Oops, I did it again…

Another month+ without an update. At least I return with pictures! Thanks to Gaijin Gunpla, PG Wing Zero’s wings now attach to the glow in the dark behemoth! Behold!

And that’s not all: Crossbone only has his torso and shoulder touchups before it’s on to the core booster! I’m trying to work a little bit at a time on kits when I find time now between work and school, it’s a total downer than I don’t have the luxury of a lot of free time+disposable income like I used to. Such is life. Some more basic stuff coming down the pip after that, I’m heavily considering painted the Gundam Wing Endless Waltz in their default colors but practicing preshading on them. There’s still plenty of other stuff as well that I can work on, but I’m going to try not to get too far ahead of myself.

Still alive.

Things have been quiet for a minute as I’ve been waiting for replacement parts for Pride’s wings. After trying four times to sand them down smoothly and repaint them and getting nowhere on them, I threw in the towel and decided to start from scratch. All the Dragoon units have been painted white and I just need to apply the stickers to them before they’re done, so one of these days off I’ll just sit down and slam them out.

I finished snapping together my MG Red Frame which completely blows the PG out of the water in terms of goodies, price and articulation. The PG is still impressive in it’s own right thanks to it’s massive size but if you’re looking for THE Red Frame kit to have I think the MG is it unless you hate the Tactical Arms. Admittedly, I’m not a fan of the crossbow/blowtorch thing but luckily it comes with the needed parts to build Blue Frame’s TA instead, making it look that much better as a giant sword. I have some ideas in mind for this later down the line which should wind up making this a fun kit to paint and work with.

Also, I took a trip to Gundam Store and More (based in scenic Michigan) Wednesday and picked up the MG Shenlong since Epyon isn’t arriving until later this month as well as the old 1/100 HG Deathscythe Hell kit. Why such an old kit? It only took me about an hour to get things put together on it and I had to laugh as I remembered how simple things were back in the day. But simple won’t do for this, Deathscythe Hell is my favorite TV Gundam next to Wing Zero.

This is a big undertaking, but with this as inspiration I feel like I need to do this. I just need to figure out how to sharpen up the edges on most of the surfaces and rig some parts up so they fit with the MG Freedom frame.

PG WZC WiP 7 – This is why PG SF isn’t done.

Worth every second of the struggle to get that all hooked up. The best part? I got the switch working! Now I just need to clean up the rifle…but there’s something that’s gonna pull my attention away from this kit again reeeeally soon. More on that when the time comes.

PG SF WiP 6- Here’s something new.

Never really done any LED work before so it’s REALLY messy on the inside (RadioShack of course had zero 3mm LEDs, so I had to pick something that would be bright and work from there) but frankly it’s functional and that’s the key thing to me. This has completely renewed my joy in working on PG kits. In fact, who remembers this one?

Finally building steam back up to finish this guy for my friend…that was what, almost a year ago that I started this thing? Jeeze. I also picked up some stuff for my PG Wing Zero that should really give that kit something to shine about.

But moreover I’ve got the wings mostly done for PG SF, so soon it’ll just be down to the DRAGOONs themselves and the rifles left to finish. I may have missed the march deadline, but this thing is slowly approaching completion.

PG SF WiP 4 – A fruitful day.

But this one shows off the shine much better…

PG SF WiP 3 – I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

As before, the Gundam Australia forum has taken up a donation fund to help out people in need. Any and all donations are appreciated!

Once the blues are added, this will really gain the pop it needs.

WiSSP: 1/144 Kshatriya 2

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.

MG Musha Mk II WiP 2 – Forward Progress

Chugging along, I’ve decided that I’m going to get the most time consuming part of the way right now- prepwork. The katanas are done sans a little touching up here and there to make them perfect (I’ll fix them as soon as my next paycheck comes in), the rifle and polearm still need a fair amount of work before I can call them anywhere near done. For those of you that happened to see what I had so far…throw it out. I decided to rock it up even more than what I originally had in mind since seeing busterbeam‘s frame fired the competitive spirit up to 110%. I can’t help it that it runs in the family, you know? Not that I’m trying to beat the guy (He’s good people!), but I’m sure you’ve felt a similar thing when you’re building the same kit as your friends- you want yours to match up to theirs (or they want theirs to stack up to yours, either way)! I know you guys remember our Sinanju group build and the results of that and this is very similar to that.

(Yeah, GREY SCALE.)

Anyway, on to what we’ve gotten done so far. The entire B runner has been cut out and sanded down, ready for priming. Of course, I’ll be waiting on doing that little bit until the other colored part trees have had the same treatment, save for the frame. I’m sticking to the normal knife-the-nubs-down method on that part unless the area will be visible on the finished kit since it doesn’t make sense to take the effort to make a spot that’s completely obscured have a smooth spot where it joins. Yes, it’s kind of a bad mentality, but it’s an efficient one first and foremost. I start back at work Tuesday so I won’t be able to work as often on it but having bankflow again means you’re going to finally see a lot of other projects finally getting wrapped up or worked on again. I should have the frame for this done tomorrow, or the rest of the colored parts prepped and ready to go. We’ll see which I decide on doing next time.

MG Musha Mark II WiP 1 – Weapons

You know how I said the next post would be about the PG Strike?

Well, I’m a liar. After I wrapped up the build of the Strike (It’s still awaiting decals, the Aile pack and a much better LED) I took a three hour break then wound up digging in to the Musha box. Instead of working on the actual Gundam, I’m going to focus on the weapons first and really make these shine as the well should. The first order of business? Don’t slack like usual with cleaning up the nubs. So far I’ve stuck to getting rid of them with sandpaper, which leaves me with a much nicer edge (no ugly dips!) and despite taking about 4 hours total for what you see here, I’m very happy with it. As far as paint goes, I’ve already got what I want to do planned out. It’s pouring like nobody’s business right now though, so it looks like I’m not going to get to do any painting today. With any luck it stops so I can get a little something done.

MEANWHILE!

Started work on Strike-E’s frame. While I bought the IWSP, the finished product will have the Noir backpack since I’m swapping it with a friend who’s fond of the Strike Noir Strike-E+IWSP combo but doesn’t paint. As you can see, the frame is really solid and well done!

While we’re at it, this one goes out to you, Gaijin Gunpla. Couldn’t have done this without you!

Talk about excessive…and of course, recent talks have decided that this STILL isn’t done. More on that once it’s in action.

I am also curious as to if anyone would be interested in commissioned work. I’m still looking for a job down here and this would be a decent way to make some extra scratch and have some fun doing it. It’s not an entirely serious idea right now, but I do feel comfortable enough asking you guys if you’re interested.