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About The Kit »
I figured that while I was doing
figures I'd bang this one out and get some practice
on bare metal and rusting. This was another bad
recast from HobbyFan... why is it bad? Well, if
the kit is riddled with pin holes, crevasses/recesses
are very rough, molds are misaligned, and it requires
a whole lot of epoxy putty to make presentable,
then it's a bad cast.
Clean-up wise I had to resculpt
around where the arms connect to the torso to
make them fit nicely without gaps. The pre-modded
gaps were at most 1.5mm in some spots. The mold
was misaligned a bit on the torso so I had to
really sand down the sides and then recarve some
of the folds of the clothing. The torso also had
a lot of pinholes on the chest. The back of the
hair had a 2mm gap that I filled with Apoxy Sculpt
and made an extra strand of hair to fill. I had
to also resculpt the part in the hair and where
the fingers touch the hair to clean those gaps
up. The arms had some roughness in the panel lines
and around some of the shapes, but weren't too
bad to clean-up. The boots were a little missaligned
as well, but easy to fix.
Painting was done with Alclad 2,
Rub-n-Buff, and oils for the metal parts. For
the shik, hair and clothing I basecoated with
Tamiya Acrylics and then painted with oils over
the basecoat much like with Duenan.
After a flat coat some discoloration techniques
were done to the clothing to make it look less
than clean and new.
I'd go on about what I did to Gally,
but instead I did a detailed/documented in-progress
page. Click here to see
it.
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