Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Jingwei

Heya, this is my third Celestial Genesis mini. I’ve been documenting my paintjobs with On Table Top projects. I previously completed Twilight and Uzeon. It’s been awhile, but part of that is because I completed the entire thing this time before starting this project! My Uzeon project had large stretches with no updates due to work, school, burnout and etc. This time all the work is already done so I should be able to put out two or three updates a week so people can follow along steadily.

Anyway, for the first entry, I’m actually going to do two updates. The first update, is about Celestial/Diemension games at Gencon ’19. The second is about assembling the mini. So without any further ado.

Assembly:

It’s a resin mini so naturally I started by washing off the mould release agent.

After that I settled on two fairly obvious sub assemblies, the body and the eyeball.

In addition to those two sub-assemblies. There’s also the matter of the tubes. Despite being listed as a single part on the box, they’re actually 6 different non-structural pieces that go between the body and the eyeball. I didn’t assemble them until after I had painted just about everything and had already attached the body to the eyeball.

It was a huge pain in the ass! After lots of trial and error I was able to put them into place using a pair of tweezers holding a glob of poster tack holding the tubes. I do think it was definitely the right decision to leave them off until that point though. I got them all going to more or less the right place, although if you really wanted to nail the placement you could consider leaving her arms off until you’ve attached the tubes. The tradeoff there is pretty questionable, though.

Another thing I want to mention, the parts list on the box is actually incorrect! The parts listed as 1, 2, and 3 are actually all one big part. I guess they changed things between printing the box and actually casting the minis. In addition, the little feathers that you can see on part 2 are right where a gate in the mold connects to the mini, and they actually sort of snapped in half on mine when I removed it from the sprue. I tried repairing it but failed and ended up just snipping off the feathers on parts 2 and 3 entirely. A bit disappointing but I don’t think it’s a negative impact on the end product. I guess it gives her a bit less connection with her mythological inspiration, which I believe is some sort of bird.

This update reads like a lot of gripes, but really it was mostly a smooth and easy assembly without much to really talk about(aside from the tubes!). It’s a very high quality mini as expected from something sculpted and cast by Big Child, but I might only recommend it to modelers who are pretty confident in their assembly skills, unlike Uzeon who is pretty chunky and would be hard to screw up or damage.

Anyway, my next update will be on the skin! This one was a bit short but remember it’s a twofer. If you’re at all interested in Celestial be sure to checkout the Gencon update below this one.