From the ridiculous comes the sublime

I want to take a break from doing difficult and complicated kits.

On Hobbyfanatics some of us have been having a back-and-forth about metallic gold finishes on our kits, and it got me itching to try my hand at doing a pristine airbushed gold finish on a kit.

So I remembered this ancient kit I picked up at a con last year. I practically fell over on the tiled concrete floor when I saw this thing in one of the little exhibitor stalls. It's KING JOE from Ultra Seven!


It's clearly Chinese in origin, but it does have a foil sticker showing the Tsuburaya seal of licensing approval. I'm guessing it's between 20 and 30 years old. It only has 10 parts, a couple of which don't even appear on the instruction sheet, so I'll have to figure that one out.


It also has this:


Yes, it's a windup toy!

I'll be posting again soon with a video of the test-fit stage in walking (staggering?) action.

Hyakushiki is done

ACen presentation

Check out the link here for more info about my panel at Anime Central next month.

Hyaku Shiki!

No decals/stickers yet. I put those on last night and need to make a few final adjustments. Final pictures soon.






One legged (I was detailing the other leg).

Detailing on the KOG

Here's a few pictures of some detailing I did on my KOG Joker 3100 Gold Plated Edition last night. I tried to do this with an acrylic wash over a layer of gloss coat. Lucky I tried that on just a small section of the top of the head, because cleaning up the wash with an alcohol swab nearly had disastrous results in that it started ripping chunks of the clear orange acrylic off from on top of the chrome plate.

I was lucky enough to be able to grab an extra fine point black Gundam marker at a hobby shop yesterday and that did the trick.

Have other people had trouble keeping these markers flowing properly? I had to keep a note card next to me to blot the pen tip regularly.