Racing Queen Belldandy
E2046 - 1/10 Resin

This model of Belldandy has attracted me from the first time I see her at E2046 site and I purchased her. The figure is a very good recast of a prepainted figure sold in Japan, and the E2046 team made a good work disassembling it and recasting. Few parts, 11 in total, very little points to polish, the biggest work is to pin parts and paint them. I didn't want to make the figure stand alone so I put near her an ARII model of Honda Monkey in 1/12 scale, I know that they aren't the same scale but in the manga you see always strange and deformed vehicles so I thinked this would be perfect for this work. I modifyed a little the bike making new parts or customizing original ones. As first I put some rivets by Wave on the saddle as the original bike, the coil part of rear suspensions has been cut and replaced (look photo) with copper tubing and copper wire for the coil itself. I also recasted the head of motor so I could paint it better (the original one was crome plated) and I reconstructed the carburettor because I lost original one and was also bad. The rear carrier has been modified because I didn't want the direction lamps and the full carrier structure. I then added some tubing and the spark plug not present before, also the light glasses where recasted in clear resin to look more real placing some alluminum foil inside the headlamp, for last I scratchbuilt the silencer with plasticard tubing. I also constructed the under side of the fuel tank to look more real.

Rear Suspension reconstructed with brass tubing.	Main part of motorcycle partially upgraded. Fuel tank completed	Recast parts.	Recast of glass of headlamp and alluminum foil in inside of lamp.

Rear Suspension Painted.	Motor details:The carburettor and the spark plug.	Overall right side view. The silencer scrathbuilt.

The more interesting work for me was the pinting stage. I tried to make the skin tone with with the help of some advices from roberto (other Guest in this site), so I started using some part of Liquitex Titanium White with a little drop of Phebeo Yellow and a point of Phebeo Magenta or Vermillion airbrushed. I obtained so a very beautifull skin tone, and I made it more dark only adding more Magenta or Vermilion. For the eyes I used the Vallejo colors to have a good blu shading with a good brush. The hairs have been painted also with Vallejo and I made a wash of brown by citadel, drybrushed a little with vermin fur and snakebite leather by citadell and for last I gived a semi clear varnish by Gunze Sangyo. At this time I made the t-shirt with Liquitex Titanium White added of a drop of Phebeo green, adding more I made also shading. The racing suit was made starting with Cream Yellow Gunze Sangyo with some white to light it, to make it lived I made also some small points with pure Liquitex Titanium White. The lines and the green letters were made with Vallejo colors and a brush as the shoes with Vallejo red and Lifecolor light and medium Gray. I also airbrushed some semiclear varnish from gunze to protect the Liquitex color (water color) and to make it no so flat. For the helmet I used the same Yellow with the insigna airbrushed with green Tamiya and a FRISKET masking. The diorama base is only a piece of sand paper number 400 sprayed with gray base and washed with some black oil color, for last I made a mask with the insigna and airbrushed with flat white Tamiya. All the Resin parts of the figure have been pinned with brass tubing. I enjoyed making her and I'm pleased of the final result.

The rear side of the helmet with the sign of Belldandy	Overall Left side view.	The Helmet with the emblem on the top made with masking tape	Portrait of Belldandy

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