Resin Kit Project: Day 2

Another minor fiasco occured last night that involved me getting suspended by wordpress for the second time in less than two weeks, just thought you folks would like to know XD

I had originally wanted to work on the next F/HA scene today, I’ve got it half done before last night. However, it turned out that the weather is really nice today, no wind, and not that hot. So, I decided to bring out Saber Lily again.

There’s a step placed conveniently outside of the door leading to my backyard, so I worked there most of the time.

Sanding and washing were done the previous day, so the next step is to drill holes in the parts to insert the rods.

Initially when I started I found out that I really had nothing around the house for this step: I’ve got no pin-vice and my power drills are either too strong or doesn’t work. However, since my wallet is pretty much empty after numerous purchases (latest being 30 ish CAD on paint, and I owe my friend 9 bucks), I really need cheap alternatives.

My Tools:

My “make shift” pin vice consists of a modelling knife shaft with a 1/16 ” drill bit jammed into the blade section. There’s not much to say really…It works pretty well, and I didn’t break the drill bit.

This wire cutter is not the same cutter I normally use. This one is normally for cutting wires whereas the other is originally intended to strip the plastic casings around the wire.

The third one is my old modelling knife. It’s still sharp enough to cut stuff but I mainly use it to work with putty.

Now, I found that paper clips are way too thin to work with. So I used butterfly clips. For larger, pre-drilled holes, I used thick soldering wire lying around the house.

This here is a cool picture of a small box of butterfly clips that I bought from the dollar store. These guys have a diameter of slightly less than 1/16 “, which fit the holes quite well. I also add some putty into the hole to anchor the wire. For larger holes that were drilled for me, I used soldering wires that just happened to be the same thickness as the diameter of the holes. I’ve only actually used it in one part (on one of Saber’s legs).

This is basically what it looks like. This part fits surprisingly well, and I’m glad of this because I wanted to make her cast-off able. And yes, that’s her pantsu (unpainted) that you’re looking at.

This step is surprisingly tedious, and took all afternoon. By the end, Saber Lily has a total of 15 pins in her. Are the pins actually supposed to make the parts fit snugly, even under gravity? Because other than the chest the other parts still won’t hold by themselves.

Almost all parts fit well enough that I don’t need to putty the joints. The only part with problems is the hair:

I currently can’t do anything about this. Where can I get vasoline?

The parts making up Saber Lily’s skirt are too thin to pin. There was nothing much I could do with them today. My kit didn’t come with an instruction sheet, so I actually spent a while figuring out which piecce goes where. Below are the parts that make up the skirt:

Aside from the skirt, the armor is made so that it’s possible to make her fully-cast offable. The makers didn’t cheap out on the clothing. The breast plate is a separate part and I want to make in detachable in the finished product:

I’m open to suggestions on how to make it possible. That’s all I did today, all the newspaper in the house were picked up by the garbage man this morning so I couldn’t prime the parts.

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