Side Project

Side Project

A week too late for April Fool's, but I thought I'd put it up anyway.

 Premium Bandai - RG Astray Gold Frame Amatsu (Mirage Colloid Activate Mode) box fan art

"The actual product may vary slightly from the images on the package."

"Action Base sold separately."

Side Project

I was rather frustrated at not being able to find any decent scans of Gunpla manual symbols, so I redrew some myself.

RG 1/144 WIP- RX-78-3 G-3 Gundam

I can't even remember when I bought this. Though it's probably been sitting in the pile for two years or so.

So apparently, it has the special Magnetic Coating parts on a separate runner and not mentioned in the original manual. I got a bad feeling I'll forget about the fact later on, so I decided to stick them on right away.

Four of the four ankle guards I've built from the RG RX-78-2 had mold defects so I'm assuming it's not a one off thing. Neither of these from the G-3 had the defect though. It's very good to know Bandai is constantly improving their molds.

I was rather disappointed it uses the same sticker sheet as RX-78-2 unlike the Premium Bandai RG Astray Blue Frame which had its own dedicated sheet. A pleasant surprise though was a little waterslide sheet with G-3 decals.

I wanted all units to have a different weapon. Prototype Gundam has its own Beam Rifle, but G-3's is identical to Gundam's, so I decided to give it a Hyper Bazooka instead.

Four down, three to go!

Side Project

RG 1/144 WIP- RX-78-2 Gundam

After roughly two years as a Gunpla builder, I'd finally gotten around to build Gundam.

Other than some paint and panel lines, this was strictly a straight build. Although the actual span of the project lasted nearly a month because I had a lot of things going on during the build, I only spent roughly three work-days on this.

Side Project

Here's something that's got me frustrated since getting the RG Strike Freedom.
The unexplainable lack of a RG Infinite Justice release.

It's been years since Strike Freedom's release with no sign of it's partner any time soon and I had been agonizing over whether I should just wait or attempt to port the InJus parts onto a RG Justice model.

Just when I thought the excruciatingly long wait was finally over...

It turns out to be a mistake by Bandai.

Well today, I use turn to art to vent my frustration.

Come on, Bandai. I promise to buy two, so do me a favor here.

I don't even care if it's a Premium exclusive.

Side Project