

I still need to mask and paint the blues on the skirt armor, legs, head and forearms along with the chromed orange for the GN drive strips/chest orb/mask, but this is rapidly approaching completion. Not pictured: MG ReZEL backpack parts have their white base coat, ran out of what I had mixed up and didn’t feel like doing more after painting all the parts I did earlier!

Let’s try making semi-frequent updates.

Don’t know how long this will last, but since a huge snowstorm is coming (it would seem that someone heard Z and I hating on winter) I might wind up with some time to actually work on my kits.

Still a decent amount of work left on ReZEL, the entire backpack and rifle but at least the blue is coming out nicely on it. I have to touch the crotch hook up (I’m not as bold as GaiGun to remove the whole thing) so the line doesn’t take a weird bend but so far so good.

The Astraea is finally starting to look like more than a random hodgepodge of suits though both of these projects will be stalling out as far as applying finer detail goes since I managed to run out of masking tape. Mental note: keep more of that stuff around in the future.

Dear winter,

You suck.

Still out of sorts, so I haven’t been doing much lately. V-Dash has a few pictures taken, but to be honest the kit itself is one of those that is great to work on but when it comes to posing and photos there’s only so much you can do especially if you don’t want to damage the paint or anything. I’ll try to have the page done soonish, sill.

ReZEL is coming along now, it’s time to start masking areas off to paint the blue accents and work on the backpack and weapons.

The Astraea kitbash has become a monster of it’s own. I think I’ve finally hit the point where it’s time to start puttying all the parts together and painting things. For the curious, the total sword count is 19 blades. In other gunpla news, I wound up with the RG Zaku II and MG Red Frame after going to Ohayocon this weekend…so much for not buying more kits. This must be how busterbeam feels.

The backlog never ends.

Just to give you a good idea of how far I’m behind on SHF reviews and Gunpla projects I give you these two pictures:

Gunpla backlog

Pile of SHFs.

Will I ever catch up?

Juggling act.

Progress is getting made on everything, despite mother nature’s best attempts to hold me up as much as possible.

V-Dash is coming along great. I still have all of the other weapons to build and paint, not to mention decal everything. But I think now that I have this much together I can really focus on ReZEL and the Astraea kitbash. I’m VERY pleased with how this turned out so far.

ReZEL’s parts are all prepped for priming and painting, just need to find the free time to get that done. I even have the primer mixed and ready thanks to having some Mr. Spare bottles now (another awesome purchase care of Sonar).

This thing has been tweaked a little bit and is on my list of stuff to prime at the same time as ReZEL. So far so good!

V-Dash progress+more

This is turning out wonderfully. I’m pleased with how my first airbrush project is turning out!

I’m also done painting ReZEL’s white parts and am trying to find time to start priming the outer armor parts.

I think I’m going to tweak the GN drive placement, but this is turning out alright so far too! Should be priming it soon.

WiSSP: 1/144 Kshatriya 2

Did a little more work on this, actually near done testfitting now but I’ll just make this post about the arms head and torso for now. You might notice that some parts have not been cut off the trees but this is because there are a lot of things planned for this kit and honestly, I don’t feel like doing the extra work for something that probably won’t be on the kit anyway (unless it’s for the purpose of getting the basics of the kit done).

There is really nothing interesting to say about the head. The monoeye moves, but I’m going to be replacing it anyway.

The torso is pretty wide and fairly chunky with a more MG-like construction. I’m looking forward to the trim and how well I’ll be able to handle it. I have some new ideas in mind that might yield some interesting results so we’ll see how that goes.

The arms aren’t too complex, though the way they handled the wrist cuffs is…eh to me. Having that split down the middle probably won’t look too great but then again I have been known to be wrong. The arm has a 90 degree range of movement. The biggest turnoff on this area for me is the hands, you don’t get any open are splayed hands with it. Not a huge deal since Kshatriya only has beam sabers for weapons to hold, but still.

The binders are a cakewalk, just repeat the same thing four times. On a final note…

Meet the CRABSHATRIYA.

WiSSP: 1/144 Kshatriya

Yeah, you read right. A gunpla post. Started working on this big guy tonight since I wanted to get the tedious part out of the way before anything else.

Yeah, I migrated to the floor to work on this one so I could watch some TV while working. The carpet in this room isn’t too shaggy so there’s no worry of lost parts. Anyhow, HUGE. The size of the binders (Which are easily the biggest thing on the runners for Kshatriya) kind of took me by surprise when I opened the box the first time. With all of these things extended and posed, I’m pretty sure this thing is going to have to go on the top shelf due to size alone. Of course, I fully plan on making it worthy of going up to the same shelf as Sinanju…

24 Funnels with 3 nubs each, meaning repeating the same process 72 times. All in all it took me about an hour to sand them down proper (the nice file I have for this is my new best friend) and get the binders and inner part of the binders that they attach to sanded down. Thusfar, everything is looking pretty hunky dory.

Also related to gunpla-building news, some of you may notice the new addition to the top row. It’s not a Kamen Rider page (I’m working on it), but a Commissions page! I was really slacking on getting that up, but maybe now that it’s finally there we might see some new and interesting stuff from other people.

MG Musha Mk II WiP 3 – …What? (and others!)

Well guys, we’ve started painting the armor parts! We’re a long way from being done still though, there’s a good amount of touch up work and the frame still left to do. You can even see how horrible priming the rifle went the first time!

Just like the Gundam Mk-II frame, the Musha Mk-II frame is just as poseable and outstanding. There are a few differences here and there on the legs, arms and torso but nothing that has any impact on the kit’s articulation.

Think you know what’s going on here? Maybe you should think again. The next update for this model will be to show off it’s completed form, so please keep your hands and feet inside the ride until then.

In other news, you know the PG Strike commission that I’ve been working on?

Base build: done, aside from a little fine tuning. I think I’m going to make the feet black instead of red and maybe adding some white to the torso. I’ve heard suggestions of unifying the red to all be the same color, but to be honest I’m kind of partial to the two tones of red like I am the two tones of white, it breaks the areas up a little bit. Still not done with the weapons, Aile pack, or decals. Hopefully within the month I’ll be getting that stuff so I can get back to work on this little diddy. I really like how it’s turning out so far, as does the person it’s for.

I also picked up this little guy at Colossalcon9 on a whim and built it in the same night. I love this little bugger and you can bet I’ll be giving him a hell of a paintjob and two more buddies to pose with once I’m a little more free up on my time and money. I highly recommend this thing though.

A friend of mine finished his first MG after a rather harsh run-in with the old Gouf Custom MG, and the end result was much better this time around. We’ve got big things planned for this, but for now it’s a good first project. But we’ll end on something that’s bound to be good for a laugh or two…

All glory to the ReZELtank!