Humable Model God and Master (2/8/2009)
A post to break the months of silence. Yup, I haven't been making any models for the past months (so they have been multiplying :P). Have been messing with figures recently.
Anyway the God Gundam and Master Gundam featured here are action figures, not MSIA but Humable Model by Banpresto. I've done a more detailed writeup on them here. These two are really great fun to play with and they ended up having 4 days of photoshoot.
Cherudim Gundam (28/2/2009)
Worked on this one from end-February to early-March.
Found the design a bit plain so I did a tiny bit of detailing on the arms, drilled holes at the shoulder armour and some lines at the lower arms. Work went rather well with no disasters.
Nice kit. Compared to 00, Cherudim has better 'abdominal' articulation but lacks at the feet-ankle joint. Cherudim has some fresh design for the feet, looks pretty cool but like hooves to me. The small surface area and limited articulation of the feet makes it harder for it to stand properly.
With the new weapons introduced in the anime, I wonder how Bandai will release them. In another 'Trans-am gloss injection' kit?
[6/4] Practically the whole day on phototaking. Was experimenting with a table lamp as light source. Moving the lamp around trying to light up dark areas but in turn introducing shadows here and there. Somehow my camera don't capture the green well. Will post the photos soon.
O Raiser (21/2/2009)
Second kit of 2009, spent 2 half days on it.
Can be said to be my first non-humanoid kit, I think.
Ok, a few posts down theres Primrose.
Looks pretty nice. The side binders feels like its loosely connected to the main body but somehow it holds pretty well. The kit only has 2 pieces of parts, the least number I've ever seen in a HG.
Then comes the combination with the 00 Gundam kit completed last month. Thats where I messed up. I thought those 3 holes on the GN Drives are just holes, I filled them up. It was until I wanted to do the combination then I realized that the hole is used to attach the side binder on. PANIC!!! Buy another 00 or Raiser? No, to save money, I made 2 custom connectors (pic in the 00 Gundam photoshoot) to swap with the original and all went well. Phew.
00 Gundam (16/1/2009)
My first build of 2009!
Spent 2 days on it.
All the new joints and polycaps make this build rather fresh and interesting. Painting on the clear blue is a bit tricky. One thing I don't like is the 3 deep "holes" at the GN Drives so I filled them up with putty. Not as skilled as the modeller of DHM, I just painted and lined the detail on the flat surface. Tried scratching a few panel lines, very few, didn't turn out that good though.
[24/2] Spent the whole day phototaking 00 and Raiser. Tried to strike dynamic poses to utilize the flexibility of the kit. The GN Drives held stiff with the shield and the binders. The shield attaches loosely to the arm, fine if you don't touch it much. Transforming the GN Sword to Rifle mode and back has loosen the handle, now sometimes the sword bends splitting the handle when it is attached to the side armor. Swapping parts for the joint GN Sword further loosen the hinge of the splitting handle.
Final 3(4) of December'08
The first day of 2009!
Recorded my complete gunpla build for 2008!
Lets see.. 14 kits done last year.
Not bad more then 10, but theres still a lot more untouched kits in the stash.
Got to get down to counting them some time...
Hope the time and mood will come to combo those kits off.
Happy 2009 to whoever who comes by!
Gundam TR-1 [Hazel Owsla] (29/12/2008)
A second Hazel Custom kit to complement the Primose parts. Even though it has the compact shoulder armor to differentiate it from the Hazel Custom, I added a little bit of red and used grey in place of black. Pretty snappy, used 2 days for it.
Primrose was nice as an escape pod but in body mode its not that nice. The connector for the right arm slags downward and they are kind of loose. I like it better with the Hazel body in Chobam armor (a mode I named "Owsla Original"). But the Primrose bodies still looks good on the Hazel and Advanced Hazel.
With the photoshoot I brought out the Hrududu and played parts swapping. The AoZ series is actually fun to play with but I would feel more comfortable playing and parts swapping if they are toys not models.
Primrose (23/12/2003)
Went on to this right after Hrairoo, got to keep the modelling mojo flowing. Anyway its been in the box for almost 2 years (same goes to the other AoZ kits left) better get it done up.
Being an FG (Furoku Grade, "Gift Grade") its all white, spent quite some time painting and spraying this one tray kit. Did one in white and one in Titans colors. It looks fun, its got the escape pod mode, the body mode and it can "socialise" with other AoZ parts. But as soon as its painted you won't want to do anything funny as it will scratch the paint. The beam cannon has superb detail that was hard to paint.
As said the escape pod mode was fun, part swapping then photo frenzy.