Took me around 2 Hrs to complete this little stuff.
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Astrea update 2
Some update today:
Took me around 2 Hrs to complete this little stuff.
Took me around 2 Hrs to complete this little stuff.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Astrea update 1
Did some work today, as well as tidied up the workspace it feels like the last time modelling session before school open even though there is still 2 weeks left.
Anyway here are some photos of my progress, the photos are pretty much self explanatory hence I won't do anymore explanation.
Anyway here are some photos of my progress, the photos are pretty much self explanatory hence I won't do anymore explanation.
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Friday, December 25, 2009
1/144 Astrea
After doing a number of planes and cars, I've finally restarted my gundam engine. This time I'm gonna be doing a long overdue kit, one of the reason why I didn't do it when it was 1st realeased was because I couldn't get my hands on a HG Exia kit.
After a while the Exia R2 kit came out with much better articulation. Hence I decided to use it as a base kit for this conversion.
Box Art:
Amount of parts leftover:
The parts separation is based on the degenki magazine featuring this kit.
I'll let the pics do the talking
Sharpen some parts
Added detail
Parts Separation for the head:
Overall look:
After a while the Exia R2 kit came out with much better articulation. Hence I decided to use it as a base kit for this conversion.
Box Art:
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Amount of parts leftover:
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
The parts separation is based on the degenki magazine featuring this kit.
I'll let the pics do the talking
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Sharpen some parts
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Added detail
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Parts Separation for the head:
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Overall look:
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| From 1/144 Astrea |
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
MINI affair (Part 4)
Progress has been slow the past few days, wet sanded the body parts and then procced to mask the main body so as to paint the mudguard and side skirts flat black.
Boy, was the process long and painful. This has got to be the biggest masking task I've ever done, I've never used up so much masking tape on one kit alone!
And I must say that I totally suck at masking, this is the reason why I stayed away from resin kits.
This time round things look pretty good, no visible bleeding can be seen only slight errors that have been removed by light sanding.
How things look at the moment:
It is alomst 80% complete now, I've already painted the clear parts and also futured the windows now waiting for the paint to dry and see how's the results.
All thats left to do is to polish the body and assemble everything.
Boy, was the process long and painful. This has got to be the biggest masking task I've ever done, I've never used up so much masking tape on one kit alone!
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| From Mini WIP |
And I must say that I totally suck at masking, this is the reason why I stayed away from resin kits.
This time round things look pretty good, no visible bleeding can be seen only slight errors that have been removed by light sanding.
How things look at the moment:
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| From Mini WIP |
It is alomst 80% complete now, I've already painted the clear parts and also futured the windows now waiting for the paint to dry and see how's the results.
All thats left to do is to polish the body and assemble everything.
Friday, December 11, 2009
A MINI affair (Part 3)
Did some work these few days.
Updates:
Chassis (100% complete) glued everything together
Painted the wheels:
3-4 Gloss coats on the body
Did the window trims, this time no bleeding occured. Still the process is troublesome, this is the part of car building that i dislike most, why can't every kit come with window trims...
Gonna try futuring them later and see how it turns out.
Masked and painted a union jack on the roof.
Updates:
Chassis (100% complete) glued everything together
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
Painted the wheels:
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| From Mini WIP |
3-4 Gloss coats on the body
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
Did the window trims, this time no bleeding occured. Still the process is troublesome, this is the part of car building that i dislike most, why can't every kit come with window trims...
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| From Mini WIP |
Gonna try futuring them later and see how it turns out.
Masked and painted a union jack on the roof.
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| From Mini WIP |
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Mini affair (Part 2)
In commemoration of MINI's 50th birthday and also a special year in Formula 1. I've decided to make this MINI of classic British colours. Hence I present to you:
British Racing Green:
Did more work today and here is the progress thus far.
Body (40% complete)
Not very shiny at the moment.
Chassis (60% complete)
This is the first time I painted the underside of the car, wanted to make this kit as perfect as possible.
Interior (100% complete)
Similarly, I wanted to make the interior more realisitc, hence I spent more effort masking the parts and painting different parts differnt colour. All was going quite smoothly until I flat coated it. While airbrushing the flat coat, I accidentally spilled some onto the kit it self, resulting in the specks on the seat. Futhermore, slight frosting has occured near the floor of the interior. Even though the interior cannot be seen clearly once everything has been put together, I KNOW its there!!
Everything together.
British Racing Green:
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| From Mini WIP |
Did more work today and here is the progress thus far.
Body (40% complete)
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
Not very shiny at the moment.
Chassis (60% complete)
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| From Mini WIP |
This is the first time I painted the underside of the car, wanted to make this kit as perfect as possible.
Interior (100% complete)
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
Similarly, I wanted to make the interior more realisitc, hence I spent more effort masking the parts and painting different parts differnt colour. All was going quite smoothly until I flat coated it. While airbrushing the flat coat, I accidentally spilled some onto the kit it self, resulting in the specks on the seat. Futhermore, slight frosting has occured near the floor of the interior. Even though the interior cannot be seen clearly once everything has been put together, I KNOW its there!!
Everything together.
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| From Mini WIP |
Friday, December 4, 2009
A Mini affair
Its been a long time since I updated this blog or started a new project. For this short December holiday, I think i might only be able to complete this model.
The Project: A Mini affair
The Kit: 1/72 Fujimi Mini Cooper Kit.
The Contents:
Got some reference from the mini dealer:
Sanded and test-fitted some parts:
The outer body is generally very well done. Only slight flash lines and sink marks. Good fitting of the parts too.
The interior
Despite the interior being well-fitted, I find that the flaw of this kit is rather the lack of details of the interior. There are no racing bucket seats provided despite the fact that this is the "John Cooper Works version". There are also some inaccuracies in the details which I discovered while comparing with the brochures.
Other than these points I find that its a pretty decent kit to get!
The Project: A Mini affair
The Kit: 1/72 Fujimi Mini Cooper Kit.
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| From Mini WIP |
The Contents:
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| From Mini WIP |
Got some reference from the mini dealer:
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| From Mini WIP |
Sanded and test-fitted some parts:
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| From Mini WIP |
The outer body is generally very well done. Only slight flash lines and sink marks. Good fitting of the parts too.
The interior
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| From Mini WIP |
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| From Mini WIP |
Despite the interior being well-fitted, I find that the flaw of this kit is rather the lack of details of the interior. There are no racing bucket seats provided despite the fact that this is the "John Cooper Works version". There are also some inaccuracies in the details which I discovered while comparing with the brochures.
Other than these points I find that its a pretty decent kit to get!
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