Next Gunpla to build - HG MS-09 Rick / MS-09R Rick Dom -

Newest 1/144 scale HGUC i received yesterday, the sweet looking Dom or Rick Dom. Hopefully i'll be able to build this sweet looking mecha up during the evening the week. Still got other gunpla to build butitching to get started on this beauty.

Think this is such a awesome looking one-eyed zeon suit, would be my personal favorite suit from the entire Universal centruy, Zaku and nearly any suit in the 08th Team would feature next.

Ian

Blue 1/144 Eta-2 Jedi Starfighter Wip 2, all painting complete.

All the basic paint work now done, the blue paneling, weapons and engines all finished.

Still need to apply decals, panels lines and a little weathering.

Re-painted the 3 go-fast stripes at the rear a few times, then more the a few times to get them perfect perfect.

Ian

Star Wars Obi-wan's 1/144 Blue Eta-2 Jedi Starfighter Wip

Been very busy over the holiday period and did'nt get much done in the way of modeling but eveything a back to normal until the crazy period again next year.

Really like these tiny F-toys Eta-2 star-fighter, nice amount if detail for somethng so small. But not too keen on the grey paint, prefer the silver that ive seen other model painted in.

Plan on doing 26 differnet colour schemes for the Eta-2 and the first and my favorite clour id the blue one Obi-wan uses when he searches for General Greivous on Utapau.

First thing i did was glue the s-foils down and remove any flash from the molding.



Then i repaint the entire fighter in a dark silver.



Heres what i think was the hardest part, painting the super small R2 unit in a gold bronze deco.



The silver is still kind of tacky, going to leave it a few day to really dry before painting anything more. Should have left the R2 unit until the silver was really dry because in keep leaving figure prints on the model which are the same size as it.

Ian

Revell 1/144 - F-14A Tomcat "Jolly Rogers" - Completed

6 month after buying the revell tomcat its finaly complete. One very long build as i keep getting distracted by other models i want to build which also means i got a very large collection of models that need to work.



Really very happy with the way its turned out, know there alot more that i could again which i will do when i start another f-14 build next year.



Full weapons load which came with the kit.





Love how the wash brings out all the panel lines.





The Jolly Roger.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!! Joy and good will to all.

For the first time i get to have a white Christmas, just like on the Christmas cards.



Peace

Star Wars The Clone Wars - Commander Gree -

Picked up a new clone commander from my local supermarket surprisingly, noticed that the shop had a new toy section and being geeky like i am i went and had a look to see what they had. Caught my attention was the excellent selection of star wars figures. When ever ive been to Toy-R-Us all the good star wars figures have all gone but at the supermarket they had all the good ones,sweet.



Went ahead and picked up Gree to add to the my clone Commanders Cody and Rex. Would have bought R2-D2 and C-3PO but i think they were releashed last year so no longer sent to shops. After i left the store and returned home i regretted not buying the Jawas, OT goodness.



Quality little figure, really dig the design of the clone in the series and it looks like all the the clone are really accurate to the on screen conterparts. Paint app is nice and clean, articulation is lacking but then a figure at the size woud have to loose articulation over how good the figure looks.



Gree has got to have one of the most unusally hair cuts in the show so far, from production art ive seen looks like there going to be even more crazy haircuts to help the clone indivdualise themselves. Removable helmet looks and fits perfectly.



Unlike the plain white cannon fodder clone, Gree comes with a pistol and holder and a nice bondilear over his chest, which is scuplted to fit around he figure perfectly. Figure also comes with a big chunky projectile toy (different to what shown on the packaging) but not a fan of those so did'nt bother to take pics of it.



Saw Commander Gree in the latest Geonois arc that was outstanding, did'nt speak at all if i remember.Ian

Star Wars 1/144 - Y-wing with R5 unit -

Finished F-toys 1/144 Y-wing with a new R5 unit replacing the original which came with a R2.



Frist removed some flash, applied a Pro-modellers wash, painted the pipes in a rusty colour and finaly weathered up with a tamiya weathering master.



If only these f-toys star wars vehicle had clear cockpit, be great to get to have a orange jumpsuit pilot visable.



I like side profiles.



R5 unit i sculpted, the top of the head red detail is a decal which came with the y-wing.



Reminds me of the last scene of ESB.



Can't figure out which pilot this Y-wing belong to from Gold Squadron



Ian

Starting a 1/144 McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle

Beautiful image i found on Flicker.

Making my next jet build a McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, will problie make her a Strike Eagle. Always liked this jet next to the F-14 and F-16, espeacially as i got to see it transform into Starscream every Saturday morning as a kid. Have'nt decided the deco yet USAF or JSDAF or maybe even a low vis Starscream, but that would need homemade decals, which i have'nt yet seceded at.

2 kits ive had stored away waiting to build a F-15, A J-wing Model/toy and a second hand LS model which has all the parts taken off the sprue but is complete.



Decided to go with the LS for the most part, it has better panel lines compared to the J-toys which are more like gorges.

LB has no cockpit, weapons and fuel tanks so taking those from the J-toys, really liking the fuel tanks from that one.

Going to put the coskpit from the J-toys into the LS, massive gap between the body and cockpit on the LS.



Got the main part of the cockpit in there with a little plasticard to fill in the spaces.

To solve the massive gap between cockpit and body, i saw a tutuorial once using plasticard to fill in the massive gaps when assembling older models, instead of fill up the gap with a load of filler. See if this work when the glues dired.



Ian

F-toys 1/144 Star Wars Collection 3

Great news, a fighter assortment with the awesome b-wing but another x-wing, should have been the screct item imo. Was hoping F-toys would make some RotJ fighters as ive got this idea of making a little dio with tubes red and gray for the inside of the Death Star 2.

Silhouette of the screct fighter, if it a tie-interceptor thats a bad choice for a secret item considering how popular it would be, would want a few of those and thats going to cost.

Droid tank seems a little random.

Ian

Bandai HG 1/144 - ZAKU II - Completed

Got my first gunpla all finished up, had to start with the Zaku II as its the first suit i saw in the first gundam i watched.



Quite a few things i would do differently, like the remove the red on the legs. Going to build another Zaku II in the future i hope since they always roam in packs.

















Still need to buy some little plastic gems which i hope i can use in the sights of the basooka and machine gun, maybe even use one on the eye.









Ian