Kits: Internally lit Virtual On models
Posted on : 25-03-2010 | By : Cacophanus | In : Toys/Kits
Hardware: Arcade, PlayStation 2, Xbox 360
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A very entrepreneurial Japanese modeller, by the name of ostraking, has managed to inject a selection of lights into the various Kotobukiya and Hasegawa Virtual On model kits. From the Type 94 Temjin from Fragmentary Passage, based off the MBV-04-G Temjin kit from Kotobukiya, to the HBV-502H8 Raiden from Oratan (also from the Kotobukiya line). What’s impressive about these is that much of the surface light sources in the games aren’t easily backlit in a real world kit, this is especially true of the Fei-Yen from Force that has very flat skirt sections – something ostraking has handled with great skill.
I didn’t see a Fei-Yen in the albums on ostraking’s flickr account. I would love to see it lit up though.