What’s better than a delivery door knock on a rainy Saturday morning? Seeing the big “Hasegawa Hobby Kits” box!!!
Will do a more thorough Open Box Report shortly but for now, this is what you get. Sexy desert orange sprues, really surprised and impressed with the color,  they are motivating me to start one [...]

Here I’ve wanted to make it a little more 1950’s Army Man Green, so a glaze/filter of Mig Productions “Industrial Earth” oil paint which seems to be a Burnt Umber -Green Shade. The same color with some Winsor Newton Lamp Black added and lightly painted into shadows and detail lines. Reworked with a couple [...]

Next up I’ve applied the decals as per the box instructions straight to the paintwork, as it’s already a semi-gloss finish from the excellent Mr. Color paints. Great quality decals and they go on very nicely. I trim them with fine scissors and a hobby knife to eliminate excess film.
Letting the decals dry over night, I [...]

Open box review also on the way, but first, I just couldn’t wait to make one of these because it looked really fun. Easiest kit in the range so far for me, even better fit overall than the Snake-Eye and less parts and seams than even the AFS!
Some quick Work In Progress shots here, the [...]

A Winter Wonder Festival 2010 Report… kind of… I’m actually waiting on a couple of friends whom write great reports and document the event well and will share links to them. My viewpoint was extremely narrow this year in working the Mystery 10 dealer table at one end of the massive venue and attending the [...]