German Tanker in Summer (3)

For the last couple of days, I have got the figure re-touched again.
The pants are darkened further with a cooler color tone while I have fixed some of the highlight area on the shoulders.
Both arms were fixed to the body now and the hands are painted roughly and would be re-touched soon.

Anyway, it is about time to think about how the figure is to be presented. I didn't want to hide the lower part of the figure into the cockpit of a turret. So I am trying to figure out a diorama around some piles of work stuffs. Hopefully I would have the setup ready with material on hand.

E-P1 X Macau

Last month, I have got myself a new toy, the Olympus E-P1 Camera. Its range-finder-camera outlook caught me up right the way. Last week, I have spend a couple of days visiting Macau and this is the first time the E-P1 is getting into its use.

Afterall, I am still a rookie at taking pictures.....

Denizen Miniatures 1:43 Racing Figures

Having some 1:35 AFV figures painted, I have just started looking in some racing figures in the scale of 1:43. As compared to those resin AFV figures, these metal racing figures are also of great values and quality! I am now waiting some 1:43 driver decals before I actually start painting these figures. I am sure this will be a lot of fun.

German Tanker in Summer (2)

After a month of time, I have finally returned to this figure. Some of the details on the uniform were painted previously and I have painted the trousers this time.

After the whole uniform is painted, I found that the up and down effect is not very good and I think I will have to retouch some of the area to integrate the up and the bottom parts of this figures.

I hope I will be working on this soon.
Thanks for reading.

MotoGP 2009 - Sepang Circuit

This is such an exciting moment when I recieved the mail delivery today, which is the tickets for the Sepang GP in Oct!

I will be going to the the GP event with my colleague who is also a big fan of Rossi. Let's see if we can get an autograph from Rossi and possibly other GP racers.

F-15C Eagle - Gulf Spirit (4)

After the base color is done, the darker camo color is to be done. I have regenerated the marking scheme to a 1:1 scale from the instruction. And then I have the mask cut from the copy. In this way, the camo can be applied free-handed. The paints used for the camo are Gunze #305 and #307.

After the camo is done, I have applied a thine layer of clear coat before I put on the decals.

I have found that the GX100 has been a lot more helpful with being used as a gloss medium as well as compared to the Gunze basic clear and super clear. The density delivered by GX100 is a lot more concrete and in this way, a thinner layer will do the job as a gloss medium.

As for the decal, these are original Hasegawa Japan decals and the quality is as usual. And little decal softener will do the job well enough. If too much softener is used, the decal will collapse striaght away....

F-15C Eagle - Gulf Spirit (3)

Progress has been much slow so far this week as I was actually no in a very good mood all week, even now.... But though, I have a bit spare time to put on some new pics here.

The main frame was assembled together with the front end, and gaps were all filled. I was actually planning to make use of the Eduards color photo etch here with these 2 F-15s. But I found that those sets on hand are for F-15E instead of F-15C/J. So I decided to work out the cockpit straight from the plastic parts, which doesn't look bad at all actually.







Afterwards, I have also fitted in the intake parts. And then I went straight ahead to get the jet painted. I have some Gunze flat black ramdomly in the first hand and then I have the assigned grey ( Gunze #308 + #317) focusing at each panel.



After the first round, I have refined the panels with more diluted paints and lower pressure. And that is it for at the moment and I will need to photo copy the marking scheme to get the actaully marking mask.