GK kit. Sinon Asada

Here is another kit from GK-M. Sinon Asada from Sword Art Online series.

The kit is a resin copy, and the original kit is from Kotobukiya. GK-M had it for a good price.

 The kit came out in this very simple white box with a sticker.

 The sticker had a picture, and GK-M's number with a QR code for what I assume is for their inventory purposes.

 The kit was well packaged and it had no broken parts.

 Even the small parts were intact.

 It came with a set of decals for the eyes. It is the water slide, however, it is not pre-cut so it needs to be cut in shape before applying. I would like to use the water slides since it would make the kit look better, but I want to paint the eyes so I am going to set it aside.

 The kit also had two papers. One was a parts list and another was several pictures of the finished kit. Thankfully unlike E2046'S kit, which only has one picture, this multiple pictures helped me out a lot when it comes to painting.

 First, I took all the parts out and using the parts list, I made sure I had all the parts.

 Unlike E2046 kits, the parts are not sanded, so the flesh marks are still there. I prefer this way since E2046 kits sand it too much and kills the details.

I sat the parts inside water and oxi clean for 24 hours to get rid off all the greases.

And dried them before i do anything.

Each part was sanded. Some parts were drilled and pinned and I used a heat gun to bend out some of the parts. Unfortunately, this is nature of the resin kit and even the best, high-quality kits will require this.

After finishing with each part, I pre-assembled the kit. This is an important phase because it will show you how the kit will be built and what it also shows the nature of the kit. For this kit, I found out that a lot of weight is placed on its right leg, so I need to pin it for extra support. I also found out that the completed jacket part needs to be lowered onto chest part with the rifle, instead of placing the rifle last.

The parts are primed with AK grey primer. I chose this primer because one it can be airbrushed on and two unlike the Vallejo primer that I use, i can sand this primer smoothly.

It's part to see in the picture above, however, there are some flesh marks left that I was not able to sand it properly. I simply sand it again and primed it again until I saw it smooth.

Now the eyes. I first applied some clear coat, and used a pencil to rough sketch it. I then used oil paint to paint the eyes lines and brows.

The oil paint allows me to paint this thin line by letting me use a brush with thinner. I first apply black oil paint. Then with a small brush loaded with thinner, I chased the line to get the desired shape. Above picture showed finished eyeliners.

It took two hours but it came out great.

I sealed the painted eyeliner with a coat of clear coat and finished the eye applying the same logic. It came out great but I can use more practice. I have seen pros paint the eyes and I want to reach the realism that they can do with the similar kit.

Here are all the parts painted. Well I forgot the hair parts because I  painted those separately and were in separate place to dry. I sealed all the kits with another clear coat and assembled the kit.

Because of its pose the assembly did not go well. Few parts were forced together during assembly. I prayed for the paints not to scratch and thankfully only damage was on the part above. It was a simple fix though.

I made another mistake. While I was holding the kit together to make sure the glue on the leg dries (which is important since all the weight of the kit in on it) The pistol broke and scratched right there on her bottom. This part is very detailed for a very good reason and this scratch made it ugly. Unfortunately this scratch was deep and I was unable to fix it.

Here is the kit assembled. Few things I noticed was that the kit was very shiny. It looks like the skin was wet.

And this damn part was annoying me. I tried to re-paint this part. The scratch was still there, but at least it doesn't look ugly when I was done.

I also flat coated the whole thing to make it look more real.

Here are the pictures of the finished product.

Yeah the hair came out bright, but I prefer it that way.

Look at that military standard shine on the boots.

I am really proud of how that eyes came out.

As expected of GK-M kit, this kit was easy to build with minimum fix. It took few days to finish however it was fun.