November 15, 2008 by xplan303ex
I’ve made some progress on the AH Hellhound. The kit goes together pretty well, no massive amounts of putty have been needed, although the wings required the filling of a pretty wide gap. I also started modifying the Hind rotor parts so they will fit together with the Hellhound, no problems there so far. I decided to also replace the rear landing gear with parts from the Hind kit. I ordered some Hasegawa pilot figures to see if I replace the ones that came with the kit, depending on how good they are.
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November 1, 2008 by xplan303ex
Working on two projects at a time can be fun, also helpful when one of the projects is just hurdle after hurdle, like the Macross Valkyrie. I have been decaling for a while now, actually managed to damage some of the decals and I am looking for a replacement now, but it is taking more shape as the countless decals get laid down. By the way, whoever decided to not print the Macross logo with a white background but instead makes it two separate decals needs to get fired!
The AH Hellhound is coming along nicely, not to many fit problems. I finished the cockpit and joined the fuselage halves, almost no putty required. Most of the details I added to the cockpit can be barely seen, with the canopy on I think none of it will be seen. I used the Hind instrument decal on the cockpit, makes a huge difference. After the assembly of the fuselage I decided to remove some of the photoetch details on the seat, since they will most likely fall with manipulation, I had also done a very sloppy job painting them.
Posted in Scale modeling | Tagged macross, vf-1s, ah hellhound | 1 Comment »
October 19, 2008 by xplan303ex
I started work on the AH Hellhound by Kotobukiya, I didn’t expect the cockpit to have great detail, but it is bare, literally. The cockpit is just a tub with no detail whatsoever. Unfortunately the Hind kit also has a poor cockpit, nothing to take from there. So I decided to use bits of left over photoetch to create some details, based on a very limited sketch of the cockpit that is in the instruction booklet. This is the result so far.
Posted in Scale modeling | Tagged ah hellhound, kotobukiya, cockpit | 1 Comment »
October 17, 2008 by xplan303ex
I never work on more than one modeling project at a time, but well, there’s a first time for everything, so I am starting this build that should be simple, I hope it is simple, since I want this and other model to be ready for a spring show here in Seattle. It’s the AH Hellhound from Patlabor 2. I bought this model way over priced at a local anime store (never again), it is not too detailed, so why not do some kit bashing with a 1/72 Esci Mi-24 Hind? The Esci kit was found for a cheap price at one of the local hobby shops (there aren’t many of those in Brooklyn), so far I have determined that at least the rotor is going to come from this kit. Looks like a decent kit, I feel bad about breaking it apart.
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October 17, 2008 by xplan303ex
lots of masking! I wasn’t aware that a lot of the color sections of the fuselage are provided as decals by Hasegawa. Applying decals is to me one of the hardest parts of building a model, so I prefer painting whenever possible, so I decided to mask and paint as much as I could and not have to deal with silvering, broken decals, etc etc. I also masked and painted the canopy, which I think turned out really good, after removing a mold line right through the middle, sanding it and dipping it in Future it looks great.
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