Tanya Degurechaff garage kit
This is a bootleg version. I simply could not locate the authentic version.
In fact, I wasn’t aware that this kit was in existence until I came across this bootleg version for sale on Yahoo auction Japan. I immediately knew it was a bootleg and also knew that it was from GK Taiwan due to how they were labelling parts.
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The kit was purchased at 3,300yen. With shipping and customs, it overall ended up costing roughly 80 CAD. It didn’t cross the three digit range which I consider a miracle when ordering things from Japan.
Anyway, the resin quality was decent. I spotted no fault whatsoever. Granted, it may perhaps be because it is pretty small. This is classified as non-scale, but I figure it’s about 1/16 scale.
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I chose not to airbrush anything for this one. I was pretty sure the outcome would be better if I used it, but the cleaning up and etc – It’s sometimes too much work especially when you are short on time, which I was at the time of making this. I just wanted to get this one ASAP.
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I painted the base with mod podge and then sprayed soil substrate. This is a technique I learned while making diorama. It creates a decent-looking rough ground. You don’t need to wait long for the glue to settle down, either. An hour max.
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And then I used diorama patch glasses which has silicon glue on bottom to create pseudo ground. This method works only because I am doing this on a tiny scale.
Ta-da! Done. Below is a short video of the completed figure. It wasn’t varnished in the video but I plan to do so at one point. This figure was assembled and was painted relatively painlessly. I think it took overall two days. The actual amount of work hours put into this was about 5 hours. Since you need to wait for paint to dry before moving onto a next step, it does take a lot more time than you actually put in.
Now, if you want a full video where it shows how I assembled and worked on step by step, the video is below. It is about 25 minutes long.