Drehksturm WIP 4

I have been busy working on the clean up of this kit, and as usual with resin kits, just when I think I have it all cleaned and am ready to move onto the next parts for final clean up....I find another blemish I missed. Oh well, it will be nice in the end to have a good smooth finish.  I figured first I would show you the rough unfinished legs and such...It is an impressive conversion kit for sure. While personally I think its a full original stealing from the already made frame parts of a zeta.

Here you can see my basing intentions and working on positioning for the kit.

I changed the kits weapon placements a little taking some inspiration from the Kampher kit.

Here is the rough completed kit. I have mods that need to be done. IE I lost the piece of PCV that goes in the waist skirt to connect the chest and the waist together so I have to remedy that mess up.

But I do like the aggressive look of the kit on this base.

And below you will see my work on cleaning up the front leg armor. Below I have epoxied the pieces together, but the gap is still quite large.

I filled the gap in with putty and gave it a good long dry time. On the right you can see the leg I have already finished.

Below you can see post sanding work on the seam line.

And here is the mod for connecting the chest to the waist and raising it up some.

The small white part on the chest is 2 pieces of pal-plate that is going to raise up the chest.

Here is the view from the back. 

I have already primed all the pieces you see here, but due to the cold weather the paint stays soft for a very long time. So I am leaving it alone to dry fully.

As always, thank you for stopping by. T.G.

Drehksturm WIP 3 I believe....

 Well now that I have finished playing Dishonored, a great game by the way. Especially if you love inducing chaos like I do.

On to Gundam business: I have been working on finishing the clean up on the chest, and waist parts. I thought for those of you that have never worked a resin kit, or a conversion kit as this kit is. I will show you how I pin a part. Glue is nice, but sometimes super glue is a pain to work with. Normal plastic cements will not work well if at all on most resin compounds. So using a rigid pin is a great trick. Thick guitar wire, or small brass rods work best.

First step is to mark and drill out the part so it will have a spot for the pin.

 Do the same on both parts. Use some sticky tack to line up more complex parts. Below you can see I have pinned the waist piece from my MG Kit.

 I like to use gel super glue, just a little bit right over the hole you just drilled out. Then line up the pin and insert. I highly suggest you check the fit prior to glueing so you know the pin you cut isn't too long or some of the other issues like bends in the pin don't hamper your efforts.

 Here you can see the pinned part. Now stronger than if I would have just glued it.

 This is the glue I use. I have both the gel and the liquid. I like this one because the container allows for a lot of control in dispensing the glue.

 Here is the pre-primed and plated waist. I will say white resin hides a lot of the imperfections.  Normally I am a one time primer kind of guy, but this build is requiring me to change that and prime often to ensure I have a smooth finish.

 I will say Helmosengine (R.C.) did a great job ensuring a tight fit on the conversion pieces so far.

 But as usual I cant ever leave well enough alone. I get the first full casting of this kit and what do I do...add plating, and lines to increase details, as if Helmosengine didn't have a ton of detailing in this kit .

 Some additions to the chest too.

 The front piece to the waist skirt. All freshly primed and looking smoother. I will have to break out the 1000+ grit sand paper to ensure that my work is as smooth as I need it.

Thats where I am at so far. This kit has been a test of patience and a challenge at times. I knew that going in. R.C. warned me about it, but I love the design of this kit. I look forward to getting more of this awesome kit done.
As always thanks for stopping by, T.G.

Thehelmosengine's Drehksturm WIP 1.

Welcome to a MUCH!!! anticipated build!

This has been over a year of waiting to get my hands on this thing. I am building #2 from Thehelmosengine (http://hangar03.blogspot.com)

A little about this model so far, it is a resin style kit. I have no other way to explain it. The material cleans up almost like plastic. After a little time working on it, I have found that plastic style glues sort of work though. Super glue is still my best bet to get adhesion especially when gluing posts. I will just stay safe in the end and use epoxy for final assembly. The clean up was pretty standard, Purple Power for a few days, then about a week in dish soap followed by a toothbrush and drying time.

As this is a conversion kit; I had to clean off an old build to get the old paint off of my Zeta 2.0 build. Purple power in a very highly concentrated form for this did the job.

Here is the high quality packaging! Everything separated, and bubble wrapped.

Post cleaning pre primer:

As is normal some of the fits on the resin to resin pieces have not been perfect, so a little pla-plate and the gap is filled.

Below: To get a smooth finish and not have to sand away a ton of the material, I used a thin piece of plastic to get a very smooth finished look. Worked like a charm I must say.

Here you can see some of the clean up work in progress. The resin material is really easy to sand down though.

I added a few pieces of plate for details...the lower pieces ended up being removed due to them getting in the way of other pieces fit.

I decided also that the pods on the sides of the head needed to sit a little higher in the front. So I pinned them in a position that holds them up a little bit, and putty'd in the gap.

And here are the pieces in question...Once I started fitting them I found that my added plates were in the way. Just goes to show why I normally fully build a kit before I start to add stuff....

Here are some post partial clean up primed pictures.

Not done by any means, but much better.

Don't mind the hole in the back its where the pin for the backpack goes.

And the head.

Thats where I am at for now. 

As always thank you for stopping by. T.G.

Upcoming kits, and WIP 4

I will start this post with a look into my future builds. The first one is something I have been waiting a long! time for. Thehelmosengine's Drehksturm! My kit is being poured as I type and I am beyond excited. As I said I have been waiting patiently for this kit to be completed. I only hope I can do justice to what will end up being the second Drehksturm ever built! The pictures below are from the first one completed by Decay. Needless to say I seriously doubt I will go with anything close to this paint scheme.

This is where I am in the prep. The kit uses the MG Zeta 2.0 frame as a base. So I am taking my old Zeta build and purple powering the old paint off so I can clean the pieces and prep them for the resin parts. 

The other kit in my future from Thehelmosengine is this guy... the Lanzegeist. The video will do way better giving you all the information if you are interested in joining me in building this awesome fully transformable resin kit.



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Now WIP 4:

In current works, I have been working hard on the MSA-0011 [BST] Gundam. I have all the pieces done with initial glueing and ready for scribing and priming.

 here you can see how I lined up the pal-plates so I could fill the gaps on the shoulder pieces. After they are glued in place and it has cured; I take an exacto knife and shape it then a little sanding it all is done. Gap covered.

 Here it is with the gap covered.

 My other challenge has been lining up the gun on the arm and having it fit under the body and shoulder. So I ended up taking a really long pin and using that, but it stuck out so I took multiple pieces of plate and used Proweld on them. After letting it dry overnight the proweld took what you see below and basically chemically melted it all together so it was as simple as shaping the plastic to the wrist was longer.

 Just a quick shot of my hotel priming office.....it is so humid here that 7 hours later the primer is still tacky, and I will now officially say I am not a fan of rustoleum primers for plastic and resin. They come out too thick for this work. I am going to end up spending hours cleaning up thick primer spots.

 The scribing was also started today. Nothing amazing or new, just a quick few shots.

 And more details were added for this apparatus lots of little tubing and plate to make it look better.

 Just some true WIP photos while I was bending the plastic tube.

 And the after photos.

 Much better, now it looks like something that belongs. I am not sure why, but it was supposed to have some connector that didn't connect to anything so I thought I would just make it better. In my opinion I did.

A busy update I know, but an important one.
As always thank you for stopping by. T.G.