My first finished plane that is in service today, the Eurofighter Typhoon from Revell. Even though the kit is really lacking detail im really happy with the way its turned out.
Really dig how the Pro modellers Wash really brought out the panel lines and gave it a worn in look. First model i used the the Micro Sol and Micro Set decal softener, this stuff really impressed me, melts the decal on to the model to give it a painted on look and once applied try not to touch the decal again, the pain at ruining the decal.
Quite a few thing that i can improve on,getting the masking on the canopy correct, you can kinda see where i didn't apply the masking tape correctly and left a weird looking finishing line. Still got to watch were i put my fingers after i glued the model. Not to sand so hard that i leave a flat surface where it should be rounded.
Anime movie which i watched at the weekend, was in released in Japan a 2 45 minute OVA's but Manga Entertainment combined them into one to form a movie.
Manga Entertainment UK had the best trailers, use to record the music of the tv and listen to them on my super massive Sony Walkman, miss these great old advertisments
Synopsis The land of Zer’lue is in turmoil, ravaged by the technological might of Chairman Sana'ku and his evil, militaristic Zul’earth forces. In a rapidly unfolding story of treachery, deceit and betrayal, only one boy holds the power to defeat such overwhelming odds... a boy named Lue'der, who possesses a mysterious red eye and the ability to control the power of the wind itself. With the fate of the world at stake, Lue'der must learn to unlock his legendary power and battle against the evil which threatens to engulf his planet.
Kinda uninspiring anime, thought that when i saw Masamune Shirow created the Mecha, possible the script and the character design (best part of the movie) that i would be for a Appleseed style treat, not so.
Wanted to watch this because years ago like maybe 14 ish years ago i remember seeing this as a new release but not being able to afford it, a staggering £14.99 back then and not old enough to buy it, if i had the money i would have just ask a friends older brother to buy it for me anyway.
Never caught onto the name of the character, they were too weird and when ever a character talk about someone else i was unsure who they where referring to, much easier to stick with Han, Luke and Leia than Lue'der, Sana'ku and what other crazy made up name i forget.
Interesting parts was the family ties, father who finds a boy and brings him up as his son who has a sister who has a twin who's the enemy who kills her own father without knowing who fake father knew and is a real nutter.
I think a 2/5 is the rating i'd give this, not great and quite struggle to watch all 1 hour and 30 minutes but a relief to finish it. Alway think those quotos on movie poster a unreliable "Excellent, simply gorgeous in all aspects", should have been "Great idea and designs but could have been so much better"
Had a little play with my revoltech EVA's which i found stashed at the back of my bits and bobs draw. Took me quite some time to get these in the poses i wanted them, i think that why i stored them away after getting a little annoyed at not getting them to look like there posed on the back of the boxes.
First revoltechs i bought at Anime Expo in London, also got the summer version of Yotsuba, some Macross Valkyrie and Regult and maybe a few Gurren Lagann's.
The blue upgraded EVA Unit 00 is my favorite, great looking colour and comes with the best accessories.
"WHY!" can't i get Unit 01 to stand in a great berserker pose, lol. Platoon style pose instead, the head and hands for berserk are really cool little accessory.
Starting watching the original Mobile Suit Gundam which got me wanting to have ago at building a few gunpla from the series. Had a look around and the only olace in the UK to get any was eBay which always seems to be the case. Got these for in a lot for £20 which i thought seemed OK.
Going to build Chars Zaku first before i tackle the Guntrio. Already a big Zaku II fan, explain why i see so many Zaku models when i go searching for gunpla modeling. Look like good kit but not as good as the gunpla from Gundam 00 i got recently. Wondering if i should paint Char's Zaku all read as the plastic looks slightly pink.
Building up quite a stash which is both a good and bad thing, end up getting to many to build or store anyway.
Recently acquired another die-cast macross fighter through Macross World Forums which i think is quite cool. Is a production model of the YF-19 from the Macross VF-X2 game. Already got the YF-21 which i like but as with that one not a detail as i would have liked but thats just because of nit being die-cast metal.
Under the supervision of "Shoji Kawamori" is cool, knew he designed the VF-19A head but not the colour scheme.
Excellent packaging just like all Doyusha 1/144 Macross fighters. Excellent box it kept in, like a jewelry box.
Has swept back wings which is cool but don't remember that happening in Macross Plus.
Birds eye view
Looks a bit dull underneath.
Awesome little detail is the "No Step" warning sign on the wings, letters are about half the height of a millimeter.
Only spent a couple hours working on these this week but for some reason in that short time i got quite a lot done.
All the basic paint work done on the Phalanx and Kakizake Super VF-1A, bit of tidying up, decaling and then weathering should get these 2 done. From a birds-eye view im surprised how good the Valkyrie looks.
Got the white stripes painted onto the Pioneer mustang and the F-86 Sabre is practically done i think until i notice something ive mist.
The Wildcat IV is finished i think, big mistake with this is that i got super glue under the canopy which as ruin that giving it the dreaded misted look, might paint the window black to disguise that mistake.
After wanting to build the odd Gunpla i now find myself wanting to build more and more. When i saw this i the model shop it was an instant buy, never knew such a thing existed in the Gundam universe but sure looks cool to me, like a battle version of the pods from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The shark teeth was a big yes to this buy, so cool just like real figther planes.
Looks like a really different model kit from the other gundam model ive bought, this one has a interior skeleton with lots of cool mechanical parts to paint up.
Really does look like a mecha that could easily exist to me.
Another new purchase, this time a F/A-18E Super Hornet from dragon which looks like a good kit.
Looks much better than the F-14A i bought a whle back, thought that was a good kit a first before i built it and it turned out to be quite bad.
Decide im niot going to start any new kits until ive finished all the one ive got on the bench first, seemed to keep starting models and not finishing many, so this going into the ever growing stash.
Little bit ive got worked on, got the F-14A all decaled up and had ago at adding more detail to the cockpit, used some wire to copy the bit thats onto of the ejection seat.
Got all the landing gear assembled onto the Wildcat IV, quite a complicated little thing. I screwed up the decaling on the first P-51 Pioneer Mustang, the litle marking are mean't to be decals but i could not quite figure out how they were supposed to be applied so masked and painted them instead, tryed out the wings first and seams ok so i marked up the tail for when i next get some time to paint.
First Star Wars ive worked on,always been one of my favorite Star Wars vehicles, the SnowSpeeder from The Empire Srikes Back.
The one with orange marking is Rogue Two which took down the AT-AT with the harpoon, the other is just a random background Snowspeeder which i noticed in the hoth hange there are alot of very dirty looking snowspeeder so i made one of those. had to do a repaint of Lukes snowspeeder because it had a bad factory paint-app.
Then added the decals which are super small and then a wash with Pro-modellers wash black to bring out the panel lines which i think really brings out the detail.
