Some time back I started work on a conversion project where I took the
1/100 Scale Heavy Arms Custom Kai from Endless Waltz, and convert it
into something more like what appeared in the Anime series. I had
finished the project some time ago but hadn't had a chance to finish the
review video of it. Well it is up now!
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Monday, November 23, 2015
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015
And it's name is Epyon. So here we have the finished OZ-13MS Gundam Epyon on the Libra Base with lighting effects.This was an educational project and I'm glad I undertook it, even if the final result isn't quit what I had envisioned when I began. This is the root of why I run this blog, the analysis and understanding of my projects.
So with a finished project, what problems did I encounter working on it? Well the legs are the first thing that...
Monday, November 09, 2015
So now we're starting to wrap up this project. Wow has it ever been a trip to get to this point, from experimenting with casting clear resins, to building new sections to replace what would otherwise be moving joints, to modifying existing parts to accept new components. Now it all begins to come together.
It was a fairly simply matter to cast a new part for the chest gem. I simply attached the original gen sticker to a segment of styrene tubing,...
Friday, November 06, 2015
So today I'm talking about fabrication. One of the major features of the Gundam Epyon is its ability to transform from mobile suit mode:
to a twin-headed dragon style mobile armor:
This gimmick is carried over to the model itself and is managed by way a
splitting hip/waist assembly. As far a gimmick trick it's a nice setup,
but for my purposes it creates some issues. Specifically the risk of
the hinge joint causing the electrical...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
I knew from the start that the giant beam saber was going to be a critical component of the finished model. I wanted the entire saber effect to glow bright green and that was going to be a challenge. At first I toyed with the idea of inserting a flat LED into the base of the saber effect and running wires through the hilt and into the hip.
While there was ample space to place the LED in the base of the saber effect, there was the issue of...
Monday, November 02, 2015
"Hey Zecks, Zero is saying you have no future. Is Epyon telling you different?"
So today I'm talking about the head. Since this a basically humanoid model, you know if you ignore the large wings, the devilish appearing armor and the whip arm that is, the head is a major focus point for the model. Because of this I wanted to put extra care into it's production and preparation.
The first challenge was making space for the LED in the head....
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