Gally aka Battle Angel Alita

[FichtenFoo]

Here's my only other anime figure kit. Once this one is done, Ezechiel will be happy. Don't fret E! I have some VERY COOL projects planned for this year!

Anyway, click the link below to see the kit and the junk-pile base I made for it.

http://fichtenfoo.com/02GiantRobots/02b-Gally.htm

Gally aka Battle Angel Alita

[Ezechiel]

That base looks seriously amazing!
The scene of the manga comes immediatly to mind, good job.

[FichtenFoo]

WHAAAAAH!? You mean you find this... interesting? :shock:  :o

Egads! Although technically she is mecha. :wink:

Yeah, the base should be a lot of fun... I used a whole tube of CA putting it together.

[bhop73]

Aw man, this is gonna be awesome!  Gally is one of my favorite 80's character designs.  If you haven't read the Manga, I highly recommend it.  Love that base.  It really is a nice appropriate setting considering she was sort of born in a junk pile.  I recognize a few of those parts.. heh.. the Tiger sprocket most notably.

[FichtenFoo]

Yeah... stuff like this is fun for some sort of a "Name That Junk" contest. Name not only the actual kit parts, but the kits I was going to use some of the other bits for. The big pipe in the BG for example was slated for use on 2 different builds. What's that rusted grate from? Etc... The tiger sprocket was given to me in a bag of leftovers from a fellow IPMS member for use on misc projects.

[Kiske]

Very nice base. Really shows what you can do with scraps. :keeps it in mind:

Looks good

[Kallen]

Very good project Fichten but ts truths first name is neither Gally which is the first name that Ido gave him, nor Allita its US first name. But Yoko.

[FichtenFoo]

No spoilers Kallen! I haven't read all the manga yet... actually just the first book and one later in the series.

I just primed Gally/Alita/Yoko/Beetle Killer and discovered that the chest is more riddled with pinholes than I had initially thought. I'll take some pics later when the primer is cured. My plan is to fill them with Mr Surfacer (jar) but if someone has a better idea, please let me know.

[bhop73]

No spoilers Kallen! I haven't read all the manga yet... actually just the first book and one later in the series.

I just primed Gally/Alita/Yoko/Beetle Killer and discovered that the chest is more riddled with pinholes than I had initially thought. I'll take some pics later when the primer is cured. My plan is to fill them with Mr Surfacer (jar) but if someone has a better idea, please let me know.

If the holes are small, then the Mr Surfacer might work ok.  Red bondo or polyester putty works pretty good.. spread it all over and sand when it's dry.  I've seen a japanese site with a guy filling bigger pinholes by gluing styrene rod into drilled out holes and sanding smooth, but can't seem to find it.

[riccardo]

Hi,
cute project, mr surfacer 500? I personally don't have other idea besided thinned Bondo (spot and glaze putty)  which i'm in love with since i discovered it. Mr Surfacer in my experience comes off very easily as I sand it (i'm rough on that I know)

ric

[Kallen]

Forgiveness, I thought that you knew it, I would start again liked…

[Irk]

Cool model. The base is fantastic! I love the concept and the clever way you 'recycled' some misc parts.
I've never used Mr. Surfacer but I too have had great results with the red bondo putty. If you've never used it, it comes in a tube (no mixing required) and is designed to fill pinhole bubbles that appear on the surface of normal Bondo putty. I think it is called glaze putty or spot putty or something like that. Pretty easy to use. It doesn't seem to dry quite as hard as Bondo putty - though after a coat of primer everything seems to be fine. You can pick it up in the automotive section at Wal-mart.

[FichtenFoo]

I've seen the red glazing putty and will go pick some up. I'll check the putty thread, but in case it's not there, what is it thinned with?

Thanks!

[fredpekker]

I got some of the Bondo Glazing/Spot Putty (that's right off the tube  :)  ) at Pep Boys for like $3 a tube. It says to clean tools with lacquer thinner, so I would imagine you would thin it with the same, but it's not terribly thick and it sands pretty easily. I hit it with a coat of PlasticWeld after it dried and it hardened a little more than normal.

[riccardo]

I've seen the red glazing putty and will go pick some up. I'll check the putty thread, but in case it's not there, what is it thinned with?

Thanks!

I thin it with Mr Color Thinner if I use it on plastic, acetone will work as well .

ric

[FichtenFoo]

I added some more progress of Gally. Alclad II is so much fun. I ended up filling the holes with thinned Tamiya putty since I had no bondo. I'll pick up bondo tomorrow for future use.

http://fichtenfoo.com/02GiantRobots/02b-Gally.htm

Gally aka Battle Angel Alita

[Major Blah]

Wow, the flesh is so sexy!!  

Haha, alcad looks great.  Very shiny without the particles, really looks like metal parts.  That's a lot of pin holes, so much work to clean it up eh?

[BM2]

Very nice metals ! BTW you can thin Glazing putty with rubbing alcohol too!- won't mess with most enamels after they are dried! :)

[Irk]

Dang!  :o That metal looks awesome! I am not familiar with alclad - so after seeing the effect you can acheive with it I got psyched! I searched past posts and found a lot of discussion (it's amazing how many of my questions were answered doing it this way   )

Now I just hope that the hobby shop around here carrys the stuff. The model is looking great.

BTW - I'm am not sure that you will need to thin the red putty much. (I actually have never had to thin it down) It already is a different consistency than the other bondo stuff. As long as you work it into the area (fingertip works well) it has a tendency to 'flow' enough to find even small pinhole bubbles. I would try it first unthinned and see what you think.

[mario87]

Can you tell how you painted this metal parts step by step? Im trying with Alclad II White Aluminium but it don't look so great :/  I first primed part with Mr. Surfacer 1000 and then airbrushed Alclad II(out of bottle), here are results:
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/6245/200702100006hv0.jpg well it look good here, but it thanks to camera flash
http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/8363/200702100017ul2.jpg
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/719/200702100008uu9.jpg
please don't mind scratches, it's my first kit(MG Strike IWSP btw) that I'm glueling/sanding/priming/painting, before it I only snapped them ;p

Maybe it looks dull because it's flat surface without much places to reflect light? Well probably, but it's not the only cause, mayby I should use gloss black as a base color?

Can you give us some close up picture of this metal parts? :)

And Hello :)  It's my first post on this forum.