flying shield complete

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.

Underneath the thrusters, I added two wings for the flying shield and detailed up the large flat surface with another thruster vent.



When I take the finished pictures, I will write up the shield as auto attack bits for NewTypes.

Shoulder

There 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.



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.

Flying shield

Gaplant 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.