poorcquality castings – Greatwall Studios Graphic Design

I took my second tentative stab at working 9n my resin project yesterday. I’m not sure how much I should count the first attempt from several years ago. I guess since I started to clip off the resin pour gates it should count for something, I suppose. Yesterday I put some time & effort into sanding, gluing, and assembly of the inner structure. After the few hours I put in to the feet, calves, and shin portions, I think this is going to take me several weeks to complete. And that may not even include priming, painting, and the final metal detail bits, nor the massive water slide decal sheets. But, I have started and made considerable progress! Yahoo!

The other thing I have come to realize is I must have bought a recasting, mainly because the box doesn’t have the hologram stickers on it, and the multi colour cast resin, is not the appropriate red, yellow, grey, and white as mentioned in the instructions, but 90% beige, and 10% grey. Plus the castings aren’t very crisp, and lots of the holes are plugged and need to be drilled out. But! He says, but… I’m only working through the internal structure right now, and I don’t intend to make the armor removable, so I think, with a high chance of certainty, that much of the blemishes and such will be covered up by the big chunky armor plates. Now if those suffer from the same quality issues, I might have a problem. But battle damage, and weathering could potentially cover that up if need be. I probably shouldn’t have been so worried about building it, as it has some quality issues that I can’t do much about, besides work around it all. Although truth be told, I am glad I did those two Macross Valkyrie VF-1’s recently, that has given me more confidence to tackle what looks to be a 16 inch tall model, possibly taller with antennas, and metal spiky bits. I’d love to use my USAF colour scheme on this item too. I really like the cool blue greys I used on my latest Macross Gerwalk model. I will need to source a high quality yellow paint, as the yellow ink doesn’t cut it. To Amazon then! Or I’ll find a very light brown that I can tint with the yellow ink. We’ll see what the budget is like after tax time.