Ghibli: Ponyo (Sosuke's Toy Boat)
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1 4 June 2020, 11:26
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This one was a bit of a lark. I bought the HMS Bounty kit for a Tintin project. But when I saw this little boat, I just knew what its destiny was - Sosuke's toy boat that magically grows.
4 June 2020, 23:20
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There's a bloke at the Fisherman's Wharf market in Port Adelaide South Australia that sells those little boats
5 June 2020, 05:45
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It seems I'll need to do some touch up painting on the blue top. Oh, well, I wasn't quite happy with it anyway... needed more sanding.
19 June 2020, 00:01
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It's funny Bugsy... it's one of the only times I'm TRYING to build a model that looks like a toy. The fact that the toy is magically enlarged in the animated film makes it a very forgiving subject actually... any building/painting errors can be chalked up to trying to capture the essence of "shoddy mass production".😉
19 June 2020, 22:57
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Basically all done, except for a bit of water for the base. I need a bit of white paint touch up here and there... stupid dirty paint fingers... grrr...
20 June 2020, 23:52
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I like how Greg's workbench is always bustling with activity - and there are always extremely cute and/or interesting things coming out of the production line! 👍 🙂
21 June 2020, 00:42
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Heh, Alex... who knows what'll happen next?! Everyone's gotta start somewhere, but I'm pretty sure Lode didn't get his start painting a toy boat in primary colours! I opened up the Bounty kit... just to "check it out" and see if it'll work for one of my Tintin projects (it'll work now... I bought it already!). But when I saw the little life boat, I just knew it had a separate destiny from the rest of the sprues... 🙂
As for the photo-bombing Bonanza... 😉 The Calculus Affair (Beechcraft Bonanza) | Album by strobez (1:72)
22 June 2020, 07:42
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And, we're done. I didn't really plan to add any lighting, but there were a couple of blue LEDs just kicking around, so here we are.
23 June 2020, 00:27