1/35 "Ingram 2" Patlabor - Part 1

Moved away from armour kits for a while & going back to one of my 1^st loves Sci-Fi, or in this case more correctly Gundam & Anime.

This kit is called “AV-98 Ingram 2” & is meant to be a 1:35 scale model of the armoured unit used by Tokyo police in the TV series.  These are meant to be just a snap fix kit with no painting, but I always paint & try to remove as many seam lines as possible, so here is how I built mine.

For all the white parts I am going to use my stock Vallejo white primer (VAL 600) as it goes on well, has a slight satin sheen when sprayed in very light coats & will not hide any of the kits detail.

To make both feet I put the “poly cap” (PC J) into part F14 & glued this & F15 together.  The seam lines were sanded down & the unit sprayed in Vallejo Plate Mail primer (VAL 70.628).

The sole of the foot (A3) & the base (A1) were glued together & allowed to dry.  The completed base & heel (A11) were sanded and sprayed Satin Black & allowed to dry.  The tops of the foot (I6) & (I1) were painted white then all the parts just press into the foot support.

The right hand leg has an opening side where a pistol sits & a mechanism pulls the gun out when the outer armour is moved.  The inner working (E9,16,17,23,24,25 & 30) were sprayed in Plate Mail  primer. 

As the leg interior may be on show it will be painted & have some details added. The whole leg parts were primed with grey primer (VAL 601). The insides of part (D8 & D20) were given several light coats of Exhaust Manifold ( 77.723) from the Vallejo “Metal Color” range were applied to the inside. When dry the inner was masked & the outer sectioned sprayed with “Metal Color” Aluminium ( 77.701). This gives just a slight colour change when you put the final leg together.

The inner working just push fitted together but pay attention to the manual as to how to fit part E30 as this need to move a certain way. 

The left leg has no moving parts, but to keep the same colour scheme the parts D7 & D19 were primed & the inner & outer parts sprayed the same Exhaust Manifold & Aluminium colours.  The small fixing pieces for the legs (D14,D15,E18 & E19) were sprayed with Plate Mail  primer.