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Non Grade 1/100 Gundam Exia / Plamo 00 Exia Vagant

Posted by Erix93 : 11th December 2007, 1:30 am

This is the work in progress log for my entry for Plamo's 'Exia Vagant' challenge. I'm really excited & can't wait to see the works of other masters in the region like Pazu, Orange & Izzaku from Singapore, Eday from Hong Kong, Nath from Philipines, and of course my 2 best friends; Whitebase & G_net. I've never had a chance to compete with them face to face before so this is a chance of a life time..

Winning or Losing in this special Group Build is not important at all to me. The most important thing is that I can put my humble kit beside the works of these masters.

Oops! Too much nonsence already... I should stop here.

Engine start now!!

Below is how the model looks like right out of the box.

The shoulder joint for this model comes with a flexible rubber... my feelings is a "yeeaak~!!"

I decided to change the design to suit my tastes, by using the upper arm from an MG Freedom. Shown here are the parts I need to change.

Below is the comparison of how the inner frames look for both the kits.

To merge the parts, I had to do some 'surgery'

Here's how it looks like once i merged the inner frame parts.

With the inner frame merged, I can now attach the Freedom's upper arm to the Exia's forearm. Here's a comparison of the original arm design, versus the one which i swapped the upper arm.

Repeat the steps above for the other arm..

Next up, the forearm. I first cut the fore arm in 2. Then I covered up the hole using a piece of 'pla-plate'.

The seperated parts were re-attached, but I intentionally made a 'step' while doing so.

The gap created in this 'step' was filled up using layers of pla-plate like so. The final pic show's how it looks like assembled back onto the main forearm.