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Some things came up this weekend, so I wasn’t able to make as much progress as I would have liked. I did get a chance to clean up that plate on the torso and reshape the skirts. Things are mostly symmetrical now but I think it may have come at the cost of trimming the front skirts far too short. At this point I’m leaning heavily toward scrapping them and starting over.
I’ve started the second step of the build now and the above is a good 90% of the mods that I’ll be doing. There is still some puttying, sanding and scribing that needs to be done but you can tell from this picute what the final shape of these pieces will be.The only thing that may change drastically are the front skirts. The shape on them isn’t really accurate to the line art I’m using and cut as they are, it is very difficult to make them perfectly symmetrical. If cleaning them up proves to be too much work, I may just scrap them and start from scratch with styrene sheet.
The out of box build for GoodGuyDan’s contest is over and now I can continue one with the rest of this build. I’m pretty happy with the results. Unfortunately my lights blew out while taking the photos, so their quality isn’t as has as I’d like. But still, enjoy!
Well, the out of box build is pretty much done. Just needs panel lines and decals, then I can take pictures and move on to part 2. Here’s how it looks so far.
The major painting is officially done. Tomorrow is going to be a day of small details and touch-up and then the kit gets some rest until Friday, when the coat/line/decal starts.
I’m feeling much more confident about making the deadline than I did on Sunday. The only major painting left is another color on the head and the sides of the knees. (You can see in this pic that they are still unpainted. That should all be set tomorrow, and then I can finish up the touch-ups and let the paint dry a little bit before I clear coat on Friday. Saturday will be panel lining, decaling, and flat coating. It should be dry enough to handle on Sunday which will allow me to take the final pictures for this incarnation.
Once the pressure of the contest is off, I’ll be able to focus on the modifications to the second torso, waist skirts and booster and hopefully will have the entire dual build done the following week.
With only a week left in the contest, I’m really starting to crunch. A good portion of the parts are done and waiting for a clear coat and panel line, but I’m not out of the woods yet. The torso, shoulders and arms are still waiting on paint (they have to dry before I can add another color) and the head still needs to be started. I’ve also been stripping and repainting parts that had problems earlier, like the above leg. I still think I can finish in time but I may end up having to cut some corners as the week goes on. If things aren’t clear coated by Friday, I’ll probably have to submit pictures without lines and decals and just finish up this kit after.
There’s also quite a bit that needs to be done for the other Hazel, but that’s all on the backburner until the contest is over.
That’s a half-truth. Talking about painting is boring; that’s why there haven’t been any updates as of late.
I kind of screwed up my timetable for the contest and realized that I have a week less than I had planned on. It’s kind of shifted my priorities away more toward paint but I don’t see any reason that things won’t be done in time. Anyway, here are some pictures to sate you for now.
Most of the more difficult masking on this project was done but as you can see it wasn’t a huge success. The bleed over is pretty easy to fix but the paint that peeled up is a whole other problem. I’m going to try some touch-up but I have a feeling these are going to have to be stripped/sanded and repainted. If it does come to that, I’m definitely rethinking my masking strategy.
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