Ok, Let's back up a bit...

It's been a while since I've been posting, so here is some recent stuff:

This Bandai's Cosmo Zero from SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO 2199. Akira's Mount.

And now something completely different, a Hawk model San Francisco Trolley. Older than dirt, built OOB excepting figures, base and grinding out the openings in the wheels.

This is a 1/72 I-153. Yes, I will build ANYTHING.

So, now we are kinda caught up, I'll post more on the DMB-87 soon. Say good bye Sticky!

Oscar Goldman builds the DMB-87: PART 1

Hi, Oscar Goldman here. I fell in love with Space Battleship Yamato 2199. In particular the smaller Garmillas ships. Sadly, Bandai only made these in a really small “trinket” scale. To be fair, they only made two of the UNCN fighters, the Cosmo Zero and Hayabusa. I was able to lay my hands on a 1/48 scale resin kit of the DWG 262 Czvarke by J.Factory.

I am going to scratch build a "Snuka" from Space Battleship Yamato 2199. I hope you will find it to be as an exciting a build as I do.

The first step is to line up all the reference you can find.

This is a screen grab from episode 20 showing Snukas being launched off the Garmillas carrier Lambea. The DMB-87 is featured in this episode quite heavily in the first few minutes.

This a scan from the Space Battleship Yamato Special Art Book: Garmillas. There are 4 pages of images.

Above is a photocopy I made of the of the hand drawn orthographic projections. These make building the model so much easier than trying to reverse engineer it from screenshots. Beware! These seem definitive, but like all blueprints, they must be treated with suspicion.

This is the Garmillas reference book I am refering to.

There are many, many Japanese books about SBY 2199. It is fortunate that I know someone who may have them all. Above is a scan from one of the later volumes featuring "artwork". The lower picture lays out rear details to great advantage. It is dreadfully important to make sure you find all the reference you can before you start. Again, because you are dealing with entertainment, representations of objects change depending on their function in that part of the story. You will need to be creative and decide what version you will make.

Lastly, Bandai made this swell model as an add-on for one of the carrier kits. The scale is not given. Because of the small size a number of features have been simplified.

The top view orthographic is scanned and resized to 1:1 1/48th scale and printed out. The model will be about 18 inches long. At the top is the J.Factory 1/48 fuselage of the Czvarke as a size reference. Next time I start wrapping my head around all the models curves and start gluing up blocks of plastic.

Yes, They Have A Funny Name...

On modelers doorsteps now:

Thank you John and Chris!

TITLE DELEATED: Building Ingmar Spijkhoven's KrAZ 255B Part 2

So lets start get started.  It's a nice change of pace from INFORMATION DELETED. I have been corresponding with this models creator, none other than the infamous I. Spijkhoven. He has a blog at: http://ingmarspijkhoven.blogspot.nl/

I think he liked what I was doing (and the $25 I sent for the plans), but seemed a little nervous that some of you swine out there who visit my blog (yes, all two of you) are going to download the build up images and reverse engineer the model.  This of course takes a lot of herring off his families table.

Here you can see CONTENT DELETED. Normally I like to DELETED and CENSORED. It just goes to show that you can CENSORED, but you can't CENSORED YET AGAIN.

The online plans really DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. 

Sift through the SENSITIVE MATERIAL REMOVED and NOT FOR YOUR EYES, next SUPER DOUBLE TRIPLE X TOP SECRET.

Wharf? I thought you said TOO MUCH INFORMATION the dwarf!

So, if you are going to DON'T LOOK AT THE GIRL IN THE RED DRESS, I recommend TEMPORALLY OUT OF STOCK.

Here it is in its cubic glory. It is really a wonderful model, sure it THERE AIN'T NO SANITY CLAUSE, but once you have MASTERED YOUR DOMAIN, you will thank me.

Here is a shot from the WILL YOU COME BACK TO MY PLACE, BOUNCY, BOUNCY.

I leave you with a final GLIMMEND IJSJE, you can see the BEVROREN PARAPLU in action.

Many thanks to Ingmar Spijkoven for letting this amazing construction into the world and looking forward to the smoking email of J's and K's that will be rocketing my way the moment I hit publish. Publishing...now.  Cheers!

Complete Slacker: Building Ingmar Spijkhoven's KrAZ 255B

Somebody may be saying, "Hey, where is that guy who builds the models for fun?".  I'll tell you.  I've been working on the other end of my hobbies, namely gaming.  In other words, slacking off.  But here is something that jumped out a few weeks back that is almost like building a model:

I found this on the internet, I think I typed in "Crazy", but got directed to "KrAZ", which is a form of Russian Krazy.  I have a number of these in various scales and love this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPvHobX3D0    And this one...  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ium7Cxn3TN4

I bought the plans from MOC (My Own Creation) ((WARNING, do not start looking at Lego stuff)). We had bins of old Legos and I thought hmmmm....

So, here I am sorting through bins of old Legos...I found a lot of cool stuff like some petrified Cheerios and lots of long hair.  I sorted first by color.  I limited myself to the colors used in the model, Red, Dark Blue Gray, Light Gray and Black.  If you want to replicate this experience at home, but don't have several bins of old Legos laying about, simply do the following: 1) Take a 2,000 piece jigsaw puzzle and have several small deranged children hide half the pieces around your house.  2) Take the remaining pieces and throw them in the garbage.  3) Now go find the 1,000 puzzle peices scattered around your house. 4) Figure out which pieces are missing.  Document each one.  Contact the puzzle manufacturer for replacements. 5) Assemble.

I think this is a metaphor for something.  Guantanamo Bay?

Here's most everything sorted.  It's an insidious hobby, playing on our base compulsion to organize crap into neat piles.

The next bit of business is to order all the parts I don't have.  Each must be selected individually by shape and color.  Why on god's green earth do they make Dark Blueish Gray and Black indistinguishable?  This took about 3 hours.  OK, 4.  It is an exercise in extreme tedium, there are 8,000+ elements in 53 colors. After a while they ALL LOOK THE SAME.

While patently waiting for my parts to come in (most are from Denmark), I dug out an old kit and decided to do a practice run.  In case I forgot how to snap bricks together.  Turns out it was easier than remembering my cell number.

Took about an hour.

On Friday everything but one part (from Lego!) showed up.

First thing is to make sure I got what I ordered.  So I rechecked everything off the list.  I got 4 parts in the wrong color (dark blue, my mistake) and forgot 4 parts.  It's a rare piece, but miraculously was able to find four of all the same (but wrong color) in the bins.  Oh my god, I have lost my mind.

Here it all is.  I am sure that some day this picture will resurface when I am trying to deny one of my many highly honed character flaws.

Can't wait to build this thing.  Part two....We build.  Cheers!

Royal Foogleeian Mobile Armored Throne

I built this for my FRPG Crypts-N-Creepies on my other "cooler" blog:
http://crypts-n-creepies.blogspot.com/

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Nothing Mediocre!

Massive Voodoo is posting the Mad Max entries.  GO!

http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.de/
Here is a sampling...

What a great mass of models!