The Duckpond

    1/48 Air frame Aestivalis from Martian successor Nadesico. This kit was released by Bandai in 1997. The sticker sheet for this kit includes a 1/48 scale version of one of those Gekiganger stickers Gai was going to put on his machine. That’s a really neat detail. I didn’t put one on mine, since I didn’t know a good place for it and also Gai never got to stick on his either :(  Comparing the painted model to the unpainted one

  I wasn’t a huge fan of the Zaku I initially. To me, it never really looked like a predecessor to the Zaku II, rather just a stripped down version of it. But the design eventually grew on me and I liked it enough to build a model of it. This isn’t actually a Zaku I model kit. It was built out of a HG Zaku II from the 08th ms team line. It was a simple conversion, since the Zaku I is just a Zaku II with some bits taken off. Mostly, I just had to fill in the holes left by the power cables and do some scratchbuilding. I built joint covers for the elbows and built a new armour part for the cockpit hatch. The machine gun was made by cutting up the old gun and rearranging the pieces to make the Zaku I machine gun. The spikes on the shield are the spikes that were cut off of the shoulder ball. I also made new shoulder and ankle joints for the model. The model was painted with a brush and then I added some decals and weathering. Comparing the unpainted model and the finished version New a...

  About five years ago I watched Space ghost coast to coast. Seeing the cheap animation in it and other adutswim shows made me think ”I could probably do that” So I opened Gimp and drew a little picture. I made some primitive 2D animations and kept practising. Stop motion animation has been my primary focus, so I haven’t really been practising drawing as much as I should. Still, I felt that I might be ready to try out a complete 2D animation. I was not ready. As you can see the result leaves a lot to be desired. But even so, I managed to complete it, that’s worth something, right? After making Imperial inspection in 2015 I said that I wouldn’t do anything with green screen again, and then years later I made the Ace combat animation and Gundam stop motions. I might be tired of 2D now but what about later? I guess we’ll see where my journey with 2D animation takes me. But It’s not taking me anywhere just yet. My next video will most likely be normal stop motion. After th...

I was kind of hesitant to try out Valkyria chronicles. I liked X-com and Valkyria chronicles was a similar strategy game, but I just didn't like the anime theming of the game. Even so, I eventually got around to playing it. And I'm glad I did. I ended up really liking the game, despite the anime theme. In some ways I even prefer it to X-com. Since I liked the game so much, I wanted to build something from it. I chose the main characters tank, the Edelweiss. The Edelweiss is not based on any real tank. It has design elements taken from real tanks mixed up in it's design, But it really doesnt resemble any tank that closely. That would mean, that I would have to scratch build a lot for this project. So far, this one has the most extensive scratch building of any of my projects. Aside from the turret, everything above the treads is scratch built. This was also my first time building a tank. Im more familiar with planes, so I didn't instantly know which kit would be a good b...

So, a few days ago my youtube channel hit 30 000 subscribers. I got a huge boost in views and subscribers a few months ago, when I released a stop motion video based on the hugely popular Among us videogame. Usually I only have time to make one video in a year, but now I think that I should start uploading more often. Something with less effort put into it, but uploaded more often. I'm not a huge fan of this idea, since I would prefer for my youtube channel to be a colletion of my best work, with no extra filler in between. But it would be a shame to waste the momentum I've gained from the Among us video by spending a year on another video. I've been thinking if I would upload these smaller videos on some other site as a test and then upload them to youutbe if the response is positive. I just recently started an instagram account. I haven't gotten a handle on how the site works yet, but it could be a good place to upload some smaller, lower effort content. At the moment...

  I'm a huge fan of the Area 88 ova from 1985. The high quality plane animation is nice to look at. And the tone and setpieces have inspired the Ace combat games I also like very much. Since I'm such a fan It's only natural that I would want to build a model based on the main characters plane. Well one of them atleast. In the ova there are 3 main planes The F-8, F-5 and this one. I chose the F-20 because I think that it has the best color scheme. The little bits of blue on the sides make it look better to my eyes. The base model is Hasegawas basic 1/72 F-20. They also made a special Area 88 version with the correct decals in the box, but that one is out of print and also more expensive. So I would build mine out of the basic version and print my own decals. I started working on this kit by printing the decals, the most important ones were the unicorns on the tail fin. I Looked up references from the internet and screenshots from the ova. I made the decals in inkscape and pr...