Evangelion 05 mass production gallery and review

It took me alot longer than I thought it would take, (again) mainly because of work and lots of time sanding uneven parts. and painting the kit. first the shots without wings:

Even without wings this kit can look awesome (just not right out of the box)

Of the box this kit comes mainly in white, just a few parts in black, you'll have to paint most of of it and alot of  times wou'll ask: why does this part doesn't came molded in black, like the weapon, that huge thing comes in white... why bandai why????
The fins on the arms, the armpits, upper knee armour, cockpiece, and spinal armour are not usaly painted in gray, but I decided to paint them to break the white a little and give more colour variation to the model, whithout making it look too colourfull.

It looks good normal, but let's be honest, everyboy buys this kit because of the wings.

bellow you can see the extra head and the back parts that need to be removed.

 This kit is hard to pose, the arms don't bend and they cant do a 360° turn, they don't even make a 180°

The head is practicly fixed in one place, honestly I dont even know why there's a pollycap in there, it doesn't make any diuference

the wings are massive, I bended them to give the kit a more lively and menacing look

One big problem with this kit is that if you dont mod it a little it will look stiff, the wings are flat, the arms cant bend on the elbow, and they dont modve alot, and the everlasting problem that bandai has with the left hand (they only include two left hands one closed fist and one relaxed hand) 

 The fit is not as great as we are used to in bandai kits, but this is an old kit and that's to be expected

 

 You'll have to paint most of the black, I ended up painting the arms, the wings the black parts on the torso, the lips, the only part were I used the bandai suplied decals was on the neck.

Like I said before I bended the wings and also painted the grey on the back part, I think it turned out OK

Another bad thing about this kit is that there is no adapter to put it on the bandai action base, so if your'e planing on posing this thing on the air, youll have to look somewere else or do some moding to it

It's hard to say something good about a kit with so many flaws, but with alot of  love and time, it can look great, just be aware of the posability problems, stiff look, lack of colour etc

My overall coments are: pick this one up only if you REALLY like evangelion and you have extra time, this kit needs alot of time to make it look decent, and more to make it look great, so keep that in mind.

My rating could be lower, but, it ended looking great, and the kit invetes you to experiment on it, so that gives the kit a few extra points.

5/10

Removing seamlines from canopies

On my last build the VF-0S the canopy came with a nasty seamline, it took me months to decide which of the many techniques around the net to use, I opted for a mix of techniques and, as you can see on the gallery had great results, fist, here are the videos of the two techniques that I used:

Basically what I did was to remove the seamline with the back of an exacto knife, then sand with WET 400 grid sanding paper, after that the 1200 DRY sanding paper, and polish it with the toothpaste with a barely wet soft cloth, I highly recommend this, you'll be surprised how cheap and easy this is.

Hope you try it with some great results.

VF-0S (jet mode)

I finished this a few days ago, but I didn´t had the time to take some pics for the gallery until now, so here it is, what can I say, like most hasegawa kit's this looks simple but it can get very complicated, there are some fit problems as well but when you start to buld a hasegawa model you have to be aware that those are pretty common on the brand, but the model once finished looks awesome, the only "extyra problem I had was the seamline on the canopy, but that was very easyly removed woth the toothpaste technique.
so here it is the Hasegawa 1/72 VF-0S

 

 

 

 

 

this kit is awesome but it requires some extra love, some fit problems, seamlines and mold release marks, but with supreme detail, amazing decals this kit is a looker
I'll say it's a 8 out of 10

VF-11b Thunderbolt

It's finally here, my gallery/review for the 1/72 VF-11b thunderbolt by hasegawa:

Like allways with hasegawa kits the detail is excelent, but you'll have to take alot of extra time to paint and fix some details. 

As you can see clearly on the picture bellow a drop of superglue fell inside the canopy, and I didn´t knew this untill I removed the masking tape from the plastic, wich in my case is allways the last thing I do.

To be honest, for me this model lacks exitement, mainly because of the limited options you will have in personalizing it, I think it should include high visibility and low visibility waterslides, it only has half of the high visibility decals, for example, the "no step" it only comes in black, so by default you can´t paint this plane in a dark colour (like I was planning to do) 

Speaking of decals, I found alot of people complaining on the quiality of the ones included with this kit, mainly they complain about decals that don't bend even with alot of setting liquid, but I on the other hand think they are almost as good as the ones that come with the VF-19A, yes they require a little more setting solution, but the details are amazing and they are cut almost on the edge of the print, so youll have very little of "extra decal".

There are some pieces (like the biceps of the arms) that the manual tell's you to paint, but you won't see them at all. 

  

 Some clear parts dont fit, you'll need to do alot of sanding if yu want them to fit perfectly

Also, it feels like alot of unecesary extra parts are included, shure you see some of those but they come separated from a piece that could come in one piece.

I over didi it with the weathering... 

 
As you can see here, it is a small kit, it even feels like a 1/100 scale plane compared to almost every other 1/72 Valkire 

My overall thoughts are: this kit could be alot more simple, and more fun with the adition of a few decals, it feels tiny, this is by far teh worst hasegawa kit I have builded, but as allways with that brand, once you finish the kit you'll have a fine looking plane

6/10

VF-11b (work in progress)

I've done some advances on this kit, but it's taking too long to complete, mainly because of work and the fact that I need to re-suply some of my modeling materials, and to do that I need time, also, I wanted to do something diferent with the strpe pattern, but I never came up with any nice idea for this model, oh, by the way, lineart has been very helpfull when I do custom colour scheemes, so I'll try to post some as soon as I get my hands on the images, so here it is, my progress on two (maybe three?) months of work on the hasegawa 1/72 VF-11b

so far I dont have any complaint about this kit with the exeption of having too many "extra parts" small pieces that could be part of the biger piece where its assembled, this kit has lots of those.

when I ran out of cement I tried to but another bottle of it, but the store ran out, so I bought the tamiuyas extra thin cement, and I must say it works like a charm, but sometimes you will still want to use the normal cement on some parts.

I'm hoping my next post about this kit will be when it's completed, if work keeps