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