tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65090034428528546742024-03-18T15:47:51.049+08:00Art and Musings of a Miniature HobbyistArt of a miniature hobbyist; everything from painting miniature figurines and scale model kits to drawing in graphite and ink. On occasion, the art of macro photography will also be explored in this blog.FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.comBlogger685125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-65385735967400774512024-03-17T16:31:00.003+08:002024-03-17T16:31:59.294+08:00Emilia & Beatrice【Re:Zero - Story To Be Continued | Ichiban Kuji】Bishoujo Prize Figures Beatrice finally joins my Re:Zero-Starting Life From Another World figure collection. More importantly she is clad in her iconic pink Lolita outfit. Prize figures of Beatrice in her Lolita outfit are rare to almost non-existent. Emilia is the other pre-painted prize figure, and she is similarly clad in her own iconic outfit of purple and white from the anime series. While not as rare, FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-68570456487651484812024-02-20T11:40:00.000+08:002024-02-20T11:40:04.655+08:00Water Decal Tutorial | Straw Hat Pirates symbol on the flages of Going Merry ship【One Piece】 Veteran scale modelers or miniature painters tend to take the act of water decal application for granted. When I first started out as noob scale modeler, I remember being absolutely terrified of applying water decals for fear of damaging them as most model kits did not include spare decals in anticipation of some being damaged during the application process. One thing I wish I knew back FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-13510358207301884432024-01-31T12:12:00.001+08:002024-01-31T12:12:30.918+08:00A trio of Taito Artist Masterpiece Pre-Painted Prize Figures | Albedo, Kitigawa Marin, and Rem For collectors who want to display figures with high quality paint jobs, there were usually two main routes to achieving this goal. One was to purchase expensive scale painted figures while the other was to paint the miniature figurines themselves. Up to now, I had either taken the latter route or made do with prize figures with lower quality paint jobs. But in the past few years, anime FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-39726393368549156722024-01-21T13:43:00.000+08:002024-01-21T13:43:20.394+08:00OZ-00MS Tallgeese | Bandai 1/144 scale Real Grade【Completed: Custom-painted & detailed with third party water decals】Gundam Wing Endless Waltz With the hard part over and done with (i.e. the custom paint and sub-assembly processes), getting this 1/144 scale Real Grade Tallgeese project over the finishing line involved the simple task of putting the sub-assembly pieces together in a final assembly process. What you see below are photos of the fully-assembled Tallgeese complete with its custom paint job and water decal details.
FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-48829433130340279622024-01-12T09:56:00.000+08:002024-01-12T09:56:21.817+08:00OZ-00MS Tallgeese | Gundam Wing Endless Waltz【WIP: Custom-painted/decaled sub-assemblies】 Custom paint work for the Bandai 1/144 scale Real Grade OZ-00MS Tallgeese EW was completed faster than expected due to selected application of paint in this project. Only parts that looked toy-like and/or plasticky such the red, yellow, and gray parts were fully repainted. For the dark colored parts (e.g. the bluish gray), I was able to top-coated them with a matte clear coat to achieve a FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-79699347575948326122024-01-06T10:09:00.002+08:002024-01-06T10:09:34.735+08:00OZ-00MS Tallgeese | Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz【Part 1 of 2: Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review】 While I'm aware I had said there wasn't going to be anymore 'Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review' blog post uploads, yet here we are ... yet another such post, this time on the Bandai Real Grade plastic model kit of my all-time favourite mecha from the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Endless Waltz series i.e. the OZ-00MS Tallgeese. Well, technically I prefer a later variant called OZ-00MS Tallgeese FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-3234992567405911142023-12-30T13:19:00.003+08:002024-01-31T09:30:54.546+08:00Kaguya, Chika, and Ai【Kaguya-sama: Love is War】Furyu BiCute Bunnies Figures As someone who, at this age still watches romantic comedy animes and lots of them, Kaguya-sama: Love is War stands out as my favourite one so far. It's has a unique take on the genre in which the main protagonists are in love with each other but are hell bent to get the other to confess their love first. It results in hilarious over-the-top situations that had even the missus laughing out FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-34599427722756454552023-12-12T11:50:00.000+08:002023-12-12T11:50:13.778+08:00Psychic Sisters Tatsumaki & Fubuki | One Punch Man After putting together my first scale model kit in a long while, I'm now back to blogging about unboxing and review videos of my pre-painted figure collection. What we have today are the Psychic Sisters from the One Punch Man anime/manga series i.e. Fubuki (aka Blizzard of Hell) and Tatsumaki (aka Tornado of Terror) in their Banpresto Espresto Shapely pre-painted figure form.
Below FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-74773235379006328772023-12-05T10:17:00.000+08:002023-12-05T10:17:19.760+08:00Evangelion Unit-08a [Completed & Post-Assembly Review] - Bandai Real Grade Plastic Model Kit Another straight-out-of-the-box build of an EVA Unit is now complete, with the Bandai Real Grade 1/144 scale Evangelion Unit-08a finally fully-assembled with some additional work along the lines of the application of foil stickers, third party water decals, as well as selected top-coating, and panel-lining. Absolutely no re-painting was done on any of the parts seeing that the majority of FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-6258314312747458402023-11-26T10:55:00.000+08:002023-11-26T10:55:14.193+08:00Evangelion Unit-08a [Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review] - Bandai Real Grade Plastic Model Kit Due to time constraints arising from attempts to generate more content on my YouTube Channel FourEyedMonster Miniatures, this will be the last photo/text-based unboxing post I'll upload to my blog. Instead, any future 'Unboxing and Pre-Assembly' related content will be done via video only. Anyway, the following is a detailed and closeup look at the sprues and runners included in the Bandai FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-31828469645561691682023-11-12T16:07:00.002+08:002023-11-12T16:07:47.964+08:00Mecha Gals from the Gundam & Evangelion Universe In this iteration of my budget-friendly pre-painted figure unboxings and reviews, I'll be looking at characters from mecha-genre anime franchises. And in this instance, there are none bigger than the big two i.e. Mobile Suit Gundam and Neon Genesis Evangelion. While there will definitely be more bishoujo figures from this two universes being unboxed and reviewed, for starters I'll be FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-6993164405794520852023-10-25T07:49:00.000+08:002023-10-25T07:49:34.929+08:00Emilia and Ram Prize Figures from the Re:Zero Dreaming Future Story Ichiban Kuji Emilia and Ram are the first prize figures in my collection that come from an Ichiban Kuji, specifically one called Re:Zero Dreaming Future Story. And while technically both are won via winning tickets i.e. Prize B for Emilia and Prize C for Ram, I didn't get them by playing the Ichiban Kuji. Instead, I had gotten them pre-owned or second hand from online third party resellers.
FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-53962143339570617332023-10-02T14:40:00.000+08:002023-10-02T14:40:12.800+08:00Pre-Painted Figurines Begin Invasion Into My Collection There was a time when I would never have considered putting a pre-painted figurine up for display in my personal hobby collection. Misplaced pride and egotism meant I only displayed figurines I had painted myself. But with age comes the humility to accept that this self-imposed criteria is just that ... misplaced pride and egotism. With this in mind, I finally allowed myself the luxury of FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-7870042148512682722023-09-20T13:08:00.001+08:002023-09-20T13:09:26.800+08:00My First Ichiban Kuji Pull ..... a Failure? After finishing a rather time-consuming project (i.e a scale model kit of the Going Merry pirate ship), I have been guilty of taking it easy these past two weeks. Apart from checking out some budget-friendly pre-painted figurines to add to my collection, I didn't really do anything much on the hobby front. Usually I'll source both pre-owned as well as brand new pre-painted figurines from FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-27390056715149954112023-09-06T10:33:00.000+08:002023-09-06T10:33:58.531+08:00Going Merry (ゴーイングメリー号) | Custom-Painted Build of the One Piece Pirate Ship After 12 long years of procrastination and delay, the Going Merry pirate ship is finally complete. For the longest time, I was intimidated by the idea of starting a project involving this iconic ship from the One Piece anime. Then as the years went by - although I had started to acquired the skills needed to at least make an attempt at a project of this scale - the kit was effectively out FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-73429927740561402782023-08-25T08:57:00.001+08:002023-08-25T08:57:52.867+08:00Going Merry (ゴーイングメリー号) | One Piece - Putting Together the Painted, Panel-lined, and Water Decaled Parts/Sub-Assemblies Despite the gargantuan task facing me, all the parts and sub-assemblies of the Going Merry pirate ship is finally either fully-painted or at the very least panel-lined, and where required, the appropriate water decals have been applied. To make the painting process less daunting, I had broken up the task into smaller and more manageable bits comprising myriad of parts/sub-assemblies byFourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-91690085409849000532023-08-17T13:37:00.000+08:002023-08-17T13:37:15.120+08:00Going Merry (ゴーイングメリー号) | One Piece - Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review Going Merry holds an extremely special place in my hobby-life because it is the first scale model kit I had bought in my adult life, about 12 years ago. And yet it was a kit that I never had the confidence to tackle ... until now. Only after a fair amount of years since I first picked up a brush to paint miniatures did I find the self-confidence to attempt work on the iconic pirate ship FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-44688848855578103882023-08-11T11:41:00.000+08:002023-08-11T11:41:21.908+08:00Kamado Tanjiro | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) - Plastic Model Kit Figure Completed Finally photos of a fully-assembled Bandai Namco Kamado Tanjiro plastic model kit figure, which I had retouched to enhance color accuracy, have been successfully uploaded to my blog. I hope you will enjoy perusing through the photos below, and at the same time get a sense of whether you would like to have this model kit figure in your own anime figurine collection.
One of my key FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-21122813127863416092023-08-06T08:08:00.002+08:002023-08-06T08:08:53.754+08:00Kamado Tanjiro | Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃) - Retouching to Enhance Color Accuracy of Model Kit Figure As expected the retouch work needed for Tanjiro wasn't as extensive as that experienced for his sister Nezuko. Despite my adversity to sticker decals in general, there were some really good ones provided with this Tanjiro model kit figure. So much so that I didn't hesitate to use some of them, for example the earrings, the kanji on the back of the shirt, and the handle/hilt of the katana. FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-26458425607793752382023-08-02T10:32:00.002+08:002023-08-02T10:32:52.397+08:00Kamado Tanjiro | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) - Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review While the plastic figure of Kamado Tanjiro is actually Bandai Namco's first model kit from the Demon Slayers: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) anime series, he is the second kit from this line that I'll be working on. Before I start though, here is my customary unboxing and pre-assembly review of the model kit figure of Nezuko's younger brother and main protagonist, namely Tanjiro.
FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-50074829550608841832023-07-29T10:57:00.000+08:002023-07-29T10:57:19.835+08:00Kamado Nezuko | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) - Plastic Model Kit Figure Completed If you have been following my YouTube Channel - firstly thank you, followed by the inevitable shameless plug: please click here => FourEyedMonster Miniatures - then you would have already seen the completed Kamado Nezuko plastic model kit figure from Bandai Namco. Recently, my blog posts have started to lag a little bit behind my YouTube video uploads thus causing this to happen. FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-20947125234162785142023-07-26T10:39:00.002+08:002023-07-26T10:39:18.140+08:00Kamado Nezuko | Demon Slayer (鬼滅の刃) - Retouching to Enhance Color Accuracy of Model Kit Figure Model kit figures from Bandai tend to color accurate to an extent. But for someone who is familiar with the world of miniature painting, it's a matter of it being ... close but no cigar. To make matters worse, they offer only sticker decals to correct this color inaccuracy. Because such solutions are almost never to my liking, I always end up partly painting the model kit figure in questionFourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-9541178771283146242023-07-14T08:53:00.000+08:002023-07-14T08:53:49.492+08:00Kamado Nezuko | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (鬼滅の刃) - Unboxing & Pre-Assembly Review If you are into collecting anime character figurines, it's worth noting before I begin that Bandai has arguably much better product lines to consider. For example their Banpresto and FiguartsZERO line have figurines that come fully pre-painted, and require either minimal (for the former) or no assembly at all (for the latter). This particular one I'm unboxing - a plastic model kit figurine FourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-59409290313668196772023-07-06T14:07:00.000+08:002023-07-06T14:07:37.210+08:00HG 1/144 OZ-06MS Leo - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing [Custom Painted Build Completed; Photos + Video] Painted, panel-lined, and assembled. Slowly but surely I am moving more model kits from the 'box-gathering-dust-on-shelf' to the 'completed-for-display' category. While it great to have that complicated standout piece on display, I will always have a soft spot for the grunts. If possible, I intend to include a grunt mobile suit from any Gundam Universe that's represented on my display shelfFourEyedMonsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18161202517627920103noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6509003442852854674.post-86823776806664522292023-07-03T09:21:00.000+08:002023-07-03T09:21:04.576+08:00HG 144 OZ-06MS Leo - Mobile Suit Gundam Wing [WIP: A look at painted and panel-lined parts/sub-assemblies & Video of the assembly process] Before the final assembly process begins, I'll usually upload some closeup shots of the painted parts and sub-assemblies. It's no different for the Bandai High Grade (HG) 1/144 scale OZ-06MS Leo mass produced mobile suit from the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing anime series.
OZ-06MS Leo Work-in-Progress: Parts/sub-assemblies painted and panel-lined with lacquer and enamel paints respectively
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