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

Posted by Erix93 : 25th December 2007, 10:30 pm

Well... today is Christmas day, it's a holiday for me & my family... so I stole some time to rush this project, coz starting from next week, I think I might have less time to work on this.

Next week will be the first day of school / kindergarden of my daughter... not sure what will happen after that.. also a first time for me to bring my child to school.. :p

On top of that, I just recieved a commision work; MG Destiny Gundam, which needs to finished by February... too many things need to rush... rush...
Ok, enough of all the bull shit, continue with my WIP...

I'm adding in a ball joint to the neck to increase mobility...

Next, some detailing in the inside of the body...

This is how the it looks with the lower torso attached....

Test fit... to double check if the deatiling blocks any of the movement....

This is how the original neck part looks like after I replaced the bottom hinge with a ball joint.

I seperate the "collar" part to try to make more space to allow the head to move around .

I also shaved off some excess plastic around the inner parts of the neck area to allow better movement of the head.

I really don't like the original head design of the Exia (it really looks like Mickey to me),
so I decided to make own version. But of course,... me being a lazy guy, I prefer using spare parts as it is much easier for me compared to scratchbuilding.. hahaha.

This unuse part from the head of an MG FAZZ Gundam..

To make allow the FAZZ part ot be attached, the top portion of the V-Fin was removed like so. This is to allow the V-Fin to be removed and reattched later for painting.

The removed part is reattached into the bottom of the FAZZ part.

The entire assembly is coated and reshaped with epoxy putty.

After surfacer & sanding...

Test fit overall..

Posted by Erix93 : 1st January 2008, 8:00 pm

Since WB is busy with he's wife & the new born baby...
I better do the write-up myself.... (no write-up actually... hehehe)

Here's a small up-date of the head.

The head is not finished yet, as i still need to follow up with some detailing.