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.

キュベレイ Yellow Submarine ABS Joints

To get around the free pose pinning, with which I claim i is 'almost' impossible to get all for wing flaps of the Qubeley even, I ordered ABS Joints.

With the pin vise and an old dremel i found i enlarged and deepened the joint holes in the kit a bit. Fairly easy and the joints fit perfectly.

Did that on all major joints.

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-8

Quick update: I linked SP-8 in the video section.

Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM SP-8

Looks like there will be a new Plamo Tsukurou CUSTOM special this month on 9.28.
It will feature two trucks, as seen in the link below.
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/cs/program/7215_056.html

ST Qubeley yay

yea, i was very busy with exams so not much updates lately.
Here are some pics of the Qubeley kit.


As i mentioned it is an SMS recast. It also features some modifications over the original Silicon Tribe kit that i am not too happy about. You can see them below:


some of them I reverted already with putty.


I got MORI MORI polyester putty which is really awesome. it's a two component putty that is nicely sandable and not too hard like epoxy putty (which has its uses too).