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Read more about the article VE-1 Elintseeker Gerwalk – Only took 17 years, 4 months, 30 days – but it’s done!

VE-1 Elintseeker Gerwalk – Only took 17 years, 4 months, 30 days – but it’s done!

My first post about this kit was September 16, 2007 when I unboxed and started with a test fit. Fast forward another 7 years to April 2015 for another attempt, this time changing from a straight aircraft build to the Gerwalk. And here we are today, a few months shy of 10 years later. IT IS DONE GODDAMNIT! I actually finished this kit. And I thought my 8 year VP Hi Nu project was long in the tooth. Motivation is actually mostly because of this year’s SCGMC theme (year 2025) which is “Macrotech/Robocross” most of you get the joke. For others, look up Robotech in all it’s storied history.

The old kit was moved several times with workshop upgrades and several location changes. I opened it up every now and again to work on it, mostly the first time and 7 years later, but I wasn’t sure if I still had all the parts. The kit was available, so sometime late last year, I just ordered a new one and started this up at a local build gathering. What is also new is that I now have the Super Valkyrie Gerwalk kits that I can use instead of just the skinny Valkyrie Gerwalk. All that work done 10 years ago is now garbage for the most part.

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Read more about the article Finally, getting around to posting up the pictures from SCGMC 2024

Finally, getting around to posting up the pictures from SCGMC 2024

It’s been a busy end of 2024, hell, most of 2024 was crazy busy for me. Finally getting around to posting up the pictures from the show

Here are some quick stats for the show this year. We have a total of 122 individual entrants. And a total of 310 model entries. That’s crazy.

Here is a screen cap of our winners list

Note that our Theme and Experts only have a single winner but our calculating spreadsheet shows the two runners up. Also notice how close some of the first, second, and third place winners are in points. You guys are getting crazy good! We’re also working on improving judging and going to try to do more splits for categories that are huge.

Remember, the theme for this coming year’s SCGMC is ROBOCROSS; broken down, you can see Robotech and Macross, but with any of our themes, just by name alone, we know you guys will run with that and throw us some very creative takes on the theme. See you all in November!

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Read more about the article Volks A Brand Subaru Progress Part 2 and Completion

Volks A Brand Subaru Progress Part 2 and Completion

I’ve been working on the Subaru figure on and off for the past few weeks and really testing out these new curved knife files. I’m using using straight edge files and even some of those are not thin enough to get into the areas I need. And those files are straight edges, so curved surfaces need a bit of care to not flatten things out; so these curved tools are amazing! But sanding is boring, and really there’s not much to see unless put in extreme zoom.

After all the initial sanding is done, the parts are thrown into a bath of industrial strength degreaser to remove any mold release still on the kit as well as just cleaning it. Soaking over night, the parts are rinsed and thrown into the ultra sonic cleaner to scrub them clean.

And now the fun begins. Fixing all those gaps lamented in the previous post. There are two different putties at work here. The major filler is a two part epoxy putty that fills the majority of the gap area. It takes about a day for that to fully cure. But once done, I move to light curing putty for quick work. I can putty, sand, repeat relatively quickly.

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Volks A Brand Subaru

This is a kit from 2008, well, the original was from 2008 out of the C3X Chara Hobby show sold in a small production run by Volks. The character is from Choukou Sennin Haruka and is one of those ecchi choose how to molest the characters kind of games. She has the options for before and after a battle from the game for which I guess she loses her right arm/hand. It makes for a better looking pose than with the sculpted hand. Here are some reference pictures:

This is a recast from that kit that I picked up around 2011. I think I pinned up the kit when I first got it and that’s about all I did. I feel like working on something fairly easy, so I picked a figure kit. I got a set of new tools that I want to try out on the kit. Step one was to remove all the old pins and redo everything

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