1/20 Goblin (Mirage Ocean)

1/20 Goblin (Mirage Ocean)

Hi all, sorry for the lack of quality reviews from me. As promised, here's the Goblin 'transform' resin kit from Mirage Ocean. This is sold in WF.
This builds up to the Goblin Mak BD version. This kit is a not a full kit by itself, and requires the Nitto Jerry kit to complete it.
Its made of several parts, mainly the single-piece body, 2 rocket launchers, nose sensors, hatch, and other small parts.
The cockpit can be modeled opened or closed, and I believe its a cast of the SAFS cockpit.
Simple decals are provided. Multimedia includes a grill (feels like fabric) and a thick piece of wire for pinning the parts.
The resin itself is not the new type of light-weight resin, but it does not feel heavy as its hollowed out in the center.
Casting is fair, with a number of flash as can be seen in the pictures, and some lines are ever so slightly curved.
But I believe its not a major issue for modelers.
There are lots of information about this kit which I do not know, such as the date of release.
Please do help update this thread if you have further information.

I want to thank a kind forum member for generously providing this kit for review.

Details

Scale: 1/20
Type of material : grey resin
Number of parts: 9
Decals: yes
Instructions: yes
Overall quality: pretty ok
Overall accuracy: ?
Date of release: ?
Release price: 4000 yen I think
Current Running price in YAJ: 5000+ to 7500+ yen

Pictures
Box

Contents

Side view

Underside view

Funny Story

Mechanic girl: Needs a bit of work...But I like it!
Pilot girl: I want it working tomorrow 0800 hrs!
Admin girl: You need to fill up the requisition form and submit to me by 1700 hrs today before anything starts...
Added closeup pictures of the rocket launcher.
There is a disc-shape protrusion on one side of the launcher.
And of the other side is the round point where I think it gets attached to the Goblin's hull.

Kits sent out!

Woah today I sent out 6 boxes of kits big and small... Guys you should be getting your kits in 1 week's time... I will bill you guys later (I hate to do all those calculations!!)
Super tired after that... The weather's hot lately and the air seems bad, my nose is acting up and I am getting blocked nose whole day..


Enough ranting, I will post the Goblin conversion kit review and a full Gustav review on Sunday after church! Stay tuned guys!

Not much progress on my WIP ...

Busy!

Very busy at work!
Sorry for the inevitable delay in shipping the kits out...
Thanks to a PLAMO member who gave me some Woodland Scenics Snow Flake, I will use it on my Polar Bear very soon. Also Leafster my new-found Ma.K pal who just ordered 2 more Polar Bears for me. I am planning to do a Polar Bear carrying rockets, but not the two handed version. The other Polar Bear is for the Francesco Hard Boiled. Planning to do a PB HB version, similar to what Lin.K is doing, though mine will be OOB as a tribute to my friend Francesco.

Did a little bit of work on my Baby Falke, and Polar Bear, hopefully can post some pictures up tonight.

Coming right up, Goblin conversion review, Lunar Gans review, Part 3 of 3 SAFS MkIII WIP!

Need to balance my time between being a Ma.K pusher and a Ma.K addict ... lol
Francesco gave me the tag 'Ma.K Pusher' which I quite like... Kinda like the tagline Viper1972 gave me in PLAMO : 'Pss you want some Ma.K? I have some...'

oh ya, tonight gotta do housework (I am the 'floor' manager and also tons of un-ironed clothes) too, sharks...

Gustav Quick Review

Gustav Quick Review

Did this quick review as my fellow Ma.Ker asked what's the difference between the sf3d version and the Ma.K version. As you would have realized, there are few Strahl suits review on my blog cos I am not a fan of them (yet...)
Here I am just trying to point out the differences between the 3 versions out there for your next purchase consideration. The 3 versions are: SF#D, Ma.K and Ma.K Clear. Well before tonight, I thought the only difference was the decals, and I was wrong... Read on...

Ma.K version (top left), Ma.K Clear version (top right) and
SF3D version front

All 3 kits opened. The main differences are: the SF3D version has lead weights for the feet (see the 2 grey things beside canopy in the bottom of the picture?) AND the canopy of the SF3D version is much darker tinted than the 2 Ma.K versions! (thats new to me)

SF3D version (camo card is same with the Ma.K version). Note the lead weights at the bottom.

SF3D decals and the darker canopy

Ma.K decals and lighter canopy, I quite like the decals here. Notice the nice yellow pumpkin head (larger version of it in the Gan first release)

Ma.K Clear version with the lighter canopy, and different camo card which I think is the nicest amongst the three.

Ma.K Clear version decals, quite similar to the Ma.K version, with the yellow heart and black snake.
Hope this helps guys!

Baby Falke WIP 2

Baby Falke WIP 2

Spent an hour scratch building the 'mouth/intake' of the falke using the actual falke intake as a reference. The base is the Eggplane's nose piece, I use a kotobukiya round part for the center, cut up tiny pieces of plaplate (white) and pasted them to it, and superglued a brass 'thruster' I bought from m-workshop long time ago...


The white pieces are not very aligned even though I tried hard trying to do so...

On the suggestion of another forum member, I tried using an old ping pong ball to try out as the antigrav unit. Looks nice. I've yet to decide which option to take.


And here's my sketch plan of the Baby Falke...Must plan in advance a bit otherwise plan to fail...

Yawn... That's all for tonight! Suggestions, criticisms encouraged!
Will

Egg plane build - Baby Falke

Egg plane build - Baby Falke

Company outing to the museum on Friday, after that go to PS to watch Night at the Museum 2. On the way there I could not help myself and detoured to m-workshop to get 2 egg planes.

Found some round objects to make the anti-gravity devices.
And so it begins...


Let's hope I can finish this...

Shipment 14 pictures

Shipment 14 pictures
Just been to the customs, first time being there, the folks there are very nice, just showed them the invoices and they billed my the GST, big hassle for me to go down all the way via MRT and bus and then come back by cab though. Not much tax, its a couple of dollars more for the more expensive kits and around a dollar for the cheaper ones.
Ashley just woke up and I have to put back the packing material so that she can take them all out again. Think she will be good working for customs in the future.. lol

Here are the stuff:
kits on the left
kits in the center

kits on the right

All I wanted in this shipment is a rare kit. Gans, Lunar Gans...

And finally I complete the series with all the Neuspotter heads (Neuspotter, Krachenvogel, Land Gans, Lunar Gans, Oskar & Konigs Krote)

Detailed review of the Lunar Gans coming up...

First, to allocate the kits.... I am about swarmed with PMs and emails! :) Will