More drilling today, and I fitted the handle on the knuckle shield. The entire assembly is unsanded and stuff, which is why it looks so crappy. I’ll sand down the nubs and slap on a primer coat soon. But first, I plan to at least get started on the mobile suit itself.
Using a spare Zaku shield and spikes from Kämpfer, I made the ‘knuckle’ shield today. A really simple mod, that any dumb modeler with a pin vise can do. Still, I feel strangely gratified.
Next in line for the chopping block is my Master Grade Gelgoog ver. 2.0. As usual with my kits, this one’s been collecting dust for quite some time. I don’t have much planned yet, but I’m thinking Zaku ‘knuckle’ shield (I have a spare) and at least a custom paint job. I’ve had enough of pink for a while now.
You might be wondering, ‘Why Gundam again? What about cars? Or Tanks, etc.?’. Well, the answer is simple. In my ‘cache’ of model kits, Gundams are all that remain.
Is pure win.
Note: This is the progress report I forgot to update. It’s remained unpublished until I noticed it just now.
Today I painted and assembled the leg. The usual pink pearl paint and Alclad Aluminum was used.
Tomorrow I’ll do the other leg, and maybe the arm. Either way, I think I can finish this before Monday. And the seam in the circly thing in the ankles was corrected after the photos were taken.
The total time it took for the legs was a measly half hour. These pictures were taken about 15 minutes apart.
Since I thought the old one sucked, here’s a revised display base.
And since I can’t resist, here’s a comparison to the stock, unpainted, undetailed version.
For the fun of it, and to see what the kit will approximately look like when completed, I took the donor kit’s completed legs, rifle, and right arm and put it onto my version’s body.
I have no idea what my friend has tried to do with the body, but to put it briefly, it’s a beginner’s kit, basically. Sprue marks, seamlines, you name it. It looks like he tried to paint the right leg or something, too. And as you can see, the left foot is missing. Aside from that, Rouge has a sort of a cool stance. It looks ‘lean and mean’. I would’ve put the Aile Striker on it too, but it seems my buddeh has broken the male connectors.
The head is still lacking something, though I can’t put my finger on it. It just looks…not as well-constructed as the rest of the kit so far. Oh well. It could be the cheap-o-rama foil sticker eyes that I was too lazy to paint. We’ll see.
Really small update this time, but I finished completely applying the decals on the body. I’ll seal these with a topcoat soon. This is going exactly as planned, but I can’t help but feel the decals creating a sort of a ‘cluttered’ feeling around the body.
I like the way the lighting plays with the next shot.
As I just found out, there’s some underspray on the inside portion of the shoulder pad I’ll have to fix. Anyways, I’d just like to point out how the graphic on the shoulder of the Strike Rouge (a lion with a rose?) looks totally like the Pokemon, Shaymin. COPEH-RIGHT INFRIGEMENT?!
Well, I (almost) finished the waist unit and decaled it today. It should be noted that my Honda S2000 project isn’t abandoned. Just put on hold, since a certain somebody wants me to get this done, after so long.
I’ll try to get a picture that can show off the paint’s pearl effect next update.
EDIT: Here’s the picture of the pearl effect, as promised. It’s really, really, really hard to photograph…
Right at the caption, there, you see some pink sparkles? That’s the pearl effect. Now imagine it throughout all the pink parts, wherever the light hits. It’s pretty (in real life). Too bad it doesn’t looks as good in the photo.
