The Hind End of Space

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I’ve been meaning to paint this kit for a while, so I figured it was time to make an HGUC RGM-79SP GM Sniper II, Lydo Wolf Custom to replace the old one I did with conversion parts. You can see them side by side in the bottom pic. It’s like night and day.

I didn’t do much in the way of modding. I just replaced the head antenna with one from the Builders Parts HD set. It’s much more detailed and just looks better. The decals came from a variety of sources, mostly from the custom sheet SamuelDecal made for my original one.

That’s all for the kits I filmed last spring. More will be coming soon!

sophiesgunpla:

Much like the GM Blue Destiny, this HGUC MS-14JG Gelgoog Jaeger has been sitting on my shelf awaiting paint since 2008. I didn’t want to go with the regular not-Char colors, so I used the color scheme seen in that one SD Gundam special where they travel into the “real” Gundam world. I also threw on some decals assigning this unit to the Chimera Corps.

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I figured an HGUC RX-75 Guntank would be a great kit to do some weathering practice on. There’s not too much to say here, just lots of silver paint scratches, weathering dust, and black washes. I think it came out pretty well. I gave it a bunch of decals to make it a unit for the Earth Federation Army, not the White Base. My version of the White Base MS complement is going to be a bit different… ;)

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I’ve had this HGUC MSM-04G Juaggu kit dry-built for years, but I never decided on a color scheme. After a quick Google search for inspiration, I found someone who chose to color theirs like a Zogok, and bam, it was decided. This little guy is pretty cute, and the articulated snout is probably my favorite part of it. I think I need to refine the weathering a bit more, what with it being an amphibious suit and all. If I recall, this is my first fully-painted amphibious suit in my collection since I “rebooted” my Gunpla shelves back in 2008. How ‘bout that.

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Hokay, time to finally upload some of the pics I took last year…

Here’s Ramba Ral’s MS-09 Dom from Gihren’s Greed, made from the HGUC Dom, Specifically, one from the Jet Stream Attack set. A pretty simple build, with decals from one of the HGUC sets and Ramba’s personal emblem that @asheblitzen supplied for me. I did some weathering on this, mostly just some tan drybrushing on the edges and a light black wash. I didn’t want to make it SUPER weathered since I wanted to make it clear that this suit was pretty new.

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Unit: MSN-00100A Hyaku Shiki Aurelius
Scale: 1/144 scale High Grade Build Fighters
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeta Wars

The last kit from the current bunch is the Hyaku Shiki Aurelius, Quattro’s endgame suit for Zeta Wars. This is basically just a Mega Shiki with the Delta’s head (extra in the kit) and the backpack from the EZ-Arms set. I can’t take full credit for the latter, since I was inspired by a work from Model Arena. The pegs on the backpack had to me removed and drilled out to accommodate the ball joint/pegs for the binders. The name was suggested to me by kampfer-amazing, who originally went with “Aurelia”, but I felt that sounded too feminine for a guy named Four Vaginas. :P

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Unit: MSN-04B Sazabi Ground Type
Scale: 1/144 scale High Grade Universal Century
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeta Wars

A non-Newtype prototype of the Sazabi, for use in ground combat. It’s made for the pilot of that desert MG Gouf Custom I did a few months back. Think of this as a leader for the Zeon remnants in Africa. I based this on the MSN-04B/AMS-04B Sazabi from Kazuhisa Kondo’s designs. The big gatling gun is from one of the System Weapon sets.

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Unit: MS-18H Kämpfer Hagel
Scale: 1/144 scale High Grade Build Fighters
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeta Wars

SO HEY, consider this my first entry in my “Zeta Wars” series. Imagine a ridiculous re-imagining of the events from 0083 all the way up through Unicorn, where Haman returns to the Earth Sphere earlier with a much more powerful army. This suit is a Kämpfer variant constructed on Axis. The base kit is Kämpfer Amazing, with the Powered GM Cardigan gatling guns added in place of the beam gun containers, and the “boxing gloves” from the Zaku Ammazing. It’s simple, but it works, and I can dig it.

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Unit: MS-09R Rick Dom Char Aznable Custom
Scale: 1/100 scale Master Grade
Series: Mobile Suit Gundam (novels)

haha, oops, almost forgot to update two days in a row…

Nothing special to say here. It’s pretty straight out-of-box, with Bandai’s official decals. The stars on the shoulder are another one of my little tributes to Max Watanabe. This is something I’ve wanted to do ever since I read the novels ten years ago. So glad I finally got to it.