I picked up this kit earlier this week and am planning on just a rapid OOB build.
This afternoon I started the building process. I gotta say that the molding alone is quite impressive. In the sprue of black parts, Bandai managed to mold the eye lens part of the helmet as a clear green
Step 1 was assemble the helmet
Step 2 was assemble the torso
Step 3 was just putting them together…
All this was about 90 minutes work. My only gripe so far is that on the back side of the lower portion of the helmet is an assembly seam. More to follow soon…
Also finished assembly on the Bal’or figure from Dungeons and Lasers…still more paint to add- thinking I like the bone color on the spine and will continue it down the tail…
Finally finished up the flight deck landing lines and the catapults this morning. Tell me what you think, folks. Not too bad considering the white/yellow lines were done with paint markers. I was very worried they wouldn’t work very well and/or cause other problems for me.
If you scroll up in this thread, I made a post about June 15 or 17 that shows how I did the lines.
Otherwise, here’s 2 sample pics below that show that I did mask in order to create the lines.
I was away from civilization and my workbench. Now I’m back to civilization but it’s taking forever to catch up on all the things I need to do before I’m able to sit down at my workbench.
Might be several more months before it’s done. I’d like to finish the carrier this year. But carriers are so darn big with so much to build and paint, etc. I’ve been at it on and off for two years now. Can’t help but wonder if there’ll be a third year.
