1/100 Zaku Warrior Custom

This is an old kit, I believe I built it in 2005 or so...  Anyways I've decided to do some touch ups on it and then I'm going to give it a gloss top coat to seal it away.  This was the Lunamaria Gunner Zaku Warrior that I repainted in red.  I was originally planning to just repaint the entire kit with an airbrush this time, however the original paint job has held up fairly well, and since it was one of my better brush paint jobs I've decided to just preserve that work.  I will most likely attempt to make a new one sometime in the near future and try to make a 1/100 Slash pack for it, as that's what I always wanted on it but Bandai never made on in that scale.

I've repainted over some of the red that had other colors rubbed onto it over the years.  I've also repainted all the gold parts and added grey under the side skirts.

MG Independence Gundam ver. RM

Tonight I want to tease at a soon to be project, MG Independence Gundam ver. RM!  After a couple years now of wanting to remake this custom model I'm finally preparing to do it, and it's poised to be much better than the original model that I made 8 years ago (...wow 8 years really?)  Giving my improvements in painting plus the release of an MG Epyon is sure to make this kit much better.  I will be using to MG Wing Gundam EW this time as opposed to the ver KA that I used in 2005 (the EW wasn't released untill 2011)  This is probably going to be 2 to 3 projects away, but I wanted to show off that the base kit has arrived!

HG 1/144 AGE-1 Normal (custom build)

GAT-X205A Age Strike Gundam

Finished this up last night!  It's been an interesting build, redoing the torso and using topcoat for the first time in a spray form, but it turned out pretty well!.  There's some things I'd maybe change but perhaps that's the ambition I need to do this in MG next time!  I will update the progress pics later and here's some poses.  Unfortunately my lighting wasn't at peek time when I took these, look for some better ones later this week!

Project: AGE Strike Gundam UPDATE

Turning the Gundam AGE-1 Normal into a newer version of the Strike Gundam, that is what this project is all about.  The AGE-1 Normal shares a lot of things in common with the Strike, it's standard melee weapons are hidden within it's side-skirts and it also uses different equipment based on different combat situations, it's commonly concidered to also share design features with the RX-78-2 however I think that it's shape more closely resembles the Mk-II.  But focusing on the former, this project will focus on making the AGE-1 Normal into a successor for the Strike.  This will include a new paint scheme for the main body, head, and waist sections.  In addition to using the two wears the AGE-1 already uses (Titus and Spallow), the AGE Strike Gundam will also use the wears of the AGE-2 and AGE-3 gundams.  All but some will be recolored.  For now, the project will be started with just the AGE-1 Normal recolor, next will will see the Spallow equipment added and then the Double Bullet (an AGE-2 wear) will be introduced.  For now, here are some early works images...

If you look closely you can see my HG 1/144 00 Qan(T).

 These images are from my second attempt on the body, as you can see the first one is completed sitting in the background.  And yes, that's a roll of toilet paper, I couldn't find anything else to stand the toothpicks on.

 More in the days to come!

Here's some of what I did tonight, took the Dremell to the backpack and got rid of that ugly spoiler on the back.  Why Bandai decided that looked good is still beyond me, thankfully, I can remove it.

It's been painted in the new blue now and shall spend the night curing, till tomorrow when it'll get a second coat.

MG 1/100 Wing Gundam ver.KA (custom build)

ZGMF-X15A Independence Gundam

more pictures:

These pictures, just taken today, are of my original build of this custom gunpla.  Looking at it up close again just makes me see the need to remake this model all the more, and then turn this one into a battle damaged version.

previous post about this model here

ZGMF-X15A Independence Gundam (MG Wing Gundam ver.KA custom build)

Here it is, the model I've put the most work into, way back in 2005 I believe is when I made this.  It's mostly the MG Wing Gundam ver.KA, however it has the head of the MG God Gundam and the right side-skirt has been modified with the beam sword off the 1/100 Epyon Gundam.  It's been a long time since I made this and now that the kit has been re-released as well as there being a MG Epyon now, I plan to redo this project.  Even so, this is still my most beloved model.  Gonna break this out of storage here soon and take some knew pics.

VFMS-X15A Indpendence Gundam Kai (MG Wing Gundam custom build)

While not my first custom gundam model I've made, it is one that I like a lot even though it's a simple recolor of the MG Wing Gundam.  This is a unit that is in my fanfic, which I'm in the process of making and posting pages on the Gundam Fanon Wiki; which by the way is an excellent site for creating your own articles about gundam!  More pics another time.