ZGMF-X56S/β Sword Impulse Gundam Photodump

Because I didn’t have anything to do (boooo, job market), I took some pictures of Sword Impulse since it was so heavily neglected when I put the page up. It’s still kinda tough to work with since the blades are huge, but I did have a lot of fun playing around with it.

Sword Impulse page up! Sinanju WiP!

Finally! Now to get Nu and Sazabi’s pages done…

WiP on Sinanju (I need a name for it…), I ordered the paint today and HLJ (Hobbywave was out..it figures ) will hopefully ship my decals soon. I managed to get all off the current decals off tonight and sand the parts down, though removing the gold paint from all of the black parts will probably take a bit of time.

Sinanju reminds me of an Evangelion right now…mostly a berserk one. I also think I worked out how I’m going to modify the arms!

It seems like right now most of my future projects are going to be going back to old models and touching them up or giving them some extra love…not that I am complaining. It’s nice to be able to bring what I can do now to kits that I built back when I felt that something like topcoating was beyond me. More on this as it develops though, SInanju is my current priority.

Projected Project- Sinanju Revisited

Sinanju was one of my earliest MGs and one of the most time consuming that I’ve done yet. Being such an early model for me, there are a lot of things that I look at now (especially the decals) and feel I can do better. Not to mention the semi-gloss topcoat I used brought out all the spots where I used the GM red to hide clip marks, thus making things way worse. You can’t see it in pictures unless I purposefully take them like that or just looking at it, but I know it’s there.

So, I’ll be doing fixing it up! With no future gunpla projects coming my way (aside from a super-hawt 30th Anniversary RX-78 care of Robert and another project I haven’t even worked out 100%), I’ve decided that I’ll be going back and giving The Big Red Bastard some extra love, like it didn’t get enough to begin with. Planned so far-

• Paint all red parts with Tamiya TS-50 Mica Blue
• Paint all black parts with Tamiya TS-29 semi-gloss black
• Paint the entire frame with Tamiya TS-38 gunmetal
• use Tamiya X-11 Chrome Silver to redo the gold detail, this time using mr. masking sol or taking extra time with an alcohol-dipped toothpick to clean up. I’m also going to use the X-11 paint for the tubing.
• Waterslide decals
• Modify both forearms for better shield usage
• Find a way to reinforce the weak wrists

Ambitious? Yeah. But I think it’ll be well worth the extra effort. By the by, does anyone know if Mr. mark setter has ill effects on paint?

I did get started to a degree tonight, stripping down Sinanju to just the frame and laying out all of the armor.

Only a few more things-

• Made a Twitter account for the website so I can do quick updates
• Added a Flickr account for brief WIP-updates
• Finished Sword Impulse photos, started on Nu Gundam

Sadly, I’ll be gone tomorrow which means I won’t be able to get any more stuff done until later in the week.

Coming soon…

WIP- Sword Impulse

While I wait for the paint for this and Nu to arrive I’ve worked on the little bits that I can…

Which basically boils down to the weapons and shield. I could get to work on the frame, but would rather wait on that bit. It’s turning out nice so far, the tamiya metallic red looks wonderful! These pictures don’t do it justice.

Curse you, Bandai!

Yup, caved and bought the MG Sword Impulse. I’ll be trying some new things on it, so we’ll see how it turns out!

Oh Gundam Mark 2, will you ever get built?!