Papa Rat

Finished up the Wave 1/144 LED Colus. a fun little build. Noticing a lot of sinks in this kit among other strange design choices for construction

Looking great. Your patience and process are paying off. 👍

Wave had an inferno napalm 1/144 but scrapped it. Wish they would revisit. I can imagine Volks doing it though eventually. That would be great! I’m guessing 1/144 KOG with buster will come first.

It’s a fun one. I hear the larger and older 1/100 are a pain but I really want the flame launcher version and also the older black knight kit. One day

I am on the final stretch with the Wave 1/144 LED Mirage Colus. Just needs panel lines, decals and a few areas to dial in and touchup. Would also like to invest in a vise sometime. The empty jar with a pile of tac works but I want to up my game. Haha

@pengbuzz I’m so sorry for your loss and can’t imagine how you must be feeling right now. My heart goes out to you. I wish you all the best in life and hope to see you on here again someday. ♥️♥️♥️

I preordered the tomahawk right away when it went live but haven’t had the final payment go through yet. Has anyone on here already got one? Edit* HLJ says release is 3.31.26

@SteveTheFish Hey Thanks!

@SteveTheFish Thanks so much for the advice. I have some simple green degreaser I plan on using on the resin giving it a nice soak and a tooth brush scrub when the time comes for me to start the painting process. I’m excited for it. I’ll have to look up some tips on painting anime figures skin tones and hair shading. It did come with eye decals which is nice and convenient. 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️ @Big s 🤘horns up

@derex3592 hull yeah! That’s looking great! John Moscato. I’ll look him up and look for the kits. I think I remember a Phalanx kit a year back? I’ll have to search. I’ll definitely be on the lookout for anything in the future. Thanks and I look forward to seeing more pics of your collection. 🤤 Started this reissue of an older 1/144 HM L-Gaim Bat-Shu. It’s only two runners, some hoses and very simple. No decals. Got the test fit done today and will get this rolling next week. I have lots of other more modern kits in the mix too but after the Spartan I want to do another tired old kit.

Hahahaha thanks

Thanks. Hahaha. Yeah there are some rough spots for sure. No zooming in on the photos allowed 😂 I really enjoyed this one. Super fun

I have successfully brought the Spartan back from the dead using new DNA technology 🦖. Wait, wrong movie. It has its issues but like I said, I gave this 75% effort 100% of the time or something like that. I think it came out alright for a $20 kit. Please give us a modern version of this beautiful design you cowards!

@Big s thanks so much. Almost done. @wm cheng thanks. I have a soft spot for these older kits. Don’t get me wrong though… modern kits are awesome but sometimes certain designs are only available as vintage releases. @derex3592 Thanks. Wow! You have an awesome collection right there! Ummmm those Invid…are those kits or toys? Especially the tall “queen/king?” Those are crazy cool! Also very excited to see the tank come together. 👍

When the sun shines in Portland during the winter you get work done outside.

Thanks. I hope I can stick the landing. 😬

Almost there. A few more layers…red, topcoat, decals, panel line and we are good. I decided to pant the clear lens parts with clear red on front and silver on back. Sort of candy-ish but a clear middle refracting light.

I hope you are right. The 1/200 scale is sort of a perfect size for it, but I’d gladly take a 1/100 if it happens.

Green is down and time to mask off and paint dark gray and white areas. Giving this build a full 75% effort 😂

You got it!!! 🤤

Ok last one for today. Been home with a sick kiddo today so have some time on my hands. I wanted to share some pics of my monster build from last year. Spooky stuff right here. Alignment on the main cannons was an issue for me and they look so flat and almost on the same plane and less staggered like in the artwork. Also some seam issues lurking that I never dialed in. I would love an updated version of this kit. This was a fun one and I learned so much from it.

I am in the process of cleaning up my stash, cataloging my kit manuals, decals and extra parts hands etc… and recycling all these empty boxes. Anyway I discovered I had a resin kit in my stash all this time and never opened it and completely overlooked it. I don’t even remember when I bought it. Lol. I’m old and will use that as my excuse. Anyway I pinned it up quick this morning. It’s very very basic with only a few pieces but needs lots of clean up. It’s the Hasegawa Macross DYRL Miria non scale figure. This will be my first figure build and hope to work on it this year if possible. It will look nice next to her Q-Rau

Millions of seam lines later I’m about to prime this 🦖 today. I’m guessing I’ll have to do additional surface prep once the primer reveals errors in my hasty work. I had lots of ambitious plans for this old fella but I am feeling lazy so this will be a straight build without modding anything.

Got some better pics of an old kit I build this past year. I’m so looking forward to the new version coming out this year.

@505thAirborne Wow that came out great! It’s hard to tell how big it is but it really has a presence