Happy Easter everyone

Kanu WIP

Just got this kit in the mail. It is a commission project, so I have to put my kits on hold for a little bit. I really like this kit, so its not a problem.

This is Kanu from Ikkitoisen, she have two different bodies and two skirts. I inspected the parts and found only few small problems. There is some seam lines on the legs and hair pieces have some extra resin, but I don't think it will take me long to fix it.

For now she is taking a bath in my degrease. I will have to finish one other commission project, its due on Saturday, so Kanu have to wait a little bit.

New kits

I am totaly broke right now, I just recieved three kits in the mail and two more is on the way to me. My wallet is hurting , but the rest of me is dancing I just love recieving green packages from E2046.

Here is small run down on my purchases. Two of the kits are from Ori section on E.
I got Qiao Yin from Elegance and Elf Ranger from Darkness. Both of them came in the separete paper boxes with instructions. Both of them are really good quality. Now the only problem is that I have to figure out the colors for them. The original colors are nice, but I love playing around with my own colors (otherwise I can just buy a PVC or something

The other kit I got was from a forum member (thank you bustyanimegal). She is Mai from King of Fighters. This is pretty old kit (2001) and I never seen this kit before. Most of the Mai's kits are way too sexy (slutty) for me, but this one have lots of movement and character.
I was so excited when I got her, that I already started to work on her

The other two kits that are on the way are Roxenne and HTK-09 .

Plus, now with all of the new kits from Winter Festival showing up, I think my waller is in very, very big trouble. Good thing that I got some tax return coming :D

Ikkitoisen girl is done

Finally my Chouun is done. I finished up her base with the name of the show. Thanks to my sister for stroke order. I used some heavy liquitex acrilic gel for making the kanji more 3D. I think it turned out very nice.

The sword is done too.

So today, I took some of the completed Chouun. Here is the result.

And here is all of the parts. She can be changed anyway I want. Two heads, two bodies, four different posabilities.

More pictures at http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/zasranka1/Ikkitoisen/


P.S. If anybody is interested, she is for sale.

I am back!

I am finally back home from my trip. I had to go to Chicago with my sister for her interview. She applied for working as a teacher in Japan. So I really really hope she gets this job , because it will save me so much money in shipping the items from Japan and Yahoo!Japan. Plus I will definetly go visit her.

Here is some pictures of the "Windy City" (and it really was very windy). The weather was very cold and it snow/rained 75% of the time, but it was still fun.

Don't you just love the fog effect on the top of the buildings? It was right before the rain. Looks cool and it felt even cooler (or should I say colder). At least we got some very good food.

The good thing is that I still have few days free before I have to go back to work. So tomorrow I will get to work on my kits.

Chouun Shiryu Update

For the last few days I didn't had too much time to work on Chouun, but I got some stuff done. As promised, I was doing a beauty salon stuff on her.

Thanks to Ilaria, I got a good reference picture for the eyes (Thank you dear again). The good thing is that I had to paint only one set of eyes, the other face have her eyes closed.

The only thing that is bugging me is that when I put her hair on and her head on the body, it is very hard to see her eyes. I have to really lean under to pick at her face. I think that she will need to be sitting somewhere up higher on the shelves and look down on people.

Also I've been working on her nails. I dicided to stick with natural color, so just some french manicure and she is ready to battle. Looking at the picture, maybe I need some manicure done too.

The last step (the hair) was kind of giving me a problem. I had to repaint her hair twice already. I had to putty the hair a little bit more (the place where the bangs and the main hair meet) and repaint it. I think I am done with that, but I have to double check first.

Also I am almost done with her sword and her shirt colar.
She is almost done, yeah

Mikuru is done

I am so happy, my Mikuru is finally done. She looks like a very easy kit, but I had some problems with her. Her legs had to be repositioned few times, because the alignment of it have to be perfect to put the frog costume on. The costume is removable with magnets, so I can show her nice legs off .
I painted the inside of the suit with shimering green color, so it looks like a silk, and outside with very flat color, so it looks fuzzy. Didn't really got the result I was looking for, but I like it anyway.

For the base, I used a kitchen tile I got in the hardware store. It is very nice, but very very hard to drill. If you ever plan to drill one, make sure you get a very fast and strong drill for hard surfaces, otherwise its not going to work.

I finally desided to get an account at the Photobucket, so here is the rest of the pictures http://s254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/zasranka1/Mikuru%20from%20Haruhi/

Chouun Shiryu part 2

Finally I got a nerve to work on Chouun skirt. It was accually not too bad, I guess I made it out too be more in my mind then it acually was. It really helps to have the right kind of tools when you do this. I used a very thin masking tape (sorry don't remember the brand) and just went around the skirt. The second row was a little bit harder, just because it had to be more alligned to the first one, but I did it.
This is skirt with only the tape before I painted it brown (chocolade brown with some burned siena shadows). Oh yeah, I painted red first and mask it after.

After the base skirt color, but before I remoded the tape.

After the tape was removed. It still need some touch ups on the strips and some more shadows (pastel).

This is the final skirt with all hightlight, shadows and strips. All done on the same day.

Of course, after finishing the skirt, I just had to see how Chouun will look together. She still need some work, but the lower and middle part of her body is done. The only thing to do is her finger nails, hair, and eyes (regular girls day at the spa)

P.S. If you still didn't figure it out I finally learned how to put onion heads in my blog.

Small update

It is very cold outside right now and there is nothing on TV, so I decided to spend couple of hours in my basement painting.

I like making resin models, I like all steps of doing it, but my most favorite part is painting. You can see how your all previour hard work on fixing the kit is paying off. The kit is becoming alive (wha-ha-ha, I created a monster lol ) So anyway, right now I get to paing two kits at the same time.

Mikuru is almost done. Today I finally attached her head and finished up on touching up her body (that did not sounds right O_0 ). So now the only thing I have to do with her is fix her front part of the frog costume. The seam lines where the arms are attached have to be sanded and repainted.

There is few things that I am kind of dissapointed in Mikuru. She have such a nice sculpted body, but most of it is kind of hidden by the hair or the position of her body. Another this is that I can't fix her to a base permanently because her back part of the frog costume will not come off or on. And I really would like to make the costume removable. Oh well, I will think of something.

For my other project, I got to finish up her shoes. I really love how they turned out. So for now she have her two main bodies, legs and heads ( no eyes yet) done. I am leaving masking the skirt until the last posible minute. Oh, and the hair, must not forget the hair.

I am very luck that I have some free time right now, I know that soon it will be over and I will only get to work on my girls maybe ones a week.

Mikuru part 2

I got to work on my Mikuru today for a few hours. She is coming along very fast now. The only thing I have to remember is not to rush it. I make way too many mistakes when I rush things. I keep telling myself: "patience is a vertue, patience is a vertue, don't touch the body, let the glue dry, patience is a vertue".

For such a easy kit (only about 10 parts) she is acually very complicated. I am trying to make her frog suit removable, so the alignment of the parts have to be pretty much perfect. I had to redo the legs few times, because they would not fit properly into the suit. I think I fixed most of the fitting problems for now and I only have few minor detailes to fix.

I had lots of fun painting the frog suit. It is not suppose to be real frog, so I got to use some of my brightest green colors. The shadows on the frog a little bit over done, but that what I was trying to achive. I really like it.

So for tonight, poor Mikuru is standing without the head on my table and waiting for me to finally finish her up. Sorry Mikuru, not for another 2-3 days at least. I am going to be very busy with other stuff.