Sailor Venus! A gift for @ostewart13 for her big move to Boston!
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ARTIST: Crisalys
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I LOVE this design. I really hope that the artist will be selling prints of this. Females are such a huge part of this community. I could go into a huge rant about some of the fucked up shit I see from other builders towards females in this hobby. For now enjoy this art and support this awesome artist. Remember that many different people build. People from all different walks of life. People of different race. People of different gender. All kinds of different people. So treat everyone with respect, it’s the only way this hobby will grow.
And so begins this restoration and upgrade project.
This kuuga is from a line called Super Suits Action Figure, and (I assume) was an early attempt at a high end 12inch figure line that eventually led to us getting the Real Action Hero line. Since there are newer “better” versions from the RAH line, nobody really wants this figure and it goes pretty damn cheap in the right places, I only paid 400jpy plus postage for this. Being 17 years old though, he needs some work doing.
The undersuit is made of a thin nylon mesh, somewhat like a pair of tights, to give and stretch enough for posing but be thin enough for small wrinkles and to not make the suit look bulky. It’s then been textured with some kind of rubber/silicon/something coating to match the show appearance, and that’s an issue. Over 17 years it has somewhat.... decomposed. The mesh is fine but the rubber has come off and stained portions of the armour (and my fingers), and you can see the for some reason partly clear body underneath
I plan to paint the clear parts black and replace the bodysuit with a non-rubber material to prevent the problem happening once again, and clean the armour. Hopefully repainting the armour is not necessary
Speaking of the body, it’s weirdly proportioned
The chest, stomach and pelvis are very scrawny compared to the thighs and biceps, and leave the chest armour very floaty and the undersuit wrinkles into the gap which looks very weird. Going to fill it out with putty and possibly sculpt some muscle definition in, depending on if the replacement bodysuit will conform to it. I definitely need to do something to add shoulder articulation or have a different method of adding/removing the chest armour because that was incredibly difficult to remove (I think I broke the elbow doing so, but i’s repairable)
The feet are rather..... clown shoe-esque. they’re just super out of proportion to the body, and the anklets are far too high giging the illusion of stumpty shins. They’re also for some reason a hollow silicon shape with an articulated skeleton foot inside, but are far too big for the skeleton foot to really move. THe skele-foot also doesn’t touch the sole of the shoe, so sometimes balancing him is like using an inflated carrier bag to hold up a brick.
I’m genuinely not sure how to solve this. My current plan is cut off the anklets so they can sit lower, and sculpt the shoe onto the skeleton foot, while working out how to add a very needed ankle tilt
Godai’s face is actually a fairly decent likeness to Odagiri Joe, although a little gaunt and narrow in the cheeks. It is an entirely hollow head of thin flexible plastic, so it may well be that mine is a litle squished as there’s no internal support structure. The unpainted skin hurts it a lot though, in my pictures it’s not so bad cos the shadows help show off the sculpt but in normal lighting it’s just one solid colour
So the human head needs some internal structure to help keep it’s shape and not wobble on the neck post, because it has no proper locking like the helmet head, and bending out so it’s not as narrow. And then lots of repainting. I’m also very tempted to remove the hair and replace it with some dolls hair? I’ve no idea how possible this is for me though so might not happen. It also sits very high, much higher than the helmet head, so I need to find a way to may it less giraffe-necked.
The helmeted head has a problem common with early kuuga, in that the mouth/jawpiece couldn’t realistically fit an actors jaw/chin inside, it curves toward the neck too much. (the problem may also be the positioning of the connector inside the helmet being too far forward)
so I want to adjust the mouthpiece shape and move the connector back, plus remove the seamline from the side of the helmet.
A rather long list of things to do I think, thankfully I don’t need to replace the electronics for the light up belt and eyes, would love to make them brighter without lights though.
Work in progress on a Deagostini 1/144 elevator car, full body repaint, highlighting and panel lining, seam removal and filling.
I want to highlight the platform edges and order some weathering powders, maybe do some paint chipping up there too and then I can call it done and move onto the rest of the set
This is Cool! But obviously is P-Bandai… FW GUNDAM CONVERGE EX19 DEVIL GUNDAM Final Form: Full Official Images, Info Release
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