tetsujin
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Since I can't presently move forward with my Armored Core build (waiting on a shipment of paint) I've decided to spend some time working on another project.
I was a bit inspired by the model work in the recently reissued "How to Build Gundam" books, in which they did a lot of builds in which they turned the lousy kits of the early 1980s into some very nice builds - in some cases just a few light touches of the hacksaw were needed to cleanse the old kits of their "I LIKE PIE" vibe, and get them on the road to recovery.
So I decided to get to work on a kit that's been bugging me since its release: the HGUC Mass-Production Guncannon from Gundam 0080. It's a reasonably good kit overall but it suffers from some distortion of the design that leaves a couple areas looking cheap, and a couple other areas looking unbalanced in terms of design...
WIP page
What I've done so far is replace the hands with Kotobukiya parts, hack the legs to give them a nicer taper (it's one of several leg and foot mods I want to do) and hacked the chest block to make it a bit squatter.
Other areas I really want to tackle are the cannons (the cannons retract - the sliding section of the cannon barrel is way too thin relative to the outer part) and the shoulders (the shoulder armor is nicely bulky, but the shoulder joints themselves are a bit too small in there). And at some point the kit will be getting all-new feet: I figure the biggest problem making the kit's big legs look bad is the fact that they don't have big feet to match.
I was a bit inspired by the model work in the recently reissued "How to Build Gundam" books, in which they did a lot of builds in which they turned the lousy kits of the early 1980s into some very nice builds - in some cases just a few light touches of the hacksaw were needed to cleanse the old kits of their "I LIKE PIE" vibe, and get them on the road to recovery.
So I decided to get to work on a kit that's been bugging me since its release: the HGUC Mass-Production Guncannon from Gundam 0080. It's a reasonably good kit overall but it suffers from some distortion of the design that leaves a couple areas looking cheap, and a couple other areas looking unbalanced in terms of design...
WIP page
What I've done so far is replace the hands with Kotobukiya parts, hack the legs to give them a nicer taper (it's one of several leg and foot mods I want to do) and hacked the chest block to make it a bit squatter.
Other areas I really want to tackle are the cannons (the cannons retract - the sliding section of the cannon barrel is way too thin relative to the outer part) and the shoulders (the shoulder armor is nicely bulky, but the shoulder joints themselves are a bit too small in there). And at some point the kit will be getting all-new feet: I figure the biggest problem making the kit's big legs look bad is the fact that they don't have big feet to match.