Some more progress today.
Lessons learned so far? Resin fucking sucks. Despite a good cleaning my primer acted completely different to resin than it does normal plastic. It also has the tendency to randomly break, as you’ll see when I post close up shots.
Behold, the first work in progress shot of my MG Banshee.
So far things are going okay. Although the paint I’m using does a good job of exposing all the little flaws from failed sanding attempts. Plus I’m almost out. Already.
What we have here is Bandai’s 1/48 scale Mega Size Model Gundam RX-78-2. As far as I know it’s Bandai’s largest general release kit. At 15″ tall it dwarfs even Perfect Grade kits.
In general the kit is very simple. No internal frame, no special gadgets or gizmos. All the joints are done with poly caps which feature a unique toothed design. With these little notches the kit does a fantastic job at staying in place. Even the arm has no difficulty holding the large shield in place.
I ordered some grey Unicorn Gundam decals for use on my upcoming Banshee conversion. They’ve arrived, and I’m not happy.
This is the image used by the eBay seller,
This is closer to the actual color,
Completely different colors, won’t go with my color scheme at all. Fucking hell, they’d better refund my money.
Check out the kick ass box art for the new MG Unicorn to be released later this month.
I’m assuming this is just for the regular version. I figure the HD + Cage kit will be slightly different.
via Ngee Khiong
Bandai’s 1/100 Master Grade Sinanju was my first build of 2009*.
(I haven’t proofed this article, so suck it)
From a build quality this kid if fucking fantastic. Not only does it look great, but it’s a big sucker, considerably taller than most MG Gundams. Much to my surprise this kit lacks pollycap joints. While I hated that on my Crossbone the mechanics here are great. The joints are innovative and make for lots of movement. The only issue here is that the shield can be a bit heavy (at least with the beam saber things attached) than the arm can support. If it’s clipped on the forearm it has a tendency to pop off all to easily or slowly cause the arm to dip down.
