Help Me Out, Please!

Readers of Joe's Gunpla! I need your help! If anyone has access to or knows where I can buy a 1/100 No Grade Duel Gundam Assault Shroud from Gundam SEED please leave a comment and we will get in touch.

Unbuilt in new condition, please and thank you.

Until Next Time: Happy Building!

1/100 NG 00 Raiser Designer's Colors - Part 2

It's... Just Like in The Manual...

To quote Amuro...
Manual pictures and individual runners:

Front Cover

Info on the MS and weapons.

Story info.

Seals and Marking guide

Poses, concept art, and painting guide.

Clear parts

LED unit

back of the LED unit, make sure to screw it in tight or the battery likes to pop out.

THREE OF THEM!  But the MG only comes with one?!  Come on Ban Dai!

0 Raiser parts

Pink Beam Sabers

0 Raiser blue parts.

Drives, GN Sword II parts, other stuff...

Legs, Arms, etc.

AFFECT PARTS!!!

Poly Caps

More 0 Raiser parts.

more poly caps...

Inner frame parts.  These NG kits are on par with early MG kits, in my opinion.

EVEN MORE POLY CAPS, this time they are translucent.

Blue parts for 00 Gundam; shields, shoulders, drives, etc.

A plate with many colors.

0 Raiser plate.  would be "A" but that's already taken.

GN Sword III

Stickers, Seals, Markings.

Lots of markings for the Designer's colors.  I hope Ban Dai releases these as water slides for the MG kit.

56 seals in all on that sheet.  Not as much as a Real Grade though!

Foil stickers...

This will be the first kit in nearly a decade that I use the foil stickers on...  I just can't recreate the stickers under the clear domes on the legs and arms...

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/100 NG 00 Raiser in Designer's Colors - Part 1

In Preparation for MG 00 Raiser

I had just finished Gundam 00 for the first time when MG 00 Raiser was announced and I immediately pre-ordered it!  It's here now, but I won't get to it until the end of summer.  I've got a big project in the works and another HUGE project that I will hopefully complete before the end of August involving 9 kits, ping pong balls, some scrap plastic, magnets, wire, and a dremel tool...  No electricity, though, so don't hope for LEDs.

Anyway, upon first seeing the 00 Gundam, I was none too thrilled with it's design.  I didn't watch 00 while it was airing, so the constant stream of variations on the kit led me to feel annoyed beyond belief!  We got the 00 Gundam, the 0 Raiser, the 00 Raiser, the 00 Raiser Trans AM, the Seven Swords, the limited Seven Swords G Inspection, the Designer's Colors, and then the Condenser Type, and that's just the 1/144 HG's!  It was looking as though the 00 Gundam was going to surpass MG Zaku II 2.0 frames or MG Strike Gundam frames in number of releases!  But at least those were different units, this was just the same Gundam over and over.

The releases stopped though and I started watching Gundam 00.  Admittedly, the first time I saw the 00 Gundam in action, swinging the GN drives forward to create an energy barrier, I still thought the design was a little goofy.  I mean, come on, all the energy from the two GN Drives was routed through those supports on the backpack?  I guess.  Then the 0 Raiser came along and the 00 Gundam reached it's full potential.  That was when my opinions started to make a 180.  When I saw the GN Sword 3, the Raiser Sword, slice through entire battle ships, I was hooked.  I hadn't seen anything like that since Epyon took down Space Fortress Barge!

I wanted a 1/100 scale 00 Gundam to go with my 1/100 NG Exia and I wanted the Raiser and the GN Sword 3.  I didn't need the fancy clear greed stand that came with the normal release, so I opted for the extra markings and LED unit and bought the 1/100 NG 00 Raiser in Designer's Colors.  The lighter tones of blue and grey suit the desing of the MS very well, in my opinion.  On with the kit:

The Box art is very cool, 00 Raiser in full battle ready gear gliding along with the Celestial Being emblem emblazoned on the box in the background.  Simple and elegant.

Top end

Some details explaining the 3 LED units to light up the head and the two drives (note they are not compatible with MG 00 series kits).

The GN Sword 3 with affect parts to make the Raiser Sword.

The GN Sword's II also get the added affect parts.

The 00 Raiser wouldn't be, of course without the 0 Raiser!  And there's a chocolate bunny in the background, to show how long ago I had started this.

Box open!

Parts for GN Sword 3

Parts for 0 Raiser

Stickers! and the A Plate

back of the A Plate...

Basically all the blue parts for the 00 Gundam, drives, shoulders, shields, torso, etc.

Blurry picture!  Legs and such.

0 Raiser parts for the binders

AFFECT PARTS OF DOOM!

White parts for the Legs and Arms

Weapons! and parts for the drives

More 0 Raiser parts!

DITTO!

Clear parts for the head, drives, arms, legs, and GN Swords II

LED units

There's the parts all wrapped up, we'll take a closer look at plates in another posting.

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!

1/100 MG GP-02a Physalis - Final

He's WIDE!

Gato has stolen the Gundam!  And I built it!

WIPs:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Here's a ton of pics, with not much text.  I hurt my finger recently and typing is a pain... literally.

Front

1/4 side

1/4 back turn and you can see his shield is resting on his foot...

Thrusters

Not sure if the red circles were cameras or not, but the stickers for them were metallic.  Silver and clear red.

The "bolts" on the blue parts of the binders painted gray and black around them for depth.

Yes, it has beam sabers!

This guy is a brick, so posing is nearly impossible.

Even in the air...  His shield is still resting on his foot.

Kind of leaning forward in attack mode.

The real show!

Epic!

Even from the back, EPIC!

From above, because I think this warrants that kind of shot.

One time with flash for color.

Shield

Shield minus barrel.

Oh, yeah, the targeting sensor on the shoulder, silver on the back of the clear piece, clear green on top, gray for the rest.

Until Next Time:  Happy Building!