Plamo Tsukurou Custom SP-11 airing 7/11/09

Plamo Tsukurou Custom SP-11 will air on July 11 and will feature a Ferrari F1 car and a Yamaha motorcycle.


more info on the Japanese FujiTV website here.

Decals and Funnels

Today I printed out the decal on decal paper. For economy reasons I printed it out on a normal paper sheet first, then i cut out a piece of the decal paper the size of the decal and taped i over the printout. Then I printed again, this way I don't waste huge amounts of decal paper :)
Next the printed decal got misted with a few coats of clear paint it seal it. Done!

Also added some smaller decals here and there, nothing major. Not a big fan of those decal-hell robots.

Next I painted the funnels and put them in the 'beehive'. Now it really payed off that i used neodyne magnets there - would have been a major pain otherwise trying to pin them in there in the fixed pose.




Will make nicer pics when i borrow my parents DSLR :)

Aya Natsume

I bought this half started figurine kit of Aya Natsume from Tenjo Tenge for cheap from somebody on the E2046 forum. Figures aren't really my thing but what the hell, I'll try, even if i probably never finish it :)



I don't really like the skimpy outfit, but the dragon is rather cool. So I have the overly ambitious idea to scratchbuild/model a hakama and gi on her.
Kinda this style:


So if i EVER finish this there is maaaaaaaaybe a minimalistic chance it will be totally awesome. To start off, I'm removing the gothicy shoes of her. Tedious and makes quite a mess:

Nagano Logo

Edited the logo a bit, which was surprisingly easy.

And printed it out on paper to get s feel for the size.
Also reattached the flaps/wings of the Qubeley as they were a tad uneven in height.

Here the Q with the logo attached with some masking tape.

All your base are...

Started building a base. It's made from parts I had laying around and is a bit crude. But it will do for now until I can try to make a fancy one.

Essentially I drilled a hole into a piece of wood and glued an aluminum tube into it. Filled the top with some Milliput epoxy putty and pinned the Qubeley onto it.

All thats left to do now is painting the funnels/bits and adding the 'Nagano decal'. Bawoo on the hobbyfanatics forum was awesome enough to make a clean version of it.
http://www.hobbyfanatics.com/index.php?showtopic=21892

I'll print it out on decal paper (never done that before) and done :D

Standing pose, not very stable - the kit is a bit back heavy:

next to my Master Grade Qubeley:

New kits

A few little kits i ordered from rainbow10 arrived. As I need something more relaxing once the Qubeley is finished, I got some HGUC 1/144 kits.

• HY-GOGG - AWESOME AWESOME design! Totally love it!
• Gaza-C - One of the ugliest UC MS ever imo - the whole design with the transformation doesn't make a whole lot sense (if transformation in general makes sense is another story lol) and the weird roundness on some parts doesn't really fit at all. But I do like the legs and feet. Gonna try to mod this one into something that looks good to me.
• Jamru Fin (from ZZ) oldschool 1/144 Non-Grade kit. Actually I wanted to get a AMX-104R R-Jarja but I couldn't find the kit. Anyways this one was really cheap and looks kinda cool too. But since it is such an old kit, i probably gonna need some work to look good.
  

Oh Snap!

I had the male joints too close to the flap holder which hindered me putting the flaps in the correct pose. Drilled them out which thankfully worked without messing up the paint or the rest of the part and glued in new ones a bit further out.





:O
Getting close to completion. Also added the "angle parts" to the foot tips for a floating pose on the base, so the frontfeed will point downwards.