Hi Guys!

Yokoyama Sensei has just uploaded his blog with the new figure by Brickworks that will most likely be sold in a set along with the WAVE S.A.F.S just like the Nitto Original.

Please check here for more excellent photos by Sensei and the link at the bottom of the page to see the happy pilot with the Ms. Lopez figure, also a Sensei Original paint job.

Very cool, hope you like the pics and enjoy Sensei’s excellent figure painting!!

Lin.K

1/35 SS-87 F6 Weltraun Jagd P.O.D. “Ferkel”.

Rainbow Egg are releasing another Garage Kit, the 1/35 Ferkel as seen on pages 62 & 63 of the Maschinen Krieger II, Chronicle and Encyclopedia.

Rainbow Egg’s kit will be in 1/35 Scale as per the original made by Kow Yokoyama-Sensei. We can expect to enjoy Katoo-san’s famous impeccable attention to detail and quality as always.

The basic price (all in JPY) in Japan is ¥24,000. I then ship to you for the price listed on EMS and we are expecting the boxed kit to come in at very close to 900 g for one Ferkel, 1600 g for 2 Ferkels. Please check shipping to your region here. I’ll need 4% of the total to cover international PayPal transfer, the only way I can accept international payments at this time.

We are expecting to start shipping shortly, please email me to place an order if you haven’t done so already.

Complete! This “side project” was fulfilling it’s role nicely, sitting off on the side! Learned a great deal from this one including the best reason for writing detailed notes on how I am completing models. Only 6 mths or so old and I had no real idea how I had finished this one so the notes come in very handy for future reference!

To finish up, I added a little more color to the base with acrylics and pigments, added more flat and gloss areas with acrylic varnishes from Vallejo and painted some details like the windows and sensors and added it all together.

Really enjoy this piece now that it’s done and would like to do more vignettes like this.

Hope you like it!!!

Lin.K

3Q Models Panzer Kampf Anzug Ausf M “Melusine” all done!

The Strahl Techs were in a little hurry on this one, they forgot the fuel cap cover and seem to have spilled a little.

Just on a month of little snippets of “free time’ here and there to do this one and perhaps not a bad target. Very much impressed with the genius of the Melusine design. Of course I’ve always liked how they look but it wasn’t until making one that I feel I can understand the shapes and geometry more and it certainly doesn’t hurt that it seems to be the biggest of the suit models, very cool.

Full custom build from the box, with all joints replaced and hand sculpted with Tamiya Putty -Quick type and fixed in pose. I replaced the hand with one from another kit, both to have one with a little more of a natural pose and because I wanted something bigger. Much bigger! I’ll make another with the standard hand but for this one, I wanted to try one with Gorilla Grip!

Usual routines for the finish, Mr. Color and Gaia Notes lacquer paints in custom mixes over a dark gray from a rattle can for the base. Weathering with enamels, oils, acrylics and some pigments.

Groundwork is made up of plaster and the contents from the shake and heat bags that my wife loves as hand-warmers in her coats in the winter. Painted and weathered with acrylics again.

Hope you like this one!

Lin.K

WAVE Raptor completed. This is an old model for me, finished a little over a year ago so it’s a nice comparison for the finish on the recent SAFS. It’s a little rough and less technical in some ways but I do like the smooth hand-brush/airbrush finish and the zenithal highlight effect. If making it again today, the pose and groundwork would all be a little different but that’s another good thing about dusting off old models and finishing them up, a little bit of perspective for how much we’ve learnt and grown.

It’s a full custom job, replaced joints that are sculpted from putty, custom metal springs and 2 stage aerial.

Thanks for looking, hope you like it.

Lin.K