tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24385136006418479102024-02-08T07:36:42.392-08:00ORX-005 GaplantGtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-57214884729015207992008-06-05T23:37:00.000-07:002008-06-11T08:32:13.531-07:00waist armorDuring my move to the new house, several items got lost. One of them is the waist armor. The one I built to replace the old one doubles as saber holders.<br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7163-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7163-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Since the height of the MS has increased significantly I extended the waist armors with binders to match the proportion. <br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7172-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7172-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />The only problem I had was the exposed polycap, so I build extra panel extending out from the waist to cover the top of the polycap. This limited the posebility of the armor somewhat, but should not be a hindrance to the legs.<br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7173-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7173-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7190.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7190.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br />Finally, scribing on the back waist armor followed by a thin plastic sheet with openings that exposes the panel lines creates the multilayer details. Many uses similar concepts the detail up the interior of the waist armors such as this example from Keita.<br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=koshi3.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/koshi3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />I think 95% of the construction is complete. Here is an overall shot.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_2612.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2612.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-86051106243851605362008-05-08T10:53:00.000-07:002008-05-08T14:37:05.620-07:00HeadThe head of the Gaplant is surrounded by the shoulder and the backpack. The spacing is very tight around the head. When the model is in MA mode, the backpack actually move in on the head about 4mm, making the space even tighter. The overall look of the original head was decent. The separable visor and the mouth piece were inviting me to modify it.<br /><br />I first trim down the pointy mouth piece and modify it into a chin. 0.25mm plaplate is used to build up a nose and outline the chin and the eye area.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7164-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7164-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Plaplate are used to build around the visor to turn it into a housing for optics. I have no idea why I added the details to the optic tube. Most of the surface is not visible. I just want to see if thin plastic strips can simulate the wiring details. The optic tube is insert into the housing and a SP eye lense from <a href="http://www.mechaskunk.com/">Mecha Skunk</a> will be glued on during the assembly.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7165-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7165-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />During the moving to my new home, the piece for the back of the head was lost. I had to scratchbuild a new one. This allows me to add a few mm of length to the head. I like to imagine it as processing unit for the optics. Basically it is built from stacking vertical plaplate together. Once the plaplate piece is built, it still leaves some gaps when attach to the head. I painted vaseline on the head, then stick a glob of epoxy putty to the processing unit and jam it into the head. Excess epoxy be squeezed out through the gaps between the head and the processing unit. The processing unit with epoxy can be pried off the head because I painted the head with Vaseline. Trimming off the excess leave me the unit with the gaps filled.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7168-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7168-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />I cut a plastic tube to make the connectors for two snake chains that will connect the processing unit to the body. This is what it look like when everything is put together.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_7170-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_7170-1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />It reminds me of Cima's pilot helmet. Maybe I will post a screen capture for comparison.Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-1315612077826970242008-03-12T11:31:00.000-07:002008-03-18T01:32:13.693-07:00<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_2583s.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2583s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Continuing with the FFS theme, I added high heels to the feet. This adds 9mm to the over all height. Details are added to the front of the feet. One of the distinct feature of the FFS resin kit is the incredible mechanical details under the feet. As you can see there is still alot of flat space left to work on.<br /><br />At first the detailing seems intimidating. After study pictures on the web, I realize most of the detailing can be accomplished by gluing plastic cards in vertical orientation and fill up as much space as possible. It takes an afternoon of cutting small parts, losing small parts, cutting small parts and gluing small parts. All I can say is my neck hurts.<br /><br /><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/?action=view¤t=IMG_2603s.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2603s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-69188490343934951982007-08-28T15:14:00.000-07:002007-08-29T07:22:25.305-07:00WaistI did not use the waist block to make the robot skinner. This leaves openings on the waist, which is filled with Milliput sculpted with some details. <br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2587s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />The front skirt armors serves as canards in MA mode. They are attached to the crotch from the side, instead of attach to the waist. The canards folds back and locks the armor in the forward direction when in MA mode.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2569s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2578s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-76991814264169697732007-08-28T15:03:00.000-07:002007-08-29T07:19:54.965-07:00Right arm and rifleThe right arm has similar construction except I build a mechanical arm at the elbow to connect with the rifle.<br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/hf_build_night3007s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br />When not in use, the arm folds into its housing. <br /><br />The long rifle is carried underhanded with the help from the elbow arm. It is a bash from the wing gundam rifle. I glued plastic cards to modify the exterior. When transformed into the MA mode, the rifle can be stored under the MA. The handle is inserted to where the model stand would go. In order for the model to use the stand when in MA mode, I removed the front part of the booster and attach it to the gun.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/hf_build_night3006s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2586s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-55730983788687839442007-08-13T07:08:00.000-07:002007-08-13T07:24:25.339-07:00Left ArmsI milliput cast the HDM for gundam NT to get the hand. Scratchbuilt new lower arms.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2576s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />The elbow joints are double jointed. I removed the piping that connects the elbow to the upper arm since they will hinder mobility of the double joints.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2570s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Now that the shields are mounted on the shoulders, the elbows are free for other stuff. Some of you Five Star Stories fan might recognize where it comes from.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2581s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />It also acts as a small missile pod.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2582s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />At this point it might be a good place to do a sanity check to see if the whole thing is transformable. Yep it does.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2577s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-33973618718845625562007-08-06T08:16:00.000-07:002007-08-13T07:07:44.501-07:00upper bodyI hated the original chest. I changed the design to a more FSS type of design. In fact, the inspiration came from the Last Junchoon discussed in this forum thread.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hobbyfanatics.com/index.php?showtopic=12953"> Last Junchoon</a><br /><br />I glued a few pieces of plastic sheets to the chest as guide and filled in with epoxy putty. Here the milliput comes in handy since the surface can be smoothed with water. Once the putty cured, I only have to sand a little bit.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2571s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />A bit of scribe and knife works adds some more details to the chest.<br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2580s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Since I mod the chest close to FSS design, I wanted to mod the waist to follow. Making the whole snake skin style waist would be crazy. I have some ideas of how to go about it, but that will be a different project. I just thin down the waist by not attaching the waist block. Where it use to be I turned it into exhaust(heat) vents.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2574s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-49470906477670071782007-08-06T07:56:00.000-07:002007-08-06T07:59:17.719-07:00flying shield complete<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2568s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />The bottom of the flying shield was equally bare as the top. I added things here and there to detail up the bottom. Mainly there is the gun housing. A binder that cover up the slide rail that make the front slide into the back portion of the shield. I didn't like to look of the compacted shield so I just glue it in the fully extended configuration.<br /><br />Underneath the thrusters, I added two wings for the flying shield and detailed up the large flat surface with another thruster vent.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2567s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />When I take the finished pictures, I will write up the shield as auto attack bits for NewTypes.Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-69876127216576211622007-08-01T15:51:00.001-07:002007-08-06T08:00:09.696-07:00ShoulderThere is a cavity in the shoulder piece between the joints and the outer surface. I cut out the surface and use the cavity as a missile bay.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_6225s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br />Ultimately I want the Gaplant to be able to wield weapons freely. Elbow mounting the flying shields seems counter intuitive so I made a shoulder mount for the shields. The mounting replaces the armor flaps that protects the upper arms. The original strut for the elbow mounting is modified to pivot off the two members of the shoulder mount using a 2.5mm PVC rod as the pin. An additional locking strut is built to provide lifting support for the mounting since the flying shield is too heavy to be supported by the pivots even when I use PVC rod.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_2566s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_6223s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2438513600641847910.post-86387190080004518542007-08-01T13:58:00.000-07:002007-08-01T14:26:55.785-07:00Flying shieldGaplant is the one transformable MS in the gundam universe that I like the most. However, the flying shield with large flat area didn't look right to me. I built additional engines similar to the thruster shield of the Hazel gundam.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_6221s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/gtetra/HGUC%20Gaplant/IMG_6222s.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>Gtetrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00524423960124059648noreply@blogger.com0