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The Flash is a model I built for my nephew, Alec, as a Christmas present. (Merry Christmas, Alec!) It's a resin recast of the rare vinyl Horizon Flash kit, originally released in 1995 but long since unavailable. Like most recasts, it needed a lot of work; lots of holes and ill-fitting parts to deal with.

My biggest change to the kit was painting the yellow parts of his costume gold. (Which is the way the Wally West Flash is kind of sort of colored in the comics -- or as well as yellow with highlights can imitate real gold.) I painted the body using flat colors (except for the gold, of course), and the base with glossy white and yellow. This was the first kit where I used Tamiya-brand acrylic paints; I used to use Ral Partha, but my local hobby shop stopped carrying their paints a while back, and now the company has gone out of business. Fortunately, the Tamiya paints worked just fine.   

The big challenge on this kit was keeping the Flash upright -- the only connection to the base is with the toes of his right boot. I ended up using three pins and lots of Zap-a-Gap superglue, as I did with the Neal Adams Batman model elsewhere on this site.

In any case, I like the way it turned out. The Flash is a big model (over 12" tall), with a terrific, very dynamic pose. I hope my nephew takes good care of it. (I'm sure he will -- right Alec?)   

UPDATE: Twelve months later (December 2002) The Flash finally fell down. (All that Zap-a-Gap broke apart.) I was able to fix it by (surprise!) applying more Zap-a-Gap, since the original pins still worked. So Wally is up and running again, much to my nephew's delight.