Just to give you a good idea of how far I’m behind on SHF reviews and Gunpla projects I give you these two pictures:
Gunpla backlog
Pile of SHFs.
Will I ever catch up?
Did a little more work on this, actually near done testfitting now but I’ll just make this post about the arms head and torso for now. You might notice that some parts have not been cut off the trees but this is because there are a lot of things planned for this kit and honestly, I don’t feel like doing the extra work for something that probably won’t be on the kit anyway (unless it’s for the purpose of getting the basics of the kit done).
There is really nothing interesting to say about the head. The monoeye moves, but I’m going to be replacing it anyway.
The torso is pretty wide and fairly chunky with a more MG-like construction. I’m looking forward to the trim and how well I’ll be able to handle it. I have some new ideas in mind that might yield some interesting results so we’ll see how that goes.
The arms aren’t too complex, though the way they handled the wrist cuffs is…eh to me. Having that split down the middle probably won’t look too great but then again I have been known to be wrong. The arm has a 90 degree range of movement. The biggest turnoff on this area for me is the hands, you don’t get any open are splayed hands with it. Not a huge deal since Kshatriya only has beam sabers for weapons to hold, but still.
The binders are a cakewalk, just repeat the same thing four times. On a final note…
Meet the CRABSHATRIYA.
Yeah, you read right. A gunpla post. Started working on this big guy tonight since I wanted to get the tedious part out of the way before anything else.
Yeah, I migrated to the floor to work on this one so I could watch some TV while working. The carpet in this room isn’t too shaggy so there’s no worry of lost parts. Anyhow, HUGE. The size of the binders (Which are easily the biggest thing on the runners for Kshatriya) kind of took me by surprise when I opened the box the first time. With all of these things extended and posed, I’m pretty sure this thing is going to have to go on the top shelf due to size alone. Of course, I fully plan on making it worthy of going up to the same shelf as Sinanju…
24 Funnels with 3 nubs each, meaning repeating the same process 72 times. All in all it took me about an hour to sand them down proper (the nice file I have for this is my new best friend) and get the binders and inner part of the binders that they attach to sanded down. Thusfar, everything is looking pretty hunky dory.
Also related to gunpla-building news, some of you may notice the new addition to the top row. It’s not a Kamen Rider page (I’m working on it), but a Commissions page! I was really slacking on getting that up, but maybe now that it’s finally there we might see some new and interesting stuff from other people.
Firstly, gunpla building is on hold for a bit, as stated so many times, airbrush. Two weeks from now? Next week? Who knows. It will be soon, but life is hectic and it’s hard to pull the trigger on a 270$ purchase sometimes. However, it is not hard to throw down for some 40$ purchases, even if they total up.
I got in to the SH Figuarts line this month with the release of their Son Gohan figure and at the same time decided I’d get myself the Son Goku and Kamen Rider Kuuga (Ultimate form) They went for about 25$ a pop but were entirely worth the purchase price. While a diStage or two would be very helpful for fighting poses I’ve definitely gotten enough of a feel for them while playing around with them and I’m really impressed with the quality. Expect a page some time after this week since I’m currently working ten days in a row, which tends to leave one without much energy for doing photoshoots or the like.
In other news, a good friend of mine picked me up the Real Grade RX-78-2 model at SDCC, so that will be here sooner or later (and for a change, I plan to paint it in normal colors!) along with the special edition ANA G30 RX-78-2 care of Rob over at ASM. That will be getting straight built, so if nothing else you can look forward to some pictures of that! Until then, I leave you with some more Figuarts pictures.
Well guys, we’ve started painting the armor parts! We’re a long way from being done still though, there’s a good amount of touch up work and the frame still left to do. You can even see how horrible priming the rifle went the first time!
Just like the Gundam Mk-II frame, the Musha Mk-II frame is just as poseable and outstanding. There are a few differences here and there on the legs, arms and torso but nothing that has any impact on the kit’s articulation.
Think you know what’s going on here? Maybe you should think again. The next update for this model will be to show off it’s completed form, so please keep your hands and feet inside the ride until then.
In other news, you know the PG Strike commission that I’ve been working on?
Base build: done, aside from a little fine tuning. I think I’m going to make the feet black instead of red and maybe adding some white to the torso. I’ve heard suggestions of unifying the red to all be the same color, but to be honest I’m kind of partial to the two tones of red like I am the two tones of white, it breaks the areas up a little bit. Still not done with the weapons, Aile pack, or decals. Hopefully within the month I’ll be getting that stuff so I can get back to work on this little diddy. I really like how it’s turning out so far, as does the person it’s for.
I also picked up this little guy at Colossalcon9 on a whim and built it in the same night. I love this little bugger and you can bet I’ll be giving him a hell of a paintjob and two more buddies to pose with once I’m a little more free up on my time and money. I highly recommend this thing though.
A friend of mine finished his first MG after a rather harsh run-in with the old Gouf Custom MG, and the end result was much better this time around. We’ve got big things planned for this, but for now it’s a good first project. But we’ll end on something that’s bound to be good for a laugh or two…
All glory to the ReZELtank!
Just got word via IRC/toy-world that Bandai has announced a High Grade Universal Century DEEP STRIKER.
SOLD. The funny part is that a friend of mine and I were just joking about a HGUC Deep Striker last night. Does this mean I’m going to have to get the HGUC GP03D to go with it? Crap.
Is that what I think it is!? You bet your ass it is! While I usually don’t post news on my blog (I’ll let Ngee, Gundam Guy and others handle that) this is pretty huge to me so I felt the urge to make a post about it. I’ve been hoping for Gundam W master grades FOREVER. Say what you want to about the series but it was the first Gundam series most of us here stateside saw and because of that it’ll always be somewhat special to me. Not to mention I really loved the mecha, the majority of the designs are really good (with an exception here and there- I’m looking at you, Cancer) and never really got any proper gunpla loving. Hopefully the Wing Gundam getting an MG is followed by other W suits. Also announced was a MG Musha Mk II, which will be using the Gundam 2.0s frame supposedly, along with a SLEW of new HGs for the new ‘High Grade Across the Universal Century’ line, which I’m just going to call HGAU. Right new we’ve got the following for the line:
HG God Gundam
HG ZZ
HG Avalanche Exia
HG Astraea Type-F
HG Gundam X
HG 1 Gundam
This is shaping up to be an incredibly awesome line. The ZZ and X will definitely be on my list of things to pick up!
News care of NK/various forums.
I might as well show you a shot of the Strike, since I ran out of paint and don’t know when it’ll get finished now. You might want to brace yourselves before going any further…
Noir no more, this is the Strike LIME!
So now you can go look at his page! Unrelated, but while scrolling down the completed projects page it’s very easy to see how far I’ve come from when I first started out almost a year ago..
I think you guys remember my HG Sazabi work?
He’s almost done. Just some touch ups and gloss coat left to do!
I have to say, for a long time I was set on only working on the MG versions of mobile suits but these last two models have really won me over to the HGUC line.
While it’s not 100% complete, it’s done enough that I can justify showing it off.
Before:
After:
A very obvious tribute to Busterbeam’s Ebon Enforcer. A gold panel line wash is going to be needed, hopefully I don’t botch it too bad. You might notice I left the eye off of the kit..I was going to originally dot a blue or green eye in, but while test fitting things I liked how the all-gold gave it a visor-like appearance, and an unfeeling one at that, so unmarked it shall stay.
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