Fantastic Adventure Of Yohko: Leda

 Genmu Senki Leda in the original Japanese, great little OVA about a high school student Yohko who travel to another world because of the music she created for a boy shes in love with who doesn't know it. Her music is a gateway between these two worlds where shes has a fantastic adventure and ends up saving both worlds while wearing the anime standard female armor (less is more protective).

Found the anime quite charming myself and really surprised that i would enjoy a sword and sorcery genre anime, defiantly a sci-fi mecha fanboy myself and yeah, cute Yohko was a pleasure to watch with her sideways ponytail. Great chracter design by Inomata Mutsumi, who i was surprised to find out was a lady, was expecting a bloke to created such a character.

Ian

Revell 1/144 - F14A Tomcat and F-14D Super Tomcat - Wip 1

Revell 1/144 F-14s all built and ready to be primed / painted. Great little kit to build, need very little putty and sanding which for me is a big win.

Reckon ive made a mistake by gluing in the wings, notice alot of modellers keeping them separate and assembling the cat at the end of the build, which for some reason i totally forgot to do.

F-14D has pilot in the cockpit and the F-14A without. Tried something different on the nose, used sewing needles to replace the point, first f-14 i built i kept breaking that off which was a pain.

Going to wait for alot of the model are ready to paint and airbrush them in in a one sitting i hope, reckon i will bin this green mat.
Ian

F-toys 1/144 - A-7E Corsair II - Wip 1

The single seater to go along with the Ta-7C is a very nice little gasphon from F-toys, great detail!

Quite easy this compared to the resin kit, taken apart but back together, then glued, seams filled and the usually sanding. No cockpit to speak off, managed to bash one with bits from the spare box and kept the little f-toys pilot.

All the f-toys aircraft come with very nice little stands so i reckon i will make this one in flight, fully armed.
Is all primed and ready for paint but will wait till the 2 seater is ready for painting.

Ian

FeResin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II - Wip 1

Been doing slight adjustments to this kit all week, been trying to gets these pieces to go together correctly took some time, then super glued together and once all that glue sets got no chance of adjusting i reckon.

When i started sanding this yesterday, they amount of dust! Had to take it outside.

Then added what i hope is lots of detail to the cockpit, might have the canopy open on this one.


Today i went to glue the final pieces off the kit on when i realised that one of the canards was missing, luckily quite a easy piece to bash with some plasticard.

Bit more sanding to do on the seams then a coat of MrSurfacer to hopefully fill in all the tiny bobbles in the resin, lots on the underside of the wings. If it works should be good to go paint wise.

Ian

Sweet 1/144 - Hawker Hurricane - WIP 1

Been concentrating on the Hawker Hurricane mostly starting these new builds, this Sweet kit is like the other Sweet kits ive built a dream to build, goes together perfectly but im constantly worried that i might destroy some of the details

Added a very simple seat and dashboard which this was the first few sweet kits are lacking. In a week im practically ready to paint these two, which i think might be the fastest ive ever build a kit.




Broke the radio antenna on the brown plastic one almost instantly, will wait until the after decaling then add a new one, metal maybe.
Ian

New build - Sweet 1/144 - Hawker Hurricane -

First 4 build ready for 2011, last is the Battle of Britain workhorse, the Hurricane, bought these fantastic little kits over a year ago and for some reason never got round to building them. Going to model 2, one in the classic brown and green Battle of Britain livery and the other in the very nice desert scheme.

Ian

[Kit Review] - Revell 1/144 - F14A Tomcat and F-14D Super Tomcat -

New build for the new year, another model ive built before and one i think i can do better going to model 2 F-14s, one a F-14A Tomcat and the other a F-14D Super Tomcat, reckon a Sundowner and Grim Reapers will looks great.

Great kit with some quality detail, this is the F-14A, the F-14D has different engines and rader.



My favorite looking jet, reckon i will be building more of these in the future.
Ian

[Kit Review] - Sweet 1/144 - Macchi Mc.200 -

Another one for the bench,  already made one of these over a year ago and was not all that great, this kit has excellent detail but is lacking a cockpit and undercarriage, plan on making 2 one in the located in Italy and the other in Africa with scratched built cockpits and open undercarriage.



All the panel lines and proportions are perfect but lacks a cockpit and open under carriage.
Ian

[Kit Review] - FE Resin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II -

Back to modelling after the christmas and new year break and this time i think i will build multiple models at the same time instead of only one the go.

 

Going to be making both the single and double seater of the LTV A-7 Corsair II, 2-seater will my first resin kit using the FeResin TA-7C and the single seater A-7 will be made using the very nice F-toys Gasphon.

Ian

TRON Legacy

Watched this today and WOW!
What a feast for the eyes. Every new year me and my brothers go watch a movie and this was a quality flick to enjoy together.
I enjoyed it from the start with the Disney Castle logo all Troned up and all the way through the action set pieces on the grid, like a world designed by Apple. Defiantly going to a second viewing.

What 3d was made for, Happy New Year!
Ian