Project: Galaxy (Part 2)

Never underestimate how crushing it is to have to do the same monotonous tasks over and over again…
But at least there has been some progress with Sheryl since the last post. Her main parts are closely edging towards being ready to be painted, but there’s still a while to go yet.

Here’s how she looks at present, posing alongside my latest aquisition, Figma Aegis. Took me ages to get her as I had yet another run-in with the postal service in my area and their *ahem* lack of ability. But that’s another story (I’m racking up quite a few with this lot).
Aegis seems somewhat less impressive than what I had thought she would be. Heck, the dimension diver kit which I have been looking at for some time and Danny Choo was showing off a little while ago looks much better, but I don’t have the funds to go for one of those. Man, that was the first time I was actually envious of one of his freebies!!

But back to Sheryl. All I can say is that she’s a real piece of work… I don’t think I’ve had to spend this much time on a cleanup for a kit before. Going through a constant cycle of sand -> fill gaps -> sand -> prime is really starting to take it’s toll, esp since I can only find the time to prime the kit at the weekends, when I actually have sunlight to work with!!

Still got a little more cleaning to do on the main body. The hair especially needs some attention.

Most of the bits are actually from the putty I added to hide the gap between 2 bits of hair so they should be easy to smooth out. I just needed to prime it first to see the extent of the problem.

I’ve also managed to fill most of the pinholes which littered the various parts. Seriously, I don’t think I have ever done a kit with this many pinholes before!!

You can see some of the holes in the pic above. But those were just for the ones on the body part. The other parts had their own holes to worry with. In fact, I still haven’t finished doing up the ones I found on the back of the skirt!
Ah yes, the skirt with the massive gap. You may remember that I posted a pic showing the scale of the problem…

I had hoped to fill the gap with my standard milliput, which I use for most parts gaps, but for something this size, it simply was not up to the task.

So I had to break out the sculpey clay!

Took a while to get it in all the right areas. But luckily, since it’s resin I’m working with, there were no problems with bunging the whole thing into the oven to bake the clay hard to leave a solid fill for the gap.

And that’s where I’m up to at the moment. Still need to sand down the excess and make it smooth but the gap is definitely gone. At this point, I think I’ll treat the skirt as a separate part for now. Otherwise I’ll be prepping the parts for ages. The main body is almost ready for painting and that’s where the fun begins.

Sheryl really is testing all sorts of my abilities at the moment but I’m still going to soldier on and get her finished. And at least, it seems that she’s even giving her creator a bit of a hard time as well!
But for now, things are slowing down a little for Sheryl and I took on a little side project. Over at tomopop, a figure site and community which I check out (it’s part of the same group as Destructoid), They’re doing a little monthly figure photo feature where they give a theme and post pics from the community which they like and follows said theme.
The current theme is “the Holidays” so there have been a few Christmas themed pics around the sites community posts. But reading it got ideas rolling and  I have started on a custom Hoihoi-san which I hope to complete before the holidays, which doesn’t leave me with that much time. Luckily, I’ve already build the basic kit so It’s “just” the modding to do now.

I’ll do a complete post when she’s done, but I will say that the kit was incredibly easy. I managed to snap Hoihoi together in just over an hour! That’s damn fast!!

As for what I have planned for her, If you have a copy of the english translated manga, I’ll simply say page 11.