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.

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.