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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...
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 for a particular occasion and a particular person, which gave me both speed and motivation. Otherwise, this kit would have sat around for a long, long time…as indeed she already had, while the garage kits I'm painting now have been stuck in that same sorry state for half a year.
Anyway. In November, I was suddenly seized by the urge to “just take something and paint it.” I chose the only Shinobu kit available at the time (it had to be Shinobu!): an E2046 recast of the Aniplex prepainted figure in a bathtub full of donuts. I have very few WIP photos, because while I was painting her, it never even occurred to me that I'd write a post about it :’)
I really dislike E2046 recasts of PVC figures—and their kits in general—because the quality is such a lottery, and this kit was no exception. The soft PVC parts of the prepainted original don't magically retain that flexibility when translated into recast resin 
—or perhaps I'm simply not skilled enough yet at coaxing all of it into shape.
First, we assemble everything. Looks decent enough!
The arm is separated from the body in a strange place, but that's fixable. In the end, it's one solid body, zero masking—just pick it up and paint!
So that's what we do.
While I'm at it, I paint the hair too.
Somewhere before that, the tub and palm trees were also painted. The tub isn't merely white; it also has a coat of sparkly Psychedelic Blue 
And the palm-tree color finally gave me a chance to test my new Lascivus Lime! Ohhhh, what a gorgeous color! 
The palm trees on the original are transparent, but we have what we have here, so I tried to imitate that effect.
Then came the duckies and a test of the circle masks I'd also acquired recently.
The hat, with enamel washes. The ribbon still ended up floating a little; I had déjà vu from a certain kit a year ago (
And the eyes! I save my favorite part for last so I can savor the kit coming to life :3
Alas, there are no process photos of painting the water and donuts. The water gave me no trouble, while the donuts were painted by hand one after another; some were “glazed” with gloss, and some weren't. The donuts—and then seating them in the tub together with Shinobu—were probably the hardest part of this kit 
What had fit during the initial test assembly no longer fit, there were enormous gaps, and all the other joys of garage-kit building :’)
And here she is, assembled and ready to travel to her owner!
My hands reached for the camera to take a couple of shots, and those turned into a couple dozen.) Shall we have a look?
And these are with the hat fitted properly to the shape of her head.
And that's how the kit turned out :3 This write-up is a little sparse in both process photos and description. In truth, I had more to say while the emotions were still fresh (shocking, ahaha)), but I hope you enjoyed it!
I hope everyone has a wonderful start to the year, and I'll see you again (soon)! 
