Gokufan's Celestial Genesis: Jingwei
Glamour shots and a lesson
So, the final entry. Thanks for reading my project, I had a lot of fun with it even if I procrastinated a bit on writing entries. I also learned an important lesson, which I’ll get to in a bit, but first photos of the completed mini!
Anyway, on to my harsh lesson! Notice how the whole assembly is about three times as tall as the base is wide? I knocked the damn thing over! Off a shelf! On to a hard wood floor! She broke into about 15 pieces, one of which I haven’t found. The rest are sitting in a box. This mini has actually been destroyed the entire time I’ve been writing this blog.
So here’s the lesson: make damn sure your base is heavy and wide enough for your mini, especially a “flying” minis like this. I’ve heard people talk about how “you need to use a flared base” before and I guess this must be what they meant. Sorry if I got your hopes up for something deep and philosophical, this is just practical.
I was honestly a little surprised how little breaking her bothered me, though (still a bummer of course). I pretty much accomplished everything I wanted to with the mini beforehand. I got plenty of pictures. I can reuse the base. I’ve got a lot of cool looking Jingwei pieces I might use as basing elements some day.
Anyway, that’s it! Thanks for reading my posts and looking at my pictures! I’m not sure when I’ll do another one of these but I definitely will because I love this range.
Such a shame your amazing work got knocked over and broken!