STURMDIAS -3.1- joints

Forgot to add this to the last post. I used Yellow Submarine/Hobby Base joints for the ankles and the hip. Aside from the shoulder/upper arm joints the others don't really make sense to replace. I'll leave the shoulder pinned static as well since the Dias will hold a pretty big and heavy gun which would be to heavy for the small joints i could use there. Also the gun allows for only one pose anyways.


The T01 set is a PERFECT fit for the kit (like for the Qubeley)

STURMDIAS -3- more stuff

Hey! Made a bit progress with the Sturmdias. The last month I haven't really been working on it as the weather here was way too good and the World Cup was in progress :)

Pinned leg VS. AA battery:


Pre-mixed some primer to airbrush. 50% Mr Resin Primer, 50% Thinner and a dash Mr. Retarder so the paint dries a bit slower.


Here is the super lovely booster leg assembly. I used magnets to hold the boosters in place.

So they just snap in place, works great.

All the pieces together:



Color testing: Vallejo Italian Red (left) vs. Vallejo Scarlet Red (right).
Will go with Scarlet Red, it more vivid and has more of a pop... whatever that means :)

Next up: Those super-sweet thrusters <3

Some closeup with Tamiya Clear Red highlight.


After some coats of Tamiya Smoke, sumi-ire/washing with flat black and stone gray enamel, some decals, and a bit of roughing them up: Thrusters finished!



Well that's it for now, but I think/hope I will make better progress now :)

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-15 on youtube

Episode SP-15 featuring a 1/24 Tamiya Fiat 500F mysteriously appeared on youtube.
Links are on the video page.

Ayukawa Madoka Maxfactory 1/7 Kit

A while ago i did my first figure kit. Ayukawa from my all-time favorite animu show Kimagure Orange Road :)
Got the kit from an ebay Thai caster - so i didn't expect much in casting quality, but it actually was quite decent.


The details in the cast were pretty good and the part fit was okay'ish. It was mainly the skirt that needed hot water rebending, an easy fix.
Where it got tricky was the consistency of the resin. It was REALLY hard and a bit brittle for the thin parts while at the same time it had a bit of a rubbery feel to it. Weird stuff. Also it smelled a bit like strawberry chewing gum.

All in all it was pretty workable thou.
I used neodym magnets for the head/hair connection, otherwise i used brass pins.


Here you can see some parts that broke of while i was sanding. Fixed it with MORI MORI putty, which worked excellent for this.


primer! & after a coat of white it was masking time


Parts painted minus the face:


First I tried to airbrush the eyes with some insane masking, but it didn't work out well so I went with handpainting. Used the scan of a close up cel of Madoka as a sample and painted with enamel and acrylic paint with a tiny 00000 brush. Worked pretty good actually and wasn't that hard.




flickr set with a few more pics here

STURMDIAS -2-

Already a little update :)

This is the rear booster mount. As you can see on the right side the whole booster is held by a single downward! facing pin. Tricky.

Tried to mount a booster temporarily.

The whole construction gives quite some stress on the mount and pins. This will need a good amount of epoxy glue to avoid any flex and to keep everything safely in place.

Here an example where i use neodyne magnets. Instead of a pin i put magnets in little holes . They hold the parts quite well in place. <3

Also got some new supplies from the HLJ.com free express shipping promo last week. Mr. Resin Primer, Mori Mori putty (AWESOME stuff!) and Hobby Base/Yellow Submarine joints.
I will probably use the joints in the hips, ankles and shoulders.

STURMDIAS LAUNCH!

Here we go! Got my RMS-099B Sturm Dias (aka Schutzrum Dias) kit.
The Silicon-Tribe kit comes in 1/90 scale, boosts an impressive parts-count (184!) and with the two rear boosters it is absolutely huge. The design is based of the Mamoru Nagano Rick-Dias design (the guy who also designed the Qubeley - see my other ST kit)

The Sturm Dias is the updated version seen in Gundam ZZ..

Overview of the parts:

The casting is stunning and super sharp. All the small infamous Silicon-Tribe details are there.

Rear booster VS Sinanju:


Here the core body with the hinges for the rear boosters. They are relatively filigree and need some solid pinning to hold the weight.

I'm also working with little neodyne magnets to clip some parts into places for better accessibility later on. I'll show some pics of that later on.

A mystery part - it doesn't make any sense to me. I have no idea how to fit it or what the purpose of this is :) - I can't spot it in any reference pics of built kits either lol :)

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-15 on 6/26

The next episode will air 6/26 and feature a Tamiya Fiat 500F. I'm not sure if it's the only kit in this episode as the info on the FujiTV website is a bit sparse, but at the moment it looks like it.