Black Series STORMTROOPERS

 Opened these up today, original stormtrooper is superior, articulation and cleaner finish on what little paint work they both have.

Ian

Hornby Railroad A4 Mallard to Silver Fox

This is the start of my OO gauge modeling by detailing and renaming Railroad Mallard to Silver Fox, started by removing the numbering on the cab and nameplates and removing the later BR crest and to be replace with the early one.
Plan on having Mallard in the future but in BR Express blue.
Got new number and etched plates ordered from Modelmaster.
Ian

Trains in the garden

Im back but ot 1/144, OO gauge, Zombie post risen from the dead, yeah something new :-)

Was great weather for playing with my old hornby.

For a very long time ive wanted a garden railway, so i got out the old hornby from the loft and set in up on this little wall in the garden, had a great time running this little guys.

He was on the hunt when ever the pug was in action.



Used up every piece of track, needs a good clean to help the dc flow.



I can safely say that out of everything ive got in oo gauge i'd only keep a quarter and dicth the rest. And that quarter would need some work.



Won't be in this garden but i can imagine a great layout for long trains to run on.
Ian

Real Grade - MSM-07S Z'GOK

Oh yeah, another of the Zeon Real Grade. Plan on making 3 of theese bad ass suits, Chars, mass produced blue and Unicorn green.
Next on my RG wish list is the GM, then more Zeon, Dom please. 
Ian

Real Grade - MS-06J Zaku II "White Orge" - WiP 6 - Factory Fresh

Well the last time i worked on this was in August, finally going to start weathering up this very clean zeak. Going to try and copy the animation model as much as possible, shields looking good me thinks.

Wild River's G-WORLD

Amazing mook i bought on my trip to Japan, in Akihabara (i want to go back so much!). These dioramas are awesome and are so detailed that you notice something new everytime you look, or i do at least and i like to browse through this one often.

Just like me, Wild River has a penchant for the One Year War, espeacially Gravity Front Zeon. Click on through to my Flickr for much bigger photos to explore the amazing details.



Acguy, my second favorite amphibious suit after Z'Gok.



Made the YMS-15 Gyan look cool, looks great on screen but never really a fan gunpla wise.



Winter soliders



This Zaku Cannon diorama is the best!



Imagine its inspired by a German 88.



The White Base in Belfast, talk about detail.



Z'Gok rescue, really looking forward to the RG.



Atmospheric.


Brilliant U.C. Hardgraph diorama with he Wappa.



Have'nt been modelling of late but still have WiPs on the bench, alot of them.
Ian

Ace Combat Master File - ASF-X SHINDEN II -

Another awesome Master File to add to the collection, this one for Ace Combat Assault Horizon focusing on the Shouji Kawamori designed Shidnen II. Only uploaded a handful of pages, whole mook is a feast for my eyes.











British version!















CFA-44 NOSFERATU, not so sexy adversary.





Ian

MECHA ART

MECHA ART, a photo by AZM-GRAPHIX on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Was in Halford Wokingham picking up a few things for my cycle and i noticed this hieght chart for children had this sweet bit of mecha art amougst the usual child drawing of monkey, panda flower etc. Whoever created this clearly likes anime, really like the white markings.

Real Grade - MS-05L Zaku I - Sniper Type - WiP 10 - Painted and Decaled

Had this Christmas week off and so plenty of time to do some modelling and so far what a result!

Really can't believe how good this is looking so far, really happy all the modelling work i put in has paid off.
Ian

Real Grade - MS-05L Zaku I - Sniper Type - WiP 8 -

This is everything modelled and ready to be primed, mods from the top:

Head - Streamlined the nose, cut out the section of the head for the sight, added vulcans, added antenna and crest at the rear.
Torso - Fitted chest from HGUC kit (which is sitting a little too high in photo), added detail in plasticard.
Waist - Buckle added where Zaku II cable would have attached and part of the skirt extended.
Arms - Both shoulder modified, shoulder guard had spikes removed from and other side fitted shoulder from HGUC kit, wrists size increased.
Legs - All holes for Zaku II cables covered and verniers on the front and back of below knees covered, knee stand added from the HGUC kit.



From the back:
Backpack - Various little details added to the HGUC kit to bring it more inline with the RG, booster rockets added from the RG kit (thought the HGUC boosters where too big, plus when all zakus lined up all booster look the same)
Legs - Al sockets for cables covered and verniers covered.

Ian