Journal

Studio journal

Work stages, text notes, announcements, and links to Telegram/VK/TikTok posts.

article2024-02-13

Furude Rika: Garage Kit vs Prepainted

Hi everyone! I hope I haven't worn you all out with my posts yet, because once again I have something to show you And today it's another kit from last year that landed in my hands...

article2024-02-04

A Tale of Silver Wolf, the Silver-Sided Wolf!

Hi everyone! Today I'll tell you about last year's long-running project. I wanted to write about finishing it before New Year's... then I wanted to finish it during the holiday wee...

article2023-12-21

The Gorgeous Rui [Load Galax by Gouhondou]

Hi everyone! I finally felt ready for one more garage-kit post this year, though not a year-end roundup yet, because I'm planning to finish one more project before the end of the y...

article2023-11-23

The Gem Post

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I wrote anything, but now, at last, another little garage kit is finished and I'm ready to share several results at once under the umbrella of...

article2023-01-08

The Tale of the Two-Headed Garage Kit

Hi, everyone! I must have some kind of post-holiday blues. I couldn't make myself start writing this post, then couldn't finish it, and for the past couple of days I haven't really...

article2022-12-06

Garage Kit, White Model, Winter Fate/Grand Order

Hi everyone! With her owner Sgualo's permission, I'm writing a little post about creating an FGO goddess whom I was lucky enough to work on for Advent. By way of introduction, I'll...

article2022-11-10

Sweet Lollipop Kurosawa Ruby Ei-Ei-Oh! [GK]

Hi everyone! Today I'll tell you about a garage kit I finished all the way back last year but never got around to writing about. It's also one of those rare cases where I started w...

article2022-10-05

How to Turn a Pile of Trash into a Real Heroine—or Even Two! [GK]

Hi, everyone! I haven't written anything in ages, though I've kept steadily working on kits—between my last post about BiBi and this one, I painted a whole two (or three?) kits! I...

article2022-01-14

The Complete BiBi Lineup! [GK]

Hello, everyone! At last, I've gathered the energy to write a post about the garage kit that completed my trio of Love Live! girls sculpted by French Doll. The display they form is...

article2022-01-07

Bathing in Donuts—a Little Post About a Shinobu Garage Kit

Hello, everyone, and Happy New Year! I'm here with a little post about a garage kit I painted recently—and, by my standards, fairly quickly. Why quickly? Because I was painting her...

article2021-08-17

Honoka Carrying the Flag

Almost like Chaika carrying her coffin… Hello, everyone! Honoka was an impulse buy for me this year. Even more surprisingly, I started painting her as soon as she arrived (an unhea...

article2021-07-26

Phossy Phos

Hi, everyone! Today I'll tell you about an E2046 kit I decided to paint because I wanted to make something quickly. This was last winter. Although I finished her quite a while ago...

article2021-01-04

Luna—Human Form [GK ORI]

Hi, everyone! I wanted to make a year-in-review post, but time somehow slipped away in all the bustle, so instead this will simply be a post about one of the garage kits I painted...

article2020-11-19

A Garage Kit for the Lazy! [Figure-rise LABO Kotori Minami]

Hi, kitties! More Love Live! for the shelf! Today I'll tell you about a kit that left me completely cold when preorders opened. I bought it purely out of curiosity, as something fo...

article2020-11-11

Birds of Spring by Whoopiepie [GK]

Hi everyone! Today I’m sharing another not-so-recent (but at least it’s from this year!) project: the little birds Su-chan and Melo-chan by Whoopiepie_h. Incidentally, she recently...

article2020-10-06

Nico-Nico-Nii to Your Heart! ~☆ [GK Yazawa Nico Maid Cafe ver.]

Hi, everyone! I spent a very long time meaning to write this post (and a very long time painting this kit), but the story itself won’t be long. So, what do we have here? Love Live,...

article2019-12-09

Smart and Cute Elichika [GK by Cerberus Project]

Hi, everyone! I want to share the story of how I made my first Love Live girl, Eli. I ended up choosing this kit by chance, back before I became disillusioned with E2046 and still...

article2019-08-20

Let’s Make This Quick: Big Kitty

Hi, everyone! I seem to be posting awfully often lately—please forgive me. I’ll report on all my finished kits (only one left!) and then disappear into a six-month long build I hav...

article2019-08-12

A Little Song of Summer: Ulyana 2.0

Hi, everyone! Not long ago I had a kit with an unusual story, and I’d like to tell you a little about it. First, some backstory. On April 27 last year, a gentleman appeared in my D...

article2019-07-12

A Whale of a Tale About a Little Kit [GK Shinobu Oshino by Moineau]

Hi, everyone! Today I’ll tell you about a kit that came to me after Winter Wonder Festival 2018 thanks to G_rave’s efforts. At that event, I really wanted an original Yamashiro, wh...

article2019-02-18

Little Diamond

Hi, everyone! Painting together turned out to be great fun. This time, after we received our E2046 recasts of little Dia from Houseki no Kuni at almost the same time, Koshkinsk and...

article2019-01-07

Your Kitty — New Year

Merry Christmas, kittens! Let me tell you the story of my fastest paint job ever, hehe. At the end of November, I found myself staring at Chilmiru's new kitty on Twitter, and dear...

article2018-11-05

Your Kitty Goes Anime [Main Koon by Chilmiru]

Hello, kitties! I want to share the process and result of building Chilmiru's kitty with you. This kit is my first original, bought directly from the artist. It wasn't without comp...

article2018-08-22

Reviving the Old — Sakuya Izayoi by T's Systems [GK ver.]

Hi, everyone! I'd like to share not so much the result as the process of building one old kit. One fine day I got the urge to find out what original kits were actually like. For so...

article2018-05-17

Dangerous Cop — Goro Majima, Junsa ver. [GK]

Greetings to everyone who stopped by! If Twitter and the newly active Midoro haven't misled me, Tuesday was the birthday of Majima the Magnificent. That means it's time to stop dra...

article2018-02-27

If You Keep at It, Will Something... Finally... Work Out? Or, the Flamie Post~

Hello, kitties! I haven't written anything in quite a while, but only because there was nothing to write about: garage-kit building came to a halt because of the heroine of today's...

article2017-10-21

Utaha-senpai! [GK ver.]

Hello, everyone! Autumn somehow crept up without warning, bringing a pile of things to take care of and leaving less time for my favorite hobby... Nevertheless, I managed to finish...

article2017-09-27

Remilia Scarlet GK ver.

Good day to everyone who stopped by! I've sped up a little and managed to build and paint another kit over the past week (I didn't expect I could do it that quickly myself; if it w...

article2017-09-19

Hachikuji Mayoi GK Ver.

Hi, kitties! I want to share the latest result of my garage-kit adventures with you. It’s not as though the Little Snail was high on my immediate to-do list, but in theory I’d like...

article2017-06-12

Ulyana Post! (Everlasting Summer)

Hi, kitties! Today I’m going to tell you about my first attempt at customizing a garage kit. I had this idea of making all the girls from the Russian visual novel Everlasting Summe...

article2017-05-07

Unmoving Great Patchy – Antihero [Third GK]

Hi, kitties! I bring you another garage-kit post—this time about a recast of Griffon’s Patchouli. Why her in particular? I decided to get her for one purpose only: to practice work...

article2017-04-16

Remi and Flan Ver. 2.0

Good day, kitties! After assembling and painting Shinobu, I really wanted to redo my first GK: Remi and Flan, whom I wrote about a couple of posts ago. Even though I’d only painted...

article2017-02-15

Matsurika Shinouji – GK Custom by minami_desu

Hi, kitties! I can’t wait to share a look at the wonderful and completely unexpected birthday present minami_desu gave me Quite some time ago, during yet another Twitter challenge,...

article2017-01-19

Shinobu Oshino by Honey Sorority – My Second GK

Good day, kitties! It took me less than six months to get started on my second GK. Of course, I didn’t want to stop after my imperfect first attempt, but finances slowed things dow...

article2016-10-03

Remilia & Flandre Scarlet 1/10 [First GK]

Hello, Shelf! I had been thinking about assembling and painting a garage kit for a very long time, but I was afraid: I had no experience, and the work is rather delicate. While I w...