RX-0 Unicorn Gundam 02 Banshee (Novel version)

Like an angel falling from the sky, the appearance of Banshee at the beginning of UC Gundam still considered to be one of the first most unforgivable scene in this serie.

In the OVA design, with its newly design weapons Armed Armor VN mounted on its left hand and Armed Armor BS on its right, the image of Banshee is more beast-like, menacing, and less elegant comparing to its novel counterpart.

Having said that, the motive of my building the novel version of banshee was not because I didn't like the OVA design - I just bought one extra MG Unicorn Gundam to make the Banshee way before Bandai announced its' production of the OVA UC Gundam = =

Ingredient A: 1x MG Unicorn Gundam

Ingredient B: 1 x Banshee's Antenna Mod Part

+ a hell of paint jobs!

Done!

Equipped with beam gatling gun and shield

-hayashi

Shin Kage Musha Gundam Exia (真.影武者頑駄無Exia)

One day I realized I had a whole lot of spare parts of MG Musha Gundam(真武者頑駄無) and 1/100 Exia gundam for some random Gunpla modding project and wanted to make some good uses of them. 

This product is actually inspired by two works:

1. Ebinawa Kanetake Sensei's original idea of creating Avalanche Gundam Exia - an Exia equipped with traditional japanese musha-like armors 

2. An old-time BB-senshi character called Nomanu appeared with its newest form in Musha Retsuden(武者烈伝). In the story, Nomanu is the 影武者 (kage musha = political decoy) of 武者頑駄無 with great agility, which fits pretty well with the image of Exia.

1/100 Exia equipped with Musha Gundam's armor

Parts dissembled and categorised by the color to be painted

Long and painful painting procedures

Done painting!

Front view

The head armament(e.g. lion) and the shooting
star are from BB-279 Onmitsu Nomaru

So here it is, with the final product.

-hayashi

1/100 Gundam Exia Avalanche Dash (Under Construction)

It's been a while I haven't had any update on this blog. Oh, it is not like I have lost my passion about modelling, I was just thinking that maybe it is time to set myself a challenge, and here comes the work of this time:

GN-001/hs-A010 Gundam Exia Avalanche Dash.

Background:
Had its debut on Hobby Japan's 00V Senki in which the story flashed back to Season 1, right before the Celestial Being were destroyed by the World Alliance, this equipment was deployed in a mission in which Setsuna was assigned to destroy an asteroid on the course of collision of Earth.

My challenge is to make it in scale of 1/100.

Snapshots in Production:

Sliding boards built purely using 1.2mm plastic board  

Trajectory to facilitate the sliding boards to move back and forth
during the mode change.

Test-mounted on the legs

Mode Change (from sliding board mode to booster mode)

Front View

Rear View

What is left to do:

1. Paintings (Obviously) 

2. Mechanical details on parts.

3. There are various technical issues needed to be handled.

to be continued...

-hayashi

1/100 O-Raiser Full Armaments Type Part 1

Inspired by PG O-Raiser's full armament type, I tried so hard to find the replacement of those firearms. And Voila! I found this box in a local Model store at a price of 100HKD, and it seems to be a perfect match with my 1/100 O-Raiser.

After some intensive paintings, here comes the finished product:

AMM-1 GN Missile

RMS-1 GN Reactor Bomb

UUM-7 Micro GN Missile Pod

Finally, some pictures taken with both O-Raiser and its equipment.

The next step will be figuring a way to mount the equipment which at the same time allows to dismount it at later time without breaking the pieces.. I am thinking of using some pieces of magnet, any other suggestions?

-Hayashi

Guitar build complete!

Meet Pumpkin! :D

 

 Pau ferro fretboard!

 DiMarzio Tone Zone!

 Quartersawn canary neck!

 

One more shot with my orange seatbelt strap XD
I'm just missing a green knob (or a pumpkin knob haha) and it'll be 100% complete! :D

This was my first guitar build and I learned many things. SUPER happy that it turned out amazing! She plays super well and sounds huge! :D This is my first single humbucker guitar (I've wanted one for a while) and I find it sounds a lot better than guitars with 2+ pups...simplified circuit perhaps? She has nice clean sounds too! but distortion will be where it's at for this one ;)

This guitar also has quite a few new features to me. First being the 10"-16" compound radius fretboard. I must say this feels AMAZING...so comfy all over the neck. The second would be stainless steel frets. They feel smoother when bending but I still need to polish them at some point. Third would be the raw canary neck. Warmoth says that it's ok for it to be unfinished and right now it really feels great! You can really feel it vibrating when you play :)

Will post the rest of the in-progress pics later...for now, I'm too excited about it! :D

-snow

Guitar build cont'd!

 Got a package from GFS today. Here's a quite pic with the parts together!

Looks neat :D
The body feels incredibly cheap tho (well it was only $50 :P) haha. There are lots of weird dents/scratches but feels pretty light. Can't wait to see how the whole thing sounds! The bridge is really hefty! They weren't kidding when they said "huge brass block!" The tuners feel alright, nothing too special but don't feel super cheap. Pickguard is pretty nice too :)

The rest of the parts are still in the mail...neck should arrive next week. Can't wait!

-snow

Guitar build!

My first guitar build! The nickname is "pumpkin" for now hahaha
Here's a mockup from photoshop:

Specs:
Neck is a quartersawn piece of canary with a pau ferro fingerboard from Warmoth. Compound 10"-16"in radius with huge stainless steel frets :P Standard thin carve with cream dots :) Since this is my first build I wanted a nice neck I wouldn't have to modify much to get working properly so most of the budget of this build went here :P

Everything else is from GFS to keep the final price down. Trans orange poplar strat body. 6-point trem (different from the picture) with a huge brass block. Black hardware and staggered gotoh-style locking tuners

The pickup is a dimarzio Tone Zone. Why green? Well...initially I was looking for a black one but then I saw a green one on ebay so I said "What the heck...it'll look like a pumpkin XD"


Future upgrade considerations
-will definitely put in a neck single coil at some point and add a tone control...just gotta save up some money and decide what kinda pup I want there first
-might upgrade the body in the future if I end up not liking the feel of it. I went with a budget body so I could practice putting something together and even if I mess up I won't be in tears.

-snow