MG 1/100 Hyaku-Shiki Ver. 2.0

After stripping off the original gold plating (from the last WIP update), I added few panel lines and that was basically what I did in terms of modding. Bandai did a great job redefining the old Hyaku-Shiki kit by improving its much outdated body proportions. Now, the new version looks sharper and more aggressive. I hope they do more with the rest of Z Gundam line.

The Alcald gold paints were used for its armor.
Please enjoy!

MG 1/100 Hyaku-Shiki Ver. 2.0 (Work in Progress)

The version 2.0 of the MG Hyaku-Shiki was finally released. 

First of all, the kit itself comes in a semi-gloss gold coating (or painting, whichever makes sense). To my very surprise, the quality of the factory gold was very good, and it actually looked much better than those old super gloss gold coatings.

I decided to remove all the existing gold coating and paint it with my favorite metallic gold from Alclad. As much as I appreciate Bandai's new semi-gloss gold, it just does not compare with the quality of the custom painted gold. 

I cut all the gold pieces from the runners, sanded & polished them, and put them under Clorox bleach for 3-4 days. Most of the painting was dissolved gradually except from few small deep areas. I managed to remove remaining layer of coating completely from those areas with T-01m thinner from Gaia color.

RE 1/100 GP-04G Gerbera

The popularity of GP04 has always been there, but we were only able to work on this model through a resin or a bootleg kit in the past.

Bandai has finally released it under their own brand name, and I had to put my hands on to see how it really was.

I could tell many detail parts were not separated in pieces, probably in order to keep the manufacturing costs down (unlike 1/100 Master Grades, RE grades are cheaper lines of 1/100 scale).

The overall design and proportion were great even compare to MG, but there were some minor issues that I had to modify.

First, I added 2 mm more to the torso for better proportion. 

Second, I extended the feet unit 3 mm longer and made it sharper. 

I know Bandai has produced the kit based on their original design, but I liked the longer and sharper designs that the old resin kits offered. It just makes the kit look lot more aggressive. 

I erased the factory panel lines on the thigh units and designed my own, and added additional lines on different areas for more details.

Anyhow, here it is. Please enjoy.

MG 1/100 FA-78-1 Full Armor Gundam

FA Gundam only exists in concept. 

Many variations of RX-78 have been introduced in past years,

and the full armored ground version has always been one of the most popular ones.

The original kit comes entirely in green except few areas such as arms,

and I tried to change its color scheme to resemble more like Amuro Ray's original suit.

I mixed the green in two tones and the rest are pretty much the usual multi tone grey I like to use.

Enjoy.

PG RX-0 Unicorn Gundam Ver. PrimaryMH

The main focus of the design on this build was to make distinction 

from the original Unicorn Gundam which has single white tone color.

I often felt that single tone color scheme was bit too boring.

I gave new panel lines for deeper details and separated the color into white and two toned grey.

I tried to keep the colors as subtle as possible in order for people to

still recognize it as the original Unicorn Gundam.

Enjoy.

FA-93HWS Nu Gundam Ver. Ka

 The kit I worked on this time was the combination of MG 1/100 Nu Gundam Ver, Ka and the newly released HWS expansion set for the Hi-Nu version.

As far as I know, the HWS concept was originally meant for the Nu Gundam but never made it to the production, and thus I decided to build one for the original Nu instead of the new Hi-Nu kit.

Because of the size of Nu Ver. Ka, I realized the expansion set actually goes much better than with relatively shorter and smaller Hi-Nu, which was a good thing.

I extended the torso area for another 3mm, and also did several modification for the installation.

Due to rather minimal detail of the armors on the set, I added panel lines and separated the colors in three tones of grey.

Thank you and enjoy.

Ez-8 "Burst"

Teram Nexus Operation Accord-

It has been a year since we formed a global team of Gunpla builders under name of Team Nexus. 

We have been widely successful in terms of gaining audiences throughout different continents,
and also have tried to do the best in our parts to give motivation and inspiration on building Gunpla to those people in this amazing hobby.

To celebrate our 1 yr anniversary,
we decided to bring a group build of using the same kit (HGUC Ez-8) with each member's own taste of modification. 

All of our 7 builds can be found in our official website http://www.nxsworx.info/ and also on two major Gunpla sites http://www.gundamkitscollection.com/ and http://www.gunplamodify.info/

I named my version of Ez-8 "Burst", and as its name already explains that it is heavy armament assault type unit with distinct color choice of famous "Test Type". 

Hope everyone enjoys it, and also don't forget to go check out our talented members' works as well.

Shining Gundam Evolve

Shining Gundam Evolve

An another "Evolve" themed Strike based modded build was finished.

I always wanted to build Shining Gundam and it was a good opportunity for me to do another go around using that incredible Strike frame. This time, it was bit more tricky compare to the God Gundam i recently finished due to the transformation gimmicks, but was worth putting time and effort to it.

For some reason, the feet units are my favorite part of this build. 

To me, those SG feet are the best looking feet among any Gundam. 

Yes, interesting..

God Gundam Evolve

Finished the latest project on remodding the old MG 1/100 God Gundam.

The base kit that was used as a main frame was MG Build Strike Gundam,
and I borrowed the original components of armors from the old kit.

I spent great deal of time scribbing new panel lines and adding plaplates for the details,
but the main purpose was to reduce the discrepancy between the old and the new
while keeping the proper "evolve" looks.

So here it is, the one and only MG God Gundam Evolve.

Enjoy.

RG 1/144 Zeta Project

The modification version of the RG 1/144 Zeta. 

It was designed as high mobility & heavy assault type, 

which in theory to be capable of handling the solo task of mainly involve penetrating deep into the field of enemy vessels and can change the course of the battle. 

- Original color scheme of bright red, white, grey and deep grey were used.

- Original Hyper mega particle beam cannon

- Stock hyper mega launcher

- High mobility booster units from EX-S Gundam was modded onto the Zeta wing units.

- 1/48 head display was painted in same color scheme.

- Metal parts were used in various areas.

MG 1/100 RX-78-3 (G3) gundam

This build was originally intended to be made as an entry for 2013 Plamo competition by HLJ tv.

I have always wanted to build a G3 version of RX78,

and it was a good opportunity for me to do that.

Also, the new Ver. 3.0 of the RX78 was just released that time as well.

I chose the popular grey-purple of the original G3 concept, and made mine a bit darker.

I added the long rifle, shoulder rail gun, and the gouf shield gun

 to incorporate the wider range of combat ability to the G3 gundam.

Hope everyone enjoys.

MG 1/100 MSN-04Sazabi Ver. Ka

MG 1/100 Sazabi Ver Ka. can safely be the best MG of all time.

It has the most number of pieces, and it is the largest among all.

The paint job itself was actually easier than working on the other kits,

 mainly because I had so much surface areas to work with. 

Pre-transfomored version already looks really good, 

but once you transform it into the open hatch version, 

it is the most beautiful model kit out there.

As usual, the Max type preshading technique was used for the paint job.

Enjoy.

MG 1/100 Geara Doga - Shin Matsunaga custom

I don't normally enjoy working on Zaku series, 

purely due to those beads on the energy cables.

They are even very tricky to paint as well as connecting them.

When I saw this Geara Doga online, i thought it was agood  chance to invest some time on it,

because it just looked so much better than normal zakus.

I decided to apply an original color theme, and instantly it was Shin Matsunaga.

Not only he was my favorite Zeon pilot, his custom colors are way nicer than the greens.

I wanted a zaku that does not look too zakuish..

Anyhow, here it is.

Shin Matsunaga custom.

Elyn Hobby 1/100 Kshatriya

Finally, the project has finished.

1,200 pieces.

First of all, let me start with cons.

There are too many pieces missing in the kit,

and many of the pieces that were present, overlapped with each other.

For example, my own kit came with two left side shoulder joint armors instead of left and right.

Other pieces were okay in terms of being duplicate unless they were like head units.

Also, 90% of the pieces never snap fitted..

I had to use 3 tubes of crazy glues to complete this build..

Some pieces even had male parts when there was no female part, etc.

GBWC 2013 @ Anime Expo 2013 Convention center

Won 1/100 category at GBWC 2013!

was introduced on Flipboard.

I met many talented modelers who actively are running their own Gunpla community in Southern 

Cali. Great people.

It was such a great experience for me as a modeler, and an opportunity to learn.

MG 1/100 Duel Gundam Assault Shroud - Custom Armor

Hate the pilot, not the mobile suits. 

That is like the best decription applying to this particular kit.

As much as i hate Yzak, i love Duel gundam.

A beefy external armor with sleek main body armor underneath is very well designed in my opinion.

By the way, Duel was the only one of the GAT-X series,

 which ended up not being destroyed, and yet it was wearing a shroud (according to its very own name). Irony it is.

MG 1/100 Duel Gundam Assault Shroud