PLA=Out Magazine

There is a new magazine coming and I would love to be a part of it!! So I am posting some better photos of my work as I believe I have improved upon my photo skills in the past few years. Please bare with me as I repost some of my work that you have seen before. Do not worry. I will have an update to the FWS this week as I am 90% complete with first fitting at this point.

The first one is my MSA-0011 BST Gundam. Its a G-System Full resin kit. That took me approximately 5 months to build. It was my first large scale full resin kit. It is extremely heavy and so I had to pin a large amount of the parts to assist in weight bearing. I added wiring to the upper boosters below the fuel tanks. Scribed in extra panel lining. The paint scheme is a simple one for me with 2 blues, red, white, and grey. I over sprayed the blue on the sides of the boosters, and used a clear red over spray on the boosters to add a hot look to them. The decals are a custom selection of my own. design as the kit came with very few decals.

 Now my other pride and joy. PG Gundam 00 Raiser!
I love the 00 series and this was a true 3-4 month labor of love. I cut armor to expose internals. scribed in a lot of extra lines. used 3 blues, 2 whites, and 2 reds to complete the color scheme for this kit.

As always thank you for stopping by. T.G.

RX-93 Nu Gundam HWS Conversion WIP 2

A lot of head way has been made on the chest. I have had to do a lot of pinning to get the pieces to set in place and at the proper angles. As some of the fits were very poor to say the least. I have done a lot of sanding and cutting on the underside of the parts to get them to fit in place, followed by pins to make sure things can be easily epoxied into position post paint. I got the back pack and head mounted last night but I was too tired to take any pictures of that part. I will have to owe you those.

Lets start here; As you can see I used 4 pins to make this center chest piece stay in the right position. I had to add a pin because there is a piece that attaches to the underside here.

The collar isn't pinned, but I did have to do a considerable amount of hot water reshaping to get a good fit.

Everything on this side fits together pretty nicely, the other side I am going to have to build up a little bit though.

I know that the chest sides are a little uneven, I fixed that last night.

Thats where I am at so far. I have to do the arms and weapons still, and a lot of clean up. But things are moving along nicely.  I have completed the legs and waist. Pictures of that are below.

 I decided to go without the covers on the legs side armor, the exposed internals are more my style any way.

 I added details to the center sections to help it blend in with the rest of the waist.

As always thank you for stopping by T.G.

MG RX-93 HWS(Heavy Weapon System) Conversion WIP 1

Well once again the PG curse hit me and as I sat down to build away, I get hit with the reality of the fact I have no clue what direction I want to go with it yet. Now I come up with a Steam Punk version of the PG Zeta, but that will now have to wait as I know very little about steam punk so Pinterest is helping me out with that a lot for motivation and inspiration.

But I digress....I have completed the snap fit on the MG kit, and have the legs and waist completed resin wise, at least to the point that I can move forward with the rest to ensure a clean fit. This is my first true conversion kit using the full frame. The fit is extremely tight in most places, so much so that it is requiring me to shave away a lot of the inner frame resin and some of the plastic frame. Thats all easy stuff though, and this kit is just impressive. Plus it was a gift for christmas.

Above you can see some of the pieces waiting to be organized after a month in the cleaning solution. And a little of the work on one of the legs. Below is a little bit if the T.G. style coming through. I didnt like the little rivets that were on the ankle guards; so I used my pins sunk them in and drilled through and set them in place. 

Much better, at least in my opinion.

The next five slides are a side by side comparison of the Original leg vs the loosely set resin conversion leg.

Below is the primed and cleaned shield. With a little added flair to it.

Now heres my completed waist section. I had to add details to the rear center section. The original piece was plain smooth plastic...that did not fit the rest of the kit at all. So Here it is ready for primer to see where it needs more sanding.....ugh resin is so much sanding.

Here you can see the under side of the piece. I pinned the two skirt pieces together because they are not very stable and in final assembly it will be a lot easier to position with the pins in place.

And now the front. Nothing crazy to do here. I added a little more flair to the front center section to keep it in line with the rear. Symmetry is nice unless its done via scribing then its just work. :)

Fit is nice after  a lot of massaging.

This is the rear of the front skirt. You can see how how its all based on the Nu Gundam kit its a true Heavy Weapon System.

A few pictures of the completed waist section.

As always, thank you for stopping by. T.G.