Almost blog + Bunny Toki Wip

Since we have a blog and some of you subscribe to it, let's write about the progress of our work. I've often published a summary of my work after it was completed, but I'm going to experiment and write a blog on an as-needed basis. In short, I'm going to increase the frequency of updates.

I've been posting my work progress on X for a long time, and I've been posting it on X because it's easy, but I'm planning to start a life where I basically don't look at social networking sites, so I thought, why not use a blog? The reason for texting is that I will be able to relive my thoughts as I work. It's also a way to organize my thoughts.

I think that most people nowadays don't read texts very much, or watch short videos or videos that skip over various processes and only show the results, and don't think much about what kind of work process or what kind of background information is involved.

In other words, I think we are in an age where it is easy to fall into a state of lack of imagination. So, I am not sure if there are people who are interested in this project or not, but I hope that people who want to see the process of my work can see it.

I am the type of person who is not bothered by writing at all, so I can write a lot of rambling articles at any time, but I think I usually update at night. I get up around 5:00 in the morning, start working immediately, and update before going to bed at night. I usually finish by 9:00 p.m., so I hope to have an hour before 10:00 p.m. to write. I would like to update when I have made some progress, which may not be every day.

I feel like I want to push myself to the limit now, so I'd like to work with my hands and output something if I have time.

Bunny Toki Wip

┃It seems that the quality of the kits varies a lot

Currently working on a bunny Toki for French Doll, which I recently received commissions.

As you can see, I even finished the dry fit. And I was just thinking...

I thought, “Isn't the condition of the parts better than the previous Toki? I thought, “This is a very nice surprise. This is a very nice surprise.

I wrote about it in detail in the article about the last time I assembled it, but I still have a vivid memory that it was an extremely time-consuming kit.

To give you an idea of how time-consuming it was, let me quote an image from a previous article...

https://www.patreon.com/posts/making-process-124393528

The hair was exasperatingly out of step. And the surface preparation time took an unimaginable level of time due to the distortion of the hollowed-out part and the accumulation of unwanted resin lumps.

Can you believe it? It took 50 hours just to surface the hair parts...

But how about this time? There were no surprisingly small deviations, and no distortions of the parts themselves. It was as if the previous kit was a lie, the parts were in excellent condition.

I guess it depends on the production system and the time of year, but such a difference makes the prediction of the work time go way off.

As I mentioned in my post on X, this is a bit of a challenge. This is the kind of bumps that I'm talking about, but it's a real relief that it was only this much.

https://x.com/sukimasangyo2/status/1929780025299223037

Even at the current stage of surface treatment, only about 17 hours have been used, so I estimate that it will take roughly 60 hours to complete the work from here.

The bangs were also very clean, and I had the impression that the seam lines and burrs had been changed to a position where they were not visible.

Apply Vaseline or some other substance that serves as a mold release agent to one side, apply Cyanon to the part on the other side, and then spray the Vaseline side with hardening spray first to align the parts. Then the gap will be filled and you can remove the parts and file off a little bit of the area with Cyanon to make it look good.

I was surprised that I was able to get to the tentative assembly stage without any difficulty, but other painters who undertake commissions told me that there may be some individual differences.

The appearance is the same as the last time, but the time spent on surface treatment is completely different... (to be continued)