Bandai Gunship of the Valley of Wind

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David Thor
Nice result! Build this kit ages ago and really need to get another one. The model is lost, but atm i am using the stand for my rb-66 destroyer. 🙂

20 December 2017, 09:13

Greg Baker
Whooo... I've got this one in my stash as well and a plan for including it in my Miyazaki project. I'd love to see some WIP pics.

20 December 2017, 09:24

Philippe Bouq'
Great! I'd be interesting in seeing the WIP pics too...

20 December 2017, 15:44

Cortex
Thank you for the nice comments, it was a quick build and I totally forgot to capture the progress .. and I regret it!
I uploaded the only 2 WIP pics I got.

20 December 2017, 19:10

Philippe Bouq'
Thanks Cortex. You'll be punished for that! your penitence is to build such another ship, taking pics of the WIP at any step! 😉 You've... 3 days! tick-tock-tick-tock... LOL

20 December 2017, 20:03

Greg Baker
Did you paint the figures? They usually terrify me and I bury them under as many leftover sprues as possible... 😉

22 December 2017, 14:35

Thomas Bischoff
great job! Unfortunately they don't have it in my scale (1:48)

22 December 2017, 15:12

Cortex
@Philippe, 😄 best punishment ever, I have a T-34 on the bench right now and I will remember to take pics.

@Greg, lol no I didn't paint them because I have zero experience with figures and no suitable brush at the time. I though the figures were small and they won't look good at all.

@Thomas, thank you .. there are couple of model kits for the Gunship out there, too bad there is no larger scale.

22 December 2017, 18:43

Greg Baker
Thomas... you could always scratch build one in 1:144. I don't think it would be too hard for a talented guy like you.

22 December 2017, 23:34

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Amazing kit, had fun building it, parts are clean and fit really well.
I primed the model with Alclad Black Primer, then sprayed a layer of Alclad Gold Titanium.

Then coated it with hairspray as I had plan to chip it after painting the main color which as Vallejo Model Color 70915: Deep Yellow, but this plan didn't work because the paint was very thick, almost like paste.
No matter how I tried to thin down the paint it remained hard to spray, I used Vallejo Airbrush Thinner and Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver.

I ended up laying a lot of coats to even out the paintjob, and I decided not do any chipping to avoid damaging the model.

Gunship of the Valley of Wind

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