Rei² Ayanami

Medicom RAH, Evangelion Unit 00 pilot.

Revell 1/144 - F-16A Fighting Falcon - WiP 3

Except for an antenna to be added the viper is all modelled and ready to paint.

Once primed i can check for any mistakes and fix, then find the correct greys to paint this bird.
Ian

Real Grade - MS-05L Zaku I - Sniper Type - WiP 5 -

Been a couple of months since i updated this build, during summer my model building really takes a sideline.

Head/monitor and the chest completed, looking like the best modelling works ive done so far, all very crisp and clean but had taken me month to get to this stage.

Knee stand from the HGUC added to the RG, alot of the inner frame cut up to fit this the way i wanted up close sitting on the leg. No need to add Real Grade detail to this parts, for HGUC is is really already very detailed.



Backpack with the RG rocket booster instead of the big ugly HGUC ones, also did this so what when all my other RG Zakus are lined up from behind there is a sort of conformity.

Little bit of detail added to the backpack, panels lines and screw holes to break some of the plain surfaces.



Really not alot left to do, going to wait for the weather to cool before i paint this.
Ian

Revell 1/144 - F-16A Fighting Falcon - WiP 2

Bought this it in December and this is where i am right now, which is almost built i reckon.

For a brand new Revell kit i got to say theres alot of work to get this looking as good as there previous 1/144 kits, lots of flash to remove and a fair amount of putty used but a great amount of detail to compensate, you can just about see some of the great panel which will look great after a wash making this the best 1/144 F-16 kit.

If it taken me 6 months to get this far i think it will be completed in another 6.
Ian

Real Grade - MS-06J Zaku II "White Orge" - WiP 4 - Painted

White and very clean.

But not very long, weather the hell out of this soon.

Took me some time to paint every single part a uniform white, don't know if it normal but used nearly an entire jar of the Tamiya paint to get this result.

Few issues to fix before starting on the weathering, maybe not so much in the photo but where i covered over the verniers on the front calves is really visible, going to have to strip the paint, putty again to make perfect. Also front part of the face (snout?) must have lost that somewhere along the way because once assembled no sign of that, have been searching but luckily if not found i have a spare if needed, looks kinda goofy without it.

Can see alot of the mods from the rear, back of the calves verniers have been covered and a panel line drawn down the centre like the MG J type, top of the backpack verniers filled in and the booster rockets replaced with the smaller ones from the calves because big old rockets ain't need on the gravity front. Also the standard sharpening of the spikes on the shoulder guard and thining the head antenna.



Kind of white finish i'd like to have on Shin's MS-06R-1A White Wolf, but a long way off yet.
Ian

U.C. HARDGRAPH 1/144 - WiP - Pilot Suit Amuro Ray + Sayla Mass -

The Sayla Mass figure is the best 1/144 scale figures ive modelled, took 3 figures to make but definitely worth it.
Amuro looks good too but think i need to make his hair curlier, both figures pose's i copied from the 1/35 Core Fighter kit

Needed some figures to go with my RG Core Fighter which i hope to make a diorama with.
Ian

Real Grade - MS-06J Zaku II "White Orge" - WiP 3 - Primed

Not terrible exciting but all the parts needed to be painted white primed white and the darker parts grey.
Used Halford's White Primer which is meant for cars but from all my tests using different white primes is the best and just happens to be the cheapest.

ZOMBIE RESPONSE

 

The seventh emergency service, dial 666.

Real Grade - MS-06J Zaku II "White Orge" - WiP 1 -

Got to get a rival for my Type 61 Tank and what a bad ass Zaku at that to add to the RG collection. The day i saw the first release of the Real Grade Zaku II ive wanted to model the White Orge.

All the mods needed to change the space F type to the ground J type, which is really removing any verniers needed for movement in zero G.

- Small verniers from the top of the backpack filled and the main rockets at the rear will be the smaller ones  left from the back of the calf.
- On the leg all the verniers covered over and a couple new panel lines added to detail up the blank surface.
- On the top of the head the antenna thinned and sharpened to what i hope will look knife edge.



All the RG Zakus ive done before ive just painted these cable parts on the sprues but as there going to be white thought i better prepare each parts properly, damn dull job putting these together and sanding them all.



Going to be quite fun adding all the weathering.
Ian

Real Grade - MS-05L Zaku I - Sniper Type - WiP 4 -

Not a massive amount of work done on this lately but have got the shoulder guard finished, cut off the spikes, filled with epoxy and then lots of sanding and adding putty and sanding again.

Started the backpack first filling any seam lines, only going to need to add a little detail to this, for a HGUC item it really got alot going on already. Also going to replace the booster with the smaller RG ones, think the originals are too darn big and having the RG booster will add a sense of conformity to all the RG Zakus if look at from behind.



Ian