HMM Gojulas WIP #4

Since the weather was actually mildly nice yesterday, I took the opportunity to go out and primer and base coat three runners of parts - K1 and both Q plates. Which was a good thing, because a pretty decent sized ice storm hit last night and now we have over an inch of solid ice... everywhere. Doesn't look like I'll be going out to paint again anytime in the next few days. I've already finished detailing and top coating these, all of the pieces to the "inner frame" of the head, but I'm only about half done with the other parts I have base coated. These parts were actually a lot of fun to paint, especially the one in the bottom right corner - I expected it to be a paint with how small some of the details are, but it turned out pretty nicely in my opinion and it was quite rewarding to see how good it looks after everything. Here's a couple close up pictures of these parts:

HMM Gojulas WIP #3

I actually got a decent amount of work done on the Gojulas yesterday and this morning, and I'm hoping to get even more done throughout the day today. These are all the pieces from the I plate, and next up is K1, all of the "inner frame" parts to the Gojulas' head.

HMM Gojulas WIP #2

I know, I know, I already broke my promise about the "daily update" thing.... looks like I was being a bit overly optimistic about myself then. Oh well though, I'll get these posted as often as I'm able too.

Work has been kind of sporadic over the past few days because of the super-low temperatures around here. I've gotten out to paint occasionally, but it just isn't the most fun activity in the world whenever it's only 4 degrees in your garage. I got my space heater out of storage though and that's helped marginally.

Anyway, here are the pieces (and close ups of them) that I've gotten completed since the last update. They're what remained of the S plates. Onto I!

 

HMM Shadow Fox Review

I posted a review of the HMM Shadow Fox yesterday on my youtube channel, so I figured I'd highlight a few things about the kit and post the video here as well. This is an unpainted kit that I snapped together, a first time experience for me and the HMM line, and I must say that I think it turned out spectacularly.

The kit has no detailing, panel lining, or any other kind of work done whatsoever, and it still looks fantsatic on my shelf. In particular, the gold on this kit is very impressive. The gold has no marbling to the plastic like the HMM Dark Horn Harry Special did, and looks nearly flawless. The other molded colors are nice as well, but the gold really is the winner in this category.

Articulation is very impressive as well, as each different segment of the kit has a wide range of movement and posability. In all honesty, I really can't come up with any criticisms to give this kit - its truly one of the best representations of what the HMM Zoids line is. I highly reccomend anyone interested in the line to pick one up.

For my full video review of the model, check out the video below: