Winter Wonder Festival 2010, February the 7th from 10am to 5pm at Makuhari Messe.

The Scale120 team will be hosting the Mystery 10 Dealer Table this time, Table# B18-12.

We’ll have three 1/20 Scale Resin LunaDivers for sale at 38,000 each and the original sample LunaDiver that took 2nd Place overall at Showcase #5 last year will be on display.

Please click on the logo for the web page and let me know if you’d like to meet up, we’ll be at the Mystery 10 Dealer Booth!

Cheers,

Lin.K

News from Hasegawa’s Maschinen Krieger page, the Hasegawa Falke Excimer Laser Version is set for release, February 25th 2010! There’s a new sprue with many new upgrades for your Falke and this release is set to include a DVD of Takase-san’s excellent CG work.

The painting shown here is one by talented artist Travis Wright and was on show at the 2008 Maschinen Krieger Showcase 4 and depicts an Excimer laser armed Falke.

Please see more of his excellent art including many maschinen Krieger pieces here at Neech Art.

Cheers,

Lin.K

Finally some progress to show! It’s been quite cold here in Tokyo and I need to work quasi “outside” because of both the paints I am using, Mr. Color and Gaia Notes Lacquer Paints. That plus I used a very hybrid style on this one with rattle cans, handbrushing and airbrush once again so the only times avaialble to me, late at night, have been too cold and too much of a disruption for the family. Thankfully a long weekend here has given me some marginally warmer daytime to use.

The process here is Mr. Color Gloss Black can, Mr. Color Gloss Grand Prix White can, handbrushing with a custom mix of Mr. Color Off white, Yellow and Gaia Notes ex-White to make up my version of an “Anti- Flash White”, a genre specific Maschinen Krieger name given to a yellowish off-white paint applied to Space Equipment as protection and then the same further diluted with Self Levelling Thinner and airbrushed to slightly reduce the handbrushed effect for the 1/35th scale.

It’s a slightly more involved process than most folks usually use but I feel it provides the best of all worlds, some of the speed and efficiency of both rattle cans and airbrush as well as the wonderful scaling and added interest effects through the brush marks that only hand-brushing can provide. Here my goal was to mimic the process on the 1/20 scale version and as possible reduce it down to 1/35.

Here’s the 1/20 scale at the same stage for comparison. I really should have checked these photos before working on it this afternoon, I could have left it a little more untidy!

Next up, the camo scheme!

Lin.K

How’s this for my last update of an excellent Maschinen Krieger year, an open box report of Rainbow Egg’s fantastic 1/20 Groβer Hund Altair! Now I wrote “review” for the sake of making it easier to find via search engines but really, who am I to say “review” with regards to anything produced by Katoo-san. His RainBow Egg line of Garage Kits are really the best overall I have seen so far. Quality, design, full multi-media contents and large vendor quality soft materials including the box art, decals, Paint (camo) Cards, reference photographs of Kow Yokoyama Sensei Originals and clearly illustrated instructions.

The contents are very straight forward and I must admit to being really, really impressed once again. It appears you can build not only the space borne version, the GH Altair , but also the ground version with this kit and the Paint (camo) Card suggests schemes for both types.

My apologies in advance for the Scale 120 logo on the shots, I want to share the contents of the box as much as possible whilst also protecting the excellent work of the people involved in the project.

Hope you enjoy the photographs and I wish you all the best for a healthy and prosperous New Year with plenty of fun modelling projects.

Cheers,

Lin.K

Finally all put together and cleaned up and a nice coat of Tamiya Surfacer to even it out for some photographs to show the kit’s wonderful form and details. I usually don’t use a surfacer on the 1/20th scale kits but thought that a slightly smoother surface on this space unit would suit the finish and it has a great many seams that it’s good to spot before going further.

When first putting the kit together I must admit to thinking it felt a little small but now believe it’s a really good size for taking in the complex shape and design of the LunaDiver Stingray and am very happy I’ve had the chance to work on this one. It’s a beautifully designed vehicle and Hasegawa have done a fantastic job of bringing it to us in styrene form.

Next stop, can finally get to painting Mini Red J!

Cheers,

Lin.K