Super Mecha Champions Hurricane (mini-kit)

 The time has come to begin work on the third and final mini-kit I have for Super Mecha Champions, and that is the Hurricane.

Ingame transformable between plane and mecha, it is a top tier suit to play with, but I personally haven`t given it that much game time unless it was for quests so far.

 

The set comes with quite a nice amount of sprues, as could be seen in this unboxing video, and some stickers that are as always tossed aside.

 

 

Now, I must say that on first look of the design, I doubt this one would be able to stand on it's legs and carry the wing weights.

 

But of we go, and the body section is the first to be assembled.  Now out of the three kits, this also is by far the fiddliest to put together, with lots of tiny pieces that you can`t force into the slots, like the antenna for example, to prevent snapping.

 

 

After that, the wing pods are on the plan.   These take quite a bit of parts to put together.

But once you figure out the correct sequence, the mirrored second wing goes way faster.

That brings us to the legs.  Now as you can imagine, those small feet are nowwhere going to carry the upper body and the bulky wing assemblies later on, hence why I got that base ready.  I also didn`t attach the feet just yet, waiting for the model to be assembled and then I can still "wiggle" them a bit to fit it suitably.

With the legs assembled, it,s time to put together the whole mecha and add it on a base just to stand upright.  Being rather fragile with all the little portrusions, I suggest filling of about a quarter of the balljoints and then glue the pieces in place though.

And then the mecha is completed.  Definitly the most fidly one of the three kits, but now it's time to go painting and bring it better to life, even though the blue of the plastic isn't to shabby a representation of it's ingame blue colour.

 

 

First job is putting Vallejo's black on all the engine parts, exhausts and the likes, namely all the sections that will become dark grey in the end.

I also did the two layers of blue on the model, respectively Dark Blue and Heavy Blue, both from Vallejo, to do the dark blueish areas as well as the more vibrant, lighter blue areas.

So then we went to the smaller sections that needs to be done, and base colours where put on it for those as well.  That meant that for the orange areas I used Vallejo Amaranth Red, Coat D'Arms Dark sand for the yellow section and Cold Grey from Vallejo for what will become the white lines.  Only two light blue bands when it's finished aren't base layered yet, as those will start off from a blue that I will be using in the final layer of the main body.

So with those done, it is time to go in the second layer to start adding the contrast.  I began with the grey sections first, using Dark Rubber from Vallejo.

Moving on to the biggest part of the model, the blue areas, the dark tone is done with Vallejo Imperial Blue, while for the more vibrant sections I opted for Hideous Blue from Coat D'Arms.

For the smaller colours, Vallejo Sun Yellow was used for the yellow, the orange got a layer of Orange Fire by Vallejo and the cold grey sections where done with Sky Grey from Vallejo as well.

That meant the second layer done, so let's move on to the third and final one, beginning with the grey areas receiving a final touch up with Necromancer Cloak from The Army Painter.

 

 

The blue tones where then finished off, with the darker sections getting a layer of Intense Blue and the lighter ones one of Magic Blue, both by Vallejo.  The latter is also used now as the first coat of blue for the coils on the wings and the engine intakes. 

For the smaller sections, I used the following colours, all from Vallejo: White for the markings, Moon Yellow and Heavy Orange for those respective areas, while the coils where finished with first Falcon Turquoise and then Electric Blue. 

The model now completely painted, all that is needed is a layer of Matte Varnish from the AK range, and basing the mecha.

And there we have it, the third and final of the Super Mecha Champions line of mini-kits has been finished now.  I sincerly hope they will start doing the other mecha from the game as well in this range, but I guess that is a case of wait and see...