Been gone for awhile. End January was the Chinese New Year holidays so I was busy stuffing myself with food and hanging out with the family. Then today, she arrived:
That’s right! My 2nd child! Her name’s Madelyn Kaylen Seng. She was born 3.22kg and 49cm long. Not too shabby for a chick huh?
HAHAHAHAHA!
E2046 is a Hong Kong based e-store that sells recasted resin kits originally released in Japan. Not that I condone piracy, but they recast stuff that wouldn’t have been possible for folks outside of Japan to get, on the account that resin kits have very limited production and all.
Anyway, E2046 has just announced the pending release of recasted kits of the B-Club TGM-79C GM Canard and what looks like Studio Reckless’ RGM-79G GM Plus Alpha. Both 1/144 scale (MY scale heh). These are up for pre-ordering which is nice since I won’t have to pay until they are actually produced. Needless to say, these have been pre-ordered.
There are always 2: a Master, and an Apprentice…
Muahahahahahahahaha! And so it begins…
I got tired of the endless puttying and sanding so I decided to distract myself by doing the landing gear. First, I had to putty some of the gear doors that had the most obvious injection marks. Then I proceeded to paint all the parts in white and give it a light black-grey wash.
Usually for the tires, I’d freehand everything and it doesn’t come out too well. I decided to do something different this time. First, the wheel was painted white, then I masked it with a glob of blutack. Black is then brushed on. Turned out to be quite OK after I removed the blutack, just had to do some minor fixing up. Then I superglued the tire to the landing gear and gave it a light wash of black grey.
Took a look at the ejection handles again and thought I can do better. So base coat white, then quick brush of yellow, then carefully did the black section again. Much better now.
Kit Info
Manufacturer: Hasegawa
Scale: 1/72
Media: Injection Plastic
WOOB 04 is here and it’s due in April 2009. I plan to finish this by the end of the month. Got a schedule to keep up with! Of course I’m a mod now at Plamo which means I can’t win anything. But I have to support the event heh.
So first up, as typical of aircraft kits in general, I begin with the cockpit. The seat is done up first. Handpainted with Vallejo paint, given a black-grey wash, then drybrushed with white. It looks like there’s a pee stain on it 
. I’ll fix it soon enough.
Next up, the cockpit tub and control panels. Since it’s strictly OOB, it’s all a matter of handpainting Vallejo, black-grey wash and a final drybrush of white.
I’m supposed to use decals for the control surfaces. Unfortunately, they disintegrated as soon as they got into the water. So I ended up painting the main consoles blue over a base of white with a wash of black-grey. The rationale is of course, these are all digital displays so they are basically TV monitors.
I chose to do the YF-19 in single-seater mode so the second seat section is covered by a panel. The details are a bit bare but I think with the canopy on, it should look fine. I’ll add seatbelts to the seat after WOOB 04 is over, just because I think the seat really needs them. I also find the grey I used for the cockpit to be abit too bright, but I’ll see how it goes when the canopy goes on.
The engineering of this kit is better than the VF-1 series as the kit is made up of entire subassemblies which should make painting and easy affair.
