1/100 MG Deathscythe Hell EW Two Joes Build - FINAL! (Finally)

When Angels and Demons are Both Bringers of Death...

The Deathscythe Hell Ver EW was a great build and it was nice to have a local friend, not just internet friends, to build this with.  The other Joe still hasn't gotten his urban camo painting done, but I'll get his pictures and post them when he has.  Here are the WIPs:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

I had a different light set up for the last big photo shoot and honestly, I didn't like the way some of these turned out, so I ended up using the flash on my camera on quite a few of them.  Anyway, here are a ton of pics:

Those wings spread out nice and wide!

I painted the vents with a Gundam Marker.

I wish the knee armor came up and covered the knee joint.  That's really a minor complaint.

First time using a topcoat on an unpainted kit...  I don't think I laid it on quite thick enough.

Blurry Pic!

Flash shows the true colors.

I like this pose!

Swoosh!

Angels and Demons... Dan Brown, eat your heart out!

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/100 MG GP-02a Physalis - Part 3

And the Lord Spake:  Let There be Detail Painting!

The MG GP-02a is many things, not many of which are particularly outstanding other than bulk...  The shield, were it made today would be retcon'd for sure to have some sort of support apparatus.  It would have ducts and vents, piping and mesh and a full on internal frame all it's own.  But alas, this kit was made way back in the day when two giant clamshells snapped together was good enough...

There it is, in all it's glory, a big plain beige lump of plastic!  It's huge and heavy and the Physalis can barely hold it up, but I like the concept of it as the MS's cooling system.  I've never been able to figure out how all of the heat from the MS is transfered to the shield, but whatever.

Anyway, it's plain, really plain.  It does come with some stickers, the clear kind, but I like to paint where I can.

And the back, yeah, also beige.  Why oh why Bandai couldn't you have molded the back piece in gray?

First thing I did was paint the red emblem and the triangle.  I filled in some gray details as well. 

You'll have to excuse the red paint.  It's old and acted funny, if I thinned it, it wouldn't cover AT ALL.  So I left it un-thinned and it kind of globbed and streaked.  I also took care of the two triangular ports above the emblem there.

Triangle Man, Triangle Man...  (I hate that song, BTW).

Next up, I painted the back GRAY!

Took a Gundam Marker to the ridged section on the "caps" on the shield ends.

Then I took the same Gundam Marker and went over the support beams.

Then I painted all of the rivets silver.

The arms were a bit boring as well.  So...

I painted the shoulder joints as they can be seen.  I was going to paint the pipes as well, but ended up leaving them as is.

The beast is almost done at this point!  Expect more updates sooner.

Until Next Time: Happy Building!

New Look!

Some of you (the sharp ones) noticed that the blog has a new layout!  Good for you!  You can see!  I'm very proud of you all.  I spent all of yesterday taking pictures of kits that need postings.  While I was at it...

I also took a group shot for the new banner, hope you like it.

The banner picture has in it every Gundam model I have built since the start of my blog in Dec. of 2009 including the ones that received no love from me previously on the blog.  They are in some semblance of left to right order:

1/100 MG GP-02a Gundam Physalis
1/100 MG GM Ver 2.0
1/100 MG Hyaku Shiki HD Color Version
1/100 MG Zeta Gundam Ver 2.0 HD Color Version
1/100 MG Gundam Mk II AEUG HD Color Version
1/144 Shenlong Gundam
1/144 Sandrock Gundam
1/100 MG Gyan
1/100 MG Gouf Ver 2.0
1/144 HG RX-78-2 Gundam G30th Version
1/144 No Grade Core Booster
SD Sonshoukou Gerbera Tetra (Missa Chan)
1/100 MG Shin Musha Gundam Sen Goku No Jin Version
1/100 No Grade Exia
1/144 Wing Gundam w/Heero
1/100 MG Ball Ver Ka
1/100 MG Shin Musha Gundam Mk II
1/144 HG Nataku Custom
1/100 MG Exia Ignition Mode
1/100 MG Deathscythe Hell Ver EW
1/144 Deathscythe Gundam
1/100 MG Wing Gundam Ver TV
1/100 MG Casval's RX-78-2 Gundam
1/144 No Grade Gelgoog (Zulugoog)
1/100 No Grade Gundam 00 Raiser Designer Color Version
1/100 MG Real Type G-Armor (RX-78-2 Gundam and G-Fighter)
and
1/144 Heavy Arms who's post has garnered the most single page views of all of my posts!

Not pictured are the three Code Geass kits I have built which may get their own posting eventually.

Here are some shots from the shoot:

That's all!

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/100 MG Deathscythe Hell EW Two Joes Build - Part 3

DEATHSCYTHE HELL... ASSEMMMMMBBBLLLLLEEE!!!!

 

Ehem...  I mean, the Deathscythe is pretty much done at this point.  Well, the actual kit has been done for quite some time.  I'll keep going with a few more in progress posts and hopefully, I can get all my pictures taken of finished kits over Memorial Day weekend.

Strike a pose!

Same pose, basically the same picture, but whatevs. :-P

Here are all of the parts drying on my custom made drying board.

I can never seem to find Styrofoam when I need it, so I took a couple different boards of that compressed cardboard wood-like material and drilled holes in them for sticking the bamboo rods into.

These last three pictures were taken from my cell phone, so please forgive the less that usual quality (not that my camera is all that great either though).

Anywho, this was my first ever successful attempt at a top coat that didn't end up breaking something *knocks on wood and crosses fingers*.  that last one was a HG Zaku II Char's Custom that I had painted in olive drab before the production type was released and, like an idiot, I soaked the plastic, and the ball joints and the hip peg broke because of too much friction in the ball joint.

Up next will be an update on the GP-02a as soon as I get anouth few minute free to post.  Then an un-announced treat for you Gundam 00 fans.

1/100 TT Hongli MG Hi-Nu Gundam Couple's Build - Part 3

Fixing Some Things...

All righty, all right.  It's been too long, but just when I got all set to finally update, Google has the blogger down...  Oh well.

So, I talked about the issue with the head last time, I think.  The eyes sit too low in the head and the head camera doesn't go all the way up into the mohawk.

I took the top off... ;-)...

I decided instead of trying to make that piece fit all the way in there...

I painted it silver in the hollow...

Then clear green to match the camera.

Not perfect, but it works and look a hell of a lot better now.

Then, when building the arm... WEAK PLASTIC WHITENING!

As you can see, part N3 has a rather unique shape to it.  A section of the circular part has another cut into the wall so that the peg of part L37 (which has a stopper block on the bottom side of the peg) won't allow the elbow to bend backwards.  Well, that thin plastic of the elbow just couldn't handle the stress of having the peg inserted.

And it stretched and stressed in two spots.

The elbow bends really far.

This is when a few things happened all at once.  I straightened the arm so it could use the gatling gun, the elbow joint made an awful click... and...

This armor piece decided it HATES the arm and never wants to be a part of it again...  no really, nothing is broke, the white piece just doesn't like being there.

Oh, also...

N3 broke...

I was by no means expecting this kit to turn out well, I wasn't expecting even 80% Bandai quality...  I'm glad my expectations were so low...