Completed Kits #22: KG-6 Sleipnir

Yet another Kotobukiya painted orange! this one even more so than the last one.
Like that kit I've built this for a local hobby show, CAMS 2017.

So I started this kit around this time last year, but never finished until just recently, it was a good mix of sheer laziness and that I just couldn't find a shade of orange that was a good fit. I did all of the prep work when I was working on it last year but I managed to lose the photos (or more likely just neglected to take any at the time).

Anyway, I have finished it up properly now; the orange is a New Haven Orange by Badger Flex, I had the absolute worst time trying to spray this stuff it supposedly pre-thinned but it wasn't spraying well so I then thinned it and it still wouldn't spray cleanly. Anyway the rest of my colour selection are the usual culprits Vallejo paints and pigments. I felt that this kit needed some really heavy weathering to make it fit in the show it comes from where its considered to be less than a grunt.

Kotobukiya KG-6 Sleipnir WIP

So I started this kit around this time last year, but never finished until just recently, I just couldn't find a shade of orange that was a good fit. I did all of the prep work when I was working on it last year but I managed to lose the photos (or more likely just neglected to take any at the time). Anyway, I have finished up up properly now.

Completed Kits #21: HGLM Evangelion Unit 04

It took some work to get it done, but I'm pretty pleased with the finished kit. This was also my very first attempt at anything even remotely diorama like, and I'm pretty happy with how that turned out too. 

That all said I think there are a few things I could have done better, I really should have scribed the panel lines a bit deeper across the kit, just to make the lines pop a bit more. I also would've liked to build spears that were more anime accurate but they seemed like a bit of a nightmare to build properly.

RE100 Efreet Custom WIP #2

So at this point I've finished up the basic shape of the fuel tanks and I have shaped them up a little bit. I have a few more things to add here and there. I've also added some big square thrusters under the shoulder armour, because I felt they were kind of bare and it would be better fit for what I have planned.

RE100 Efreet Custom WIP #1

So, this is my entry into the IAG 2017 Contest, in my understanding its okay to share WIPs but people might copy your work so its kind of discouraged. But I like sharing my work so I'm gonna just post it everywhere.

Anyway, I decided to use the RE100 Efreet Custom I had just snapped. The theme for the contest is the Meijin Cup, so get some build fighters on! So the first question I asked is (having just watched Westworld) am I the villain or the hero? Villain, definitely villain, pretty much all my previous BF themed build look really villainous, and the Efreet really helps with that.

So at first, I had thought of combining the idea of the Kaempfer with the Efreet, but the bazookas I had scratched just didn't look right on it. So after a bit of thought BF again became the solution; Kaempfer Amazing: fuel tanks and weapon pods. The other bit that I changed up was to remove the rack of missiles from the legs, I felt like they really messed up the lines.