Armored Core 1/72 Project Magnus by Kotobukiya

This was my first Kotobukiya Model Kit, and it was a bittersweet experience

First of all Ill take the negative aside, my kit came incomplete, an E-8 piece was missing, I contacted the company I bought it from and they told me that they couldn't do anything since I already started to build this kit, as a result I started to slack of on the build, I was thinking whats the ´point of keep building this if the kit will be incomplete? so I didn't care as much for hiding seem lines or having a perfect paint job. But as I kept building the kit started to look awesome and I realize that that piece is barely visible as you can see on the pictures bellow:

The weapons could also use a little more love from the engineering team, mostly are two pieces snapped together and that's it, with a little more love and a few extra pieces those could look even more badass than the look 

This kit has almost no mobility, but that's O.K., this is a Mech, big giant robots are supposed to feel heavy, stiff and dangerous, so, I guess it's forgettable once you see it alll put together. 

The fit of this kit is tight, so tight that you'll need to push very hard the two pieces to get the all the way, this is a plus and a con, on the plus side you'll have a very tight looking assembly, on the con you wont be able to take the two pieces apart without at least, breaking the connectors.  

Another thing that could be a pro and a con is the plastic, this comes in a very shiny blue, I mean it´s really shiny, awesomely shiny, so as you can imagine is also very hard and very fragile, so stress marks are something you'll have to avoid everytime you push those tightly fitted pieces, also, gate marks are a given,  

Another type of plastic is mat finished, again it´s awesome how flat colored it is, no cons on that one, it's soft and i looks awesome.  

And the last type of runners are some metallic looking ones for the weapons. 

Also this would benefit of more waterslides, with a few warning and caution sighs this kit could look even more realistic.

And that´s about it for the cons, as you can see the rest was uphill for me with this kit 

The sample pics of this kit always show it stiff and to be honest not very good looking, the arms and legs have a very thin front profile, also they always show it with straight legs and straight shoulders, giving a very stiff and not very cool looking vibe to it, but i'm happy to report that this kit looks awesome, it really feels like a heavily armored and weaponized machine of destruction.  

before I started with the build I had already decided to do a very heavy drybrush on the weapons, to make them look overused.  

The detail on this kit is awesome! 

This is one kit that you can have an awesome looking kit doing a straight out of the box build, this is a kit that you'll paint because you want to, not because you need to.

With a little paint here and there you can kick it up a notch

The Model comes with two heads, the woody woodpecker head:  

And the samuraijester head: 

Neither of those are specially good looking but they get the job done 

I dont like the shiny stuff so I got rid of the factory clean look with a flat coat and some drybrush to make it look like it has been in a few battles 

For my final comments, if you are into armored core or if you like mechs go get this kit! 

don't look at those boring shots by kotobukiya, believe it will look killer and aggressive on your stand, if you can ad some warning and caution signs it will make it look better.
My overall score is an awesome 8.

Logicoma Beat

Just to celebrate that this guy is on his way.

And if you havn't watched Ghost in the shell Arise, just go and watch it, it's awesome!

SV-51 Gallery and Review

One of the best kits I have builded:

Finaly I finished the 1/72 SV-51 by Hasegawa. A huge and amazing kit, definetly an eye catcher, not only because of the size and missiles but the complexity and eye poping acents on the silhouette, a beautifull kit with very few problems that are to be expected from a hasegawa model.

 First Ill tell you the mistakes I made on this one, they were heartbraking and on the final stages, first, the silvering on the decals, I didnt gloss coated because i've never had this problem before, ive had some silvering on just a few decals, but in this kit almost all waterslides have silvering, honestly I dont know why I didn't had this poroblem before... 

I like teh colour scheme that I chose, I think a more complicated scheme will make ot look less agresive, but the german gray with flat black looks awesome and stealthy to me. 

Hasegawa packs this babys with the kit that makes it look even more agressive.

the red accent "lights" break the monotony of the gray, one minor thing is that at the front of the canoppy where the three accents are, hasegawa only gives you the central clear piece the ones on the sides have to be painted, I dont know why they did that. 

If you are carefull enough youll have very few problems gluing the pieces together, with very little sanding

Another minor thing is that the vector nozles can't be moved, they need to be glued in one of the two options abailable.

As you can see this one is a good chunk bigger than all the valkires. It makes the VF-27 look like a harmless kite.

Definelty this is a piece of beauty.

Great detail everywhere you look

For my finel thoughts this kit is amazing, definetly not easy, it has the perfect mixture of complicated, looks and fit, as always Hasegawa could work a little on hiding were the pieces are glued, but with a fit this great youll have little problem hiding those areas with a little sanding, they could have inluded the three red pieces at the front of the conopy, for some weird reason they didn't, thsi one has no moving piueces after it's finished but theese are minor complaits with a kit that puors awesomness, all the panel lines look sharp and amazing, youll encounter very few problems with the assembly, definetly a plastic mpodel that its worth of your time and money.
9/10

Lineart SV-51

Lineart for my current work in porogress thr SV-51

If you open this file on photoshop you should be able to see the layers, on the file bellow are some rough ideas I had for the kit.

SV-51 work in progress

This is my Work In progress for the Hasegawa SV-51

 this Kit is amazing so far, it doesn't feel overengeniered, despite that this is one of the most complicated kits I have builded from hasegawa

 Ther detail as you come to expect from a Hasegawa model is otstanding

Every part you put together feels right 

and even if thers alot of sanding involved it doesm't feel like a heavyu buid, so far on the contrary I have enjoyed every single finished piece 

Even the nosecone is interesting and fun to put together

so here is where im at on this build and so far, this has been one of the best kits I have put together, It's not an easy kit, but everytime you put together a pice with another, you'll see a great result.