Suzhou Creek vol.8
九四式軽装甲車、履帯以外組立終了。案外プラが硬くて成形に手こずった。
Assembly of “Imperial Japanese Army Light Armored Car Type94 TK” has been completed. The plastic in the kit was hard and took longer than expected to assemble.
サスペンションは原乙未生さん考案 日本戦車独特のシーソー式連動懸架。ただし、これは戦車じゃなく東京瓦斯電気工業製の特殊牽引車。小さいけど正確に再現されている。履帯組立は想像するだに怖ろしいのだが・・・。
The suspension is a seesaw-type interlocking suspension unique to Japanese tanks devised by Tomio Hara. However, this is not a tank but a special towing vehicle made by Tokyo Gas Electric Engineering Co., Ltd. The kit is small but accurately reproduced. By the way, the assembly of the crawler belts is terrifying to me…
figureのガスマスクホースは、0.28mmφ真鍮線に0.23mmφ銅線を巻く。
The figure’s gas mask hose is made by winding 0.23mmφ copper wire around 0.28mmφ brass wire.
問題の手。サイズもモールドもこれじゃダメだな。銅線とパテで作りなおし。
All of Figure’s hands cannot be used as they are. I will rebuild these using copper wire and putty.
う~ん、嫌悪感あるけど、つくらねばという妙な使命感もあるのだよ。
Hmm, I hate making Japanese soldiers like this, but I also have a strange sense of mission that I have to make them.
手は顔の半分。中学の美術教師からの尊い教え。そういえば高校の生物の教師は人間の頭の重さは両腕の重さと同じだと話していた。戦争体験での発見だそうな･･･。人として知っておくべきことを教えるのが教師。とにかく造形のサイズを考える上で他との比較は重要ということ。
One hand of mine is half the size of my face. This is a precious lesson from my junior high school art teacher. A high school biology teacher taught me that a person’s head weighs the same as their arms. This seems to be a war experience. A true teacher teaches what a person should know. Anyway, it is important to compare with others when considering the size of the model.