Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Figma Kyon

I received this the next day after i got my Mikuru! Didnt had time to post it here until, so now i just gonna run it through quickly!






This Figma Kyon is one of the member of the SOS-dan tat got delay for a month plus reason was unknown..... but it is still better than not releasing it..... now the only thing left is Itsuki which I PO with a local merchant never show up until today (and i am very pissed off by it).


Simple packaging as the rest of the SOS-dan member


total amount accesories are almost the same as Haruhi


As i recall Kyon-san here doesnt show much of an expression in the anime so i guess just the expression of him looking trouble is enough..... but then again the expression for the Figma that are coming out seems to be getting lesser.... is it becouse of the petrol price?

So this is my second male figma figure. Think not all collector like to collect male figure so in the market they are so few male figures..... all the male character that manage to be release in PVC figure are either super duper hot main character of a game or movie, or either a super duper bad villain (by the way I kinda want the Batman Dark Knight Joker...).


Kame Kame Ho.....

I remember last post i did mention about the stand hole cant fully plug into those figma figure...guess it has no problem with Kyon-san here.



This is influence by Kung Fu Panda


Lulu you cant geass me... my eyes are always kept close. Guess this is a weakness of Geass.


....no coment....


Spinzaku kick.......


Haruhi has a planned of a new movie!


It is called Fate Stay Geass...


Now lets add in all the character..... lol this is fun.....


Poor Mikuru always need to play the difficult character.

I guess playing them and making story for Figma are really fun. Really cant wait till i grab my hand on the remaining Itsuki, want to have the SOS dance.... but it is really troublesome to make a movie by adding in pic by pic.....

Guess this Figma is really poisonous.... now Figma Fate, and Figma Konata are release in the market.... more chaos will be brought to us collector.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

HGUC Zudah non-AB version – WIP part 2

Lets continue on the journey to build Zudah..... lazy and less paint way! All hail to the mighty Zeon mono-eye!!!

The big Jupiter boaster at the backpack does come with some molding line on it! So as usual i will scratch them away but if u dun touch up later u will see those scratches so for those tat dun plan to paint or just scratch build becareful loh!

Sry for the OOF picture... it is really hard to focus but u will notice there is a thin white line there.


Now the head part! We start with the horn part.... they are also other choices for the head part (it come with the normal grunt head and the test type head) but i will choose the commander type! Since with a horn it looks more cool.

This is the original horn before any treatment.

You will notice it is kind of thick and also the extra bits of the horn. So what I did to it is sharpen the horn and cut off that extra stuff. This is how it looks like now:

Much better now!

Now comes the Mono-eye part, Mono eye is the soul of Zeon, although it comes with a sticker but for mono eye i prefer painting them! Why i am so desperate to paint it now not wait till finish the whole kit! The reason is later on i will used plastic cement to glue the Zudah head in order to close the seam line gap, but by doing so i cant remove the eye from it anymore!


This is the Tamiya Acrylic Clear Red, I want to used Mr Hobby one but i just notice tat i dont own any! Anyway dun care wat remember to used Clear Red paint so the Mono Eye can still remain transparent (but in red color of course)


However i did it using the lazy way again, just used a forceps and clip on the mono eye and dip the whole thing into the bottle, then i remove it and leave it for drying before assembling!


Now this is the end result.

This end the second WIP part for Zudah! Next post will be on Figma Kyon instead of Code Geass Vincent becoz i suddenly receive it earlier than i think!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Figma Mikuru

Yup the SOS dan Mikuru has been acquire on Last Sunday! As usual packaging of all SOS dan member and along with their standard school uniform too.....this time i feel kind off plain and simple.





When i opened up the box, my first impression was OMG why so few accesories..... there is only 2 extra face expression and a pair of shoe, and that is all. This Figma figure is getting less and less accesories after every release. Hope GSC aint evil enough to come out releasing those add on furniture.


After looking at the accesories on her.... i when back and dig out all my SOS dan figma to do some comparison. Seem like Yuki Nagato has the most amount of accesories.

Mikuru's Stuff


All their stuff

After looking at the accessories i planned to play with the figure myself and when i was going to plug in the figma stand to Mikuru, i just notice Mikuru hair was blocking the way.... and if you want to plug it in u need to position her head looking right or left or through the gap between the hair......


this is really hard and frustating since her hair is blocking the way and the peg of the stand cant fully plug into her body.....


So i had no choice but to let the stand gently hold her body instead of plugging into her back....


now lets look at he figure, all i can said is her breast are bigger than Haruhi and Yuki.... and that is all.

Biggest among them all (as the original setting)





Lets have a mini theater...

Haruhi is not happy with the comparison


So she grab hold of Mikuru (yah like always), and let Yuki do some magic on her.


Yuki now present you....big boobs Haruhi!


Oh ya she has increase the size indeed.... now Haruhi can wobble her own as much as she likes

This is the fun off Action Figure, you can play almost anything with them! The more you collect the more story you can make...... my remaining 2 male member of SOS dan should be on their way towards Malaysia now. When i get them all i will make them dance!

Before I end this session lets have more fun with them!

Yes this is the pose, perfectly nice....


Now dance, dance your Neko dance Mikuru.


Seems like Lelouch cannot resist her dance and Arthur already betray him and Suzaku


Now where is that camera man Kyon.....

That all. Thank you for tuning in! Next stop will be back to Zudah WIP part 2, and also to let you ppl know my Code Geass Vincent kit is already 70% finish snap fitting.... will update soon after Zudah second WIP.

Monday, July 21, 2008

HGUC Zudah non-AB version – WIP part 1

Lately me damn lazy to build model kit! Only manage to finish snap fit my Code Geass Guren Type II 2 days ago.....but tat one need to paint so just leave it aside and wait till i finish AB my Alty 1/100 first. Now start a new one again this one not going to AB just gonna do some lazy OOB with minimum detailing to cover up the flaw!





So my current project is Zeon most favorable MS that failed the test stage for Mass Production....the mono eye tat could have change the fate of Zeon (maybe they could won the war faster if they used it). The mono eye that gonna go berserk if overheat.....HGUC Zudah!!!

This model kit color is 90% accurate as the Anime version, and it belongs to those realistic military like color scheme which really suitable for this lazy method I am going to do. Anyway all things need to start from square one, so I am gonna take you ppl on a walkthrough of my Work In Progress (WIP) Zudah.

As usual we need to snap fit the thing first, and during this process we gonna try to make the Zudah as good looking as the AB or fully painted version, the only problem tat make this method difficult is the seam line (the gap between 2 different parts when snapped together). Since you cant used Putty to cover up the seam lines, you are only left with the choices of using plastic cement.

So for the body part, since it is made by 2 parts, you get to see a really big seam line starting from the neck part all the way down to the lower part of the body. So I used the Mr. Hobby Cement to do the job, apply it on 2 parts then press them together! You may also used a rubber pan to strap them together.




After the whole thing dried up, cut off the extra bits of stuff that was formed when you press the 2 parts together. You will notice the seam line has been remove and the whole thing looks like 1 whole part. I personally left back the seam line in the arm part and just remove the seam lines for the outer area.



As u can see the part that is deepened in still can see the cement and the seam lines....really disgusting and not to my perfectionist standard so get some extra part from MSG Kotobukiya and glue it on to the hole!




Now it looks much better and also safe me all the difficulty in touching up tat area. Ok continue on to the Jupiter Boaster Backpack.

The backpack of Zudah is a combination of 3 parts (excluding the Jupiter Boaster), as we all know when combining 2 parts together there will always be seam line, but seam lines doesnt always need to be remove with Plastic Cement! We can modify it to make it look like a panel line.


For parts like this there will be a very noticeable seam line.


Sometime we dun need to cover up all seam line with Plastic Cement, we can make used of them and turn them into cool looking panel lines. What I did is I scratch the part where my Hobby knife is pointing (both side of the armor). The end product looks like something below:


OK beside Seam lines there are also some other lines than really make the armor part look ugly! These lines are form becoz of the mold itself, when 2 molds join together the gap between will form a thin line of the plastic.


To settle this problem u need to sand them with sand paper or scratch it off with your Hobby Knife! The result will be like the following




The last thing before I did before I end this post is I drill away the 4 button on the armor and added on some of my own Kotobukiya MSG parts on it! The result definitely is better than the original.


Ok next update will be on my newest haul Figma Mikuru, after that will be on my second WIP on Zudah stay tune!