Building a 1/8th Vintage Volks Urd, Part 2

 

Before we go any further, let's talk about Oh! My Goddess. As mentioned before, "Urd" was gifted to me by a club member. I went online to figure out who this mysterious "Urd" was and also find images of the character to use as reference to paint. I had heard of the manga before, but now decided to read it. I was able to find it online though Hoopla. I could only check out ten volumes each month, at that rate it would take five months to read the whole thing. I appropriated my son's library card and was able to increase my limit to twenty volumes a month. I had to ration my reading and limit myself to reading one volume per day at most. I also started keeping an eye on various auction sites and was able to find eight of the regular kits and ten of the Chibi kits. About a month ago I decided I wanted all the manga in print form...you get the idea. Once I decide I am in, I am all in. BTW, the manga is excellent and unlike most manga, has a very good ending.
本題に入る前に、『ああっ女神さまっ』について少しお話ししましょう。以前触れたように、「ウルド」のフィギュアはサークルのメンバーから譲り受けたものです。私はネットで、この謎めいた「ウルド」が何者なのかを調べ、塗装の参考にするための画像も探してみました。以前からその漫画の存在は知っていましたが、これを機に読んでみることにしたのです。ネット上の「Hoopla（フープラ）」というサービスで作品を見つけることができました。ただ、月に10冊までしか借りられず、そのペースだと全巻読み終えるのに5ヶ月もかかってしまいます。そこで息子の図書カードを借りることで、月20冊まで借りられるようにしました。読むペースを調整し、1日に最大1冊までと自分に言い聞かせて読み進めました。また、様々なオークションサイトもこまめにチェックし、通常のキットを8個、「ちび」シリーズのキットを10個見つけることができました。1ヶ月ほど前には、漫画をすべて紙の単行本で揃えたいと思うようになり……お察しの通り、私は一度「これだ」と決めると、とことんのめり込んでしまう性格なのです。ちなみに、この漫画は本当に素晴らしく、多くの漫画とは違って、結末も非常に見事なものでした。

Building a 1/8th Vintage Volks Urd, Part 1

This original vintage Volks resin kit was gifted to me by a member of my club, who purchased it in Japan in the 90s. I had no idea who or what an "Urd" was. I knew Volks, I had some of their other "Orient Hero Series" kits and they were all very well done.
このオリジナルのヴィンテージなボークス製レジンキットは、90年代に日本で購入したというクラブのメンバーから譲り受けたものです。当時の私は、「ウルド」が何者なのか、あるいは何なのか全く知りませんでした。ボークスというメーカーのことは知っており、同社の「オリエントヒーローシリーズ」のキットをいくつか持っていましたが、それらはどれも非常に出来の良いものでした。

Building Zoukei-Mura's 1/32 Bf-109 G4: Part 4 FINALE!

Done at last! Here follows is the last part of assembling the 1/32 Zoukei-Mura Bf-109 G4.

Building Zoukei-Mura's 1/32 Bf-109 G4: Part 3

Here is the "skeleton" build up from the modeler's guide. Thus inspired, I decided I would also build a "skeleton" model. This served as invaluable reference.

Building Zoukei-Mura's 1/32 Bf-109 G4: Part 2

 

This aircraft is being built as a skeleton model. This means the main spar under the pilot's seat will be the only connection between the fuselage and wings. The builder of the skeleton model in the book mentioned that this makes the model a bit wobbly. I have decided to use either wood or brass as an additional support between the wings and main spar. This pic shows my initial thinking process on how to solve this.

Building Zoukei-Mura's 1/32 Bf-109 G4: Part 1

Most excellent box art! The kit comes with fuselage and wing
interior parts and I will be building it with much of the outer
skin removed to show all the interior details.

Pennsylvania Railroad MO Tower, LASERkit, HO Scale, Part 1

This is the second of two kits I had agreed to build a long time ago. So let's get started. It's from the same maker as the 50,000 gallon water tank, American Model Builders, which sadly went defunct earlier this year.

Nice presentation. I built the water tower first, because I thought it would be easier. Ha!