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Corvus Crow
The Fireraven
Tuesday, 07. September 2010, 6:42
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Peorth from Ah! My Goddess
This modelkit had the best quality so far. It's also a 1/6 scale vinyl kit and relatively easy to assemble. The only problem was, as usual, the hair: a part seemed to be missing so I had to model this part with epoxy-putty. Due to the creation process, the backside of the leather straps was not that smooth; so I laminated it with glasfiber and resin and sanded it down afterwards. This also made the thin straps more stable. The rest of the kit was of a good quality and fitted together easily. I think this is my best kit so far. The base looks not that good. I made it very quickly and didn't pay that much attention to the corners.
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Skuld from Ah! My Goddess
This is a 1/8 scale vinyl modelkit and it's not a good idea to choose this if you have never done a modelkit before. It has the same problems like the Mikami kit: deformations. I had to re-model the area around the neck and fill several gaps. It also seems to lean back more than intended; but there was no way to fix that since I had already colored some parts. This time, I haven't filled the kit with resin. I would recommend it though, since it increases stability and there are also larger areas you can glue together.
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Mikami from Ghost Sweeper Mikami
This actually is what you call a real modelkit. It's a vinyl kit what makes it susceptible to deforming; additionally, existing deformations are nearly impossible to fix since the vinyl tends to return to its original shape. Therefore I filled the parts of the kit with a special resin mixture to make it more resistable. It came in a rather poor quality: the legs were deformed, the two parts of her hair didn't fit together at all and all the extras were missing what makes me think that it is a pirated copy. That would also explain the very cheap price I got it for.I colored the larger areas of the kit with an airbrush and did the few details with a fine brush. If you are a novice to airbrush and not experienced in mixing colors, I would suggest to start with a kit like this one; you don't even need to mask anything, if you paint the parts (legs, dress, upper torso and hair) separately and assemble them later. All colors are standard colors from Tamiya/Revell and not mixed so you can easily fix errors without having to worry about mixture recipies. The base is made out of real wood and a pile of little stones; two little iron wires in her shoes help to keep her on the base. But the kit still needs to be handled carefully or it will fall off. 
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Lara Croft (B-Suit Version)
I got the idea for this bikini version of Lara Croft from a picture that shows her in the same pose. It is based on the "Tomb Raider Lara Croft Statue" that has been sold a few years ago. I created a wax copy of the statue and removed the add-ons, like the backpack, cloths, boots and so on. Since it was impossible to cut away the guns, I had to create new hands for her and then fixed her legs and arms in their final positions. After that, I made a silicone mold and filled it with resin. The hard resin allowed me to do the fine-tuning: filling pits and scratches and sanding her to get a smooth surface. I only colored the skin with the airbrush and used a normal brush for the rest. It took me about 2 years to finish it; most of the time it was just lying around, since I don't force myself to work on a kit. If I just count the time that I actually worked on it, then I guess it took me something between 100 and 150 hours to complete it.
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Purgatori from Lady Death
This kit is based on the action-figure sculptured by Clayburn Moore. I bought this figure some years ago at a comic con and made a resin copy of it back in 1997. The half-finished kit was lying around for about four years, until I decided to finish it. There are just a few differences between the copy and the original, like her shoulder-pads and the horns. It was the first kit I ever did and it taught me a lot about modeling. I first airbrushed it completely black, what makes other colors on top of the black ground appear darker. Some masking helped me to keep the red away from her boots, arms and the back of her wings.
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