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

Posted by Erix93 : 17th December 2007, 11:13 pm

The upper arm of the MG freedom needs to be adjusted so that the elbow joint can move freely. Right now it obstructs movement a little. Below is how the upper arm looks like.


All that nees to be done is to remove a little bit of access plastic. The part on the right hand side shows the plastic which has been removed. After removing the excess plastic, the edges are sanded down to achieve the bevelled edge like the original design.

Here's a comparison. The arm on the left is with the excess plastic removed. You can see how the upper arm would block movement if left as it is.



I've run out of Kotobukiya parts for detailing. So while waiting from my orders to arrive, I skipped the detailing work, and proceeded with the torso... Below is the original part.

From the side...

You can see that the inner frame for the torso is molded as 1 continuous part.

Also, the bottom part of the torso has this additional part to fill up the gap, but also impedes movement.

Shown below is how much the torso can bend without mods.

To increase mobility, I seperated the torso into 2 parts like so.

Here's how the seperated parts look like from the side.

To allow the lower waist to bend, I cut away some excess plastic.
 
 

Here's a test fit to see how it would look like with the torso bending.

Next up, ball joints!

A spare PC joint from my stash...

Rough positioning of the PC joint, followed by lots of scrap pla-plate and superglue to lock the PC joint in place.

Using a spare part from a MG Ball.... to house the ball joint.

Here's what the modded parts look like now

When connected...
 
 


And finally,testing if it actually works properly.......


To increase the range of movement, I decided to cut off some area which would block the movement of the parts.
 

Final test with the outer armour attached....

Here's another small update. I want the front piece on the lower torsoto be free moving to allow more flexibility.

To have a flexible joint, I will connect the parts using springs.
I boght this WAVE A-Spring from my first trip to Hong Kong.

Drill some holes on the lower torso...

Test fit with the spring... It fits!

Cut some short lengths of springs and plce them on the front piece. I'm using the premolded cavities which comes with the part.

Test fit...

Now the front piece moves to conform with the upper body when bending forward, and will automatically return to its original place when straightened.

With the excess plastic removed from the upper torso, the body can now twist a little like so... (left & right).

That's all for the update.. Stay tune~!!



 

 
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