Garage Kit Questions.
I was desperate to get this Chun Li figure but it's really old and now can only be found as a garage kit, the thing is I know nothing about these so I asked a friend who works with pottery and she told me very confident that she will paint it and it will look exactly like the picture so I decided to just go for it but again I know nothing about this so I was wondering what do you need besides the kit and painting materials (I'm guessing glue), I went on the tools section where I ordered it and saw all sort of things alluminium rivets, pins, air brushes and I don't even know what's all that for so my question is will I be ok if just order the kit, the painting materials and glue?
I also spoted a few terms seam lines, oversanding, pinning, drilling......... not quite sure of what that means but started to step away of the simple idea "painting and putting together" by the way is in that order paint then put together right? is this simple idea too naive?
Here is a website of an avid GK builder. This page details how he put together Velvet from the video game Odin Sphere. Read the descriptions and it will give you an idea of what you or your friend may go through to do a good job on your kit.
http://gamerabaenre.com/velvet_prog.htm
building a garage kit is not easy, and if person is not experienced in it, first product definitely will not look good.
assembling a garage kit needs so many items: Airbrush, acrylic paints , pins, various sandpapers, coating mask, putty, brushes, thinner and etc.
I suggest you to ask Annya to build that kit for you. She is amazing artist and charges reasonable amount.
here is her page: http://annyasworkshop.blogspot.com/
Thx for the link. I have a GK myself that needs painting and been looking around for builders. My kit is of Mitsuki from Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien.
Ragnablade has a good point, I mean I won't learn anything I kinda want to see what my friend can do but I'll read a bit more about it to make a desicion, still I'll ask Annya, has she build anything for you? and how would it be should I have e2046 to send the kit straight to her? e2046 it's kinda troublesome and even ask for bills or receipts to prove your adress. Thanks for the tip.
I can say that She's one of the best builders at E2046 forums.
She may have that kit at home, drop her a mail.
here are her works:
http://s254.photobucket.com/home/zasranka1/allalbums
Maybe I could ask her to buy it from them and paid her for the whole thing, I'll at least ask thanks again!
The easiest way to do it is to just pay professional to do it. You can go to HobbyFan.com and contact them for quotes. Or hopefully someone on this site knows. I think a user named Yetiart posts his kits on here. Paying someone to do it saves time and headaches if you can pay, But then you won't learn anything yourself. If you are worried of ruining your Chun Li, you can try buying a cheap kit and working on that for practice.
The kit isn't that expensive and I kinda want to try and see how it goes, the link you provided is a good guide too see what I'm getting into thanks!
Ragnablade's post is very detailed
Hmm, btw, yetiart manga about modeling here
http://www.yetiart.com/list_items.html?id=84
This is NOT a guide, but just some tips of modeling, hope it may also help you
I'll take a look thanks!
this is where I got informed...
http://codyscoop.com/howto.shtml
*THIS*
I learned a lot from Codys website when I first started. I don't copy his techniques exactly but I got a lot of ideas from his tutorial.
Just gave a quick gance at it and indeed seems a great tutorial I think I'm starting to see the full picture that's what I needed thanks.
*glance* -_-
I got a lot to read now thanks everyone for the info and links.
Woah! A beautifl Chun-li and based on this gorgeous illustration
http://oreno.imouto.org/post/show/99819/chun_li-pantyhose-street_fighter-yasuda_akira
I can see why are you so desperate ^^, hope you can get her but I bet she will be expensive :P
It could be really cheap if me and my friend build it or really expensive if I ask Annya(the artist recommended upstairs) , which I'm contemplating now, dunno I'm putting too much thought into this :S
Thanks for your words Pedro!