SteveTheFish

More progress on my Eva girl sofubi set. Unfortunately, I cannot do justice to the original character designs by Sadamoto with a paintbrush, but I guess this effort is acceptable. No eyebrows yet and the hair color you see is merely preshading. But I suppose the eyes for Rei and Asuka are done, with the finishing touch being the light pools in their eyes.

There isn't an acquisitions thread as far as I can see, so I guess I'll post it here. New kits! I don't usually have much interest in Gundam kits, but these old Sentinel kits are real cool. My friend in the UK sent this old Imai Macross kit to me!

Wow, that's amazing!

Yes, I built that kit when I was in high school. I hand-painted it all with Testors enamel paints and it more or less didn't look too bad. It came with the Ferengi ship and the big Romulan ship too. So this is what I put together last night. I've never bought any Frame Arms Girls kits or anything like that. On a whim, I bought a Bandai 30 Minutes Sisters kit with a pretty dark complexion. I also bought some option parts to give her black pigtails and sexy tits. I'm on vacation at the in-laws' place this week. We have our room here with a TV and such, and I have a modeling table with various modeling supplies I keep here to work on models whenever we stay here. What I need to do is pop the parts apart and sand down the gates better. When I get home, I plan to do a flat coat on the flesh parts. I can use a Faber Castel pencil to do some shading on her butt cheeks and underboobs, then give it another flat coat to seal it in. I think I'll also do a wash of Tamiya panel line accent color on her hair to give it more life, then do a flat coat on that too. Maybe do a semigloss finish on her outfit. After sanding work, I may need to use some plastic polish to smooth it, or just very high grit sanding sponges. After a clear coat, it should have a painted look.

Thanks! She's only 12cm tall. I only wish I had added some flat base to her hair as it's a bit shiny. I painted her eyes with Delta Ceramcoat acrylics, but the rest is V-Color paints. The emblem on her chest was hand-painted with V-Color paints mixed with retarder. It could've turned out better, but my original plan was to mask it off and airbrush the black and white. The detail was a bit too soft to accomplish that, so I hand-painted it. The gold trim was airbrushed though. Hi-Q Parts makes circle masks that made it possible.

Here's something else I recently completed. An SD sofubi figure of Devil Hunter Yohko by Falchion. I used V-Color vinyl paints. Here is a photoset of this build: https://stevethefishdotnet.tumblr.com/post/768754345306112000/falchion-sd-devil-hunter-yohko-sofubi-figure-build

I've had this done for a while now, but I didn't get around to taking proper photos of it until recently. This is Arii's 1:100 scale Regult Recon Pod with some aftermarket customization parts. Namely Wave's H-Eyes lens parts to replace the molded detail I filed off. Here is a photoset of the kit with a description of the build: https://stevethefishdotnet.tumblr.com/post/768755550031921152/arii-1100-macross-regult-scout-type-battlepod

Wow. A plastic deodorant stick, repurposed as a space destroyer. I found this on Pinterest. https://jp.pinterest.com/pin/1548181162268568/

That's a wild design. Geometric patterns in loud colors... It reminds me of some design you'd see on a Trapper Keeper from 1991 or something.

It's cool to see the 1:100 Destroids happening. Several years ago, I built Arii's Defender and Imai's Phalanx. Arii has better surface detail, decals, and they employed polycaps, however Imai's overall proportions and fit are superior. Imai didn't do a good job with providing locator pins on a lot of their parts though. I've no idea why. Imai provided decals to represent the "Ichijou molds" on their UN Spacy mecha and decals for the sensors on Regults, whereas Arii would have that surface detail molded. Arii provided the cool "nose art" for their Destroid kits too. It's just a shame that their stuff looks a bit awkward when built.

My friend took this pic at the show. Looks like Plamax is getting into the S-Valks. It's new to me. I probably haven't been following this as closely as you guys.

These are pics my friend took at the event today.

Today begins the All-Japan Model Hobby Show in Tokyo. I was unable to save up money to attend like I could last year. My daughter is in high school now and it's so expensive. (Yet Japanese politicians wring their hands and wonder why the birth rate is plummeting...) My friend who works for Hobby Japan will probably be there and he's a huge Macross fan too, but I don't know when/if he would be free to take a look around. My other friend who'll be there is Brian from Beaver (you may know him from the HLJ videos), but he's not into Macross, so he wouldn't know what's what really. He's big on Godzilla stuff and not really any anime. I really hope we may see a prototype Glaug that's been 3D printed or something. Or something new from Crusher Jor or Dirty Pair...

@MechTech I'd say black on the blue and dark gray on the light gray would look better, assuming you have dark gray panel line color. @wm cheng Brilliant recovery!

Looks like GoLion's sword, but I wouldn't know if it was the Bandai kit or the new Moderoid kit. Personally, I'm holding out for a Dairugger XV Moderoid. I'd be all over that.