painting the Qubeley

Started painting the Qubeley. I read about adding a drop of blue to the white color to make it 'whiter' and I tried that and failed miserably. More like a TINY FRACTION of a drop of blue... else it will be pretty blueish. Painted the whole thing with straight white now, except for a few parts as I ran out of white since i wasted a perfectly good glass of white on that blue drop :/
Anyways I am going for that original Nagano color scheme:

And started painting the purple parts. Tried to do it with masking and airbrush first, but all the curved details are batshit insane to mask and i went with handpainting instead which worked rather good. Only have a little bit of cleanup to do when i get my new white paint which was convineantly sold out at the two hobby stores here and I had to mail order it - Vallejo color recently became pretty popular with the stores here for whatever reason and they have plenty in stock of those, but Tamiya was out of stock. :(

Tenjo Tenge - 天上天下 Pinky:st:

A little off-topic but I am a huge fan of the Tenjo Tenge manga from Oh! Great. So I saw those chibi Pinky Street Tenjo Tenge figures some time ago and couldn't resist. Imported them from Yahoo! Japan :D. This was the first time that I used a proxy bidding service to buy something from Yahoo! Japan auctions and it worked fairly well, will use it again.

They sure are some cute little bastards:



Emi, Aya, Maya

The boxes also came with some high quality artwork prints/postcards, pretty cool :)

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-10 coming end of the month

Just a little heads up, Plamo Tsukurou Custom SP-10 will air 03.27 and will feature two military ships.
Some preview pictures are on the FujiTV website: http://www.fujitv.co.jp/cs/program/7215_056.html

Working on the Q again

So I started working on the Qubeley again. Not much to see except some primed parts.
Still finding lots and lots of little bubble holes. So annoying. :/


Letting some parts dry from the warmth on my amp :)

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-9 coming

currently encoding and preparing to upload SP-9. It features an open Airbus A380 and the Writght Flyer I.


Also the Qubeley is a bit on hiatus as its too cold to airbrush currently. Have to airbrush with open window and with these cold temperatures at the moment I freeze and the paint gets a weird texture.

Priming the キュベレイ

So I started priming the Q. Cleaned the parts with oven cleaner spray and soap water and then primed with Gunze/GSI Mr. Resin Primer Surfacer. This is the first time I used airbrush primer instead of canned primer and I must say it is MUCH more economic. Plus with all the tiny little details of the Qubeley there is less chance that they get lost in blobs of Primer.


I is a rather time consuming process as after priming you can see all the parts that needs fixing or aren't evenly sanded. So that means sanding and re-priming.

Qubeley Neodyne Tail

For the 'tail' i used tiny 3mm neodyne magnets to hold the bottom and top half together.
Makes painting easy and I can open it when its finished to marvel at the internals.

Glued them in with 2 component epoxy glue.