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Read more about the article Over a year since the last post means over a year since the last kit

Over a year since the last post means over a year since the last kit

Last year, October 2025; the RE 100 Den’an-Gei was released as a P-Bandai and I immediately jumped on getting one. Not because I was going to build it, but I figured I could mod it to a Den’an-Zon; my favorite kit from F91. The F91 movie came out in 1991 when I was in High School. I had the original 1/100 kit when it was released in the early 90’s as well. No idea where that kit went, but I think I hand painted it. Well, I never got around to ever building the Gei this past year and a few months ago, the Den’an-Zon was announced, so forever stuck into the backlog will be the Gei. The Zon arrived on Oct 14th and I pretty much opened the damn box and started immediately on it. I figured I could finish by Nov 7 *cough*SCGMC*cough* Formula Theme. The decals were stickers so I ordered some third party ones from a shop in the UK hoping they’d arrive in time during the build.

I really like the look of the Germanesque military helmet/gas mask look. I like this kit so much that I snuck it into the design of this year’s SCGMC T-Shirt we’ll have at the show on Sat.

Now to get to snapping and sanding the kit.

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Read more about the article Wow, another post another build, the new Hasegawa Glaug kit!

Wow, another post another build, the new Hasegawa Glaug kit!

So yeah, I didn’t think I’d get another kit built this year after those two Corsairs, but here we are. I cracked open the Hasegawa 1/72 scale Glaug kit a little over a week ago, on Oct 3rd. Playing around with the first part of the build, it seemed very nicely engineered. The leg and feet were a crap ton of parts and the engineering was damn nice.

They engineered it so there were no long seams along the leg. The clear red pieces could be assembled after the whole leg was painted as well since it’s not glued together for seam fixes. Here’s a quick video of the leg engineering and mobility.

Having built the old Arii/Bandai 1/100 Glaug kit over 20 years ago, I’m pretty damn impressed. This was also roughly a week long build; so there are not too many progress pictures, but you get the idea. (more…)

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Read more about the article And then there were two

And then there were two

Look, two F4U Corsairs!

I was fairly close to finishing the 48th scale Corsair about mid September but never really got around to posting anything since I moved right into working on the 72nd scale kit; or rather, finishing what I started on the 72nd. I did drag my feet for about a week or so since I really did not want to take the time to work on the seams and redo details. But I ended up finishing both kits so here’s the final processes done for the 48th first.

Getting right into the work we got the decals for the kit. They are pretty thin and delicate and I ended up breaking a few, but nothing a little pushing and pulling won’t fix. And in some cases, some paint and weathering to hide things.

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Read more about the article It’s a plane! An F4U-1D Corsair to be more specific

It’s a plane! An F4U-1D Corsair to be more specific

Long time no post, but since I have this on my bench; why not. I started working on this two years ago after getting inspired at my local IPMS club’s annual contest with the intent that I’d get this done for the adjacent IPMS chapter’s following competition and this was 2 years ago in around Oct 2023. I actually started two Corsair kits, a 72nd birdcage and the 48th 1D with the intent that I could work on both at the same time. That was sorta true up until things just got simpler if I focused on one kit first. The last time I built an airplane kit was probably 35+ years ago when I was a wee lad. I’m pretty sure I built a Corsair back then too; I religiously watched Black Sheep Squadron on TV and loved the look of the wings. Over the years, I’ve collected a fair amount of Corsairs in different scales and from different makers – I just never actually did any work, until 2 years ago.

I’d lost the original pictures I took when I started this so I had to screen shot some posts I made 2 years ago from my Insta account. Apparently I completely built the two cockpits. (more…)

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