1/144 MMS-01 (OZ-17MS) Serpent Kai [p02]

Here's what precious little I've finished so far:

1. Added a blade as a tribute to the anime Gundam Heavyarms. Swings back when not in use:



2. A "gun pod" will go on the left shoulder, still unfinished:

* Scrapped! For now.

3. A couple of pics of the leg:

* I wanted to deepen the panels on the leg but it was too tedious to scribe panels. So I borrowed an idea to cut-out the panels and add plaplates from the inside. (Thanks Puffer Fiz!)
* Beefed up the knee armour, inspired by the Dom Funf. Will need puttying and lots of cleaning though, mainly because of the superglue glop (had a minor accident).

4. I initially wanted to add planet defensers on the left shoulder, just like the Virgo's. Threw that idea away because this grunt may look to super for its own good. So I just puttied it ala-Zaku.

5. Added some detail to the chest:


6. Beefed up the sword as Cyclone X suggested:


7. Missile launchers on the right shoulder:

8. Also came up with a backpack:

* This part took me the longest to build. Basically got the aft portion of a 1/144 F-15 fuselage (the ventral half to be exact) then slapped styrene all over it. :D

* I tried to simulate thrusters on the inside, barely noticable though:


9. I've always wanted a BFG for a grunt so I chopped up the beam cannon and slapped on the gattling and a scratched big bore cannon...



* Which now looks like this:


* The orange thingy is the cap from Tamiya's putty. It's supposed to be the ammo cap or something, like Katoki's Wing Zero's.

1/144 MMS-01 (OZ-17MS) Serpent Kai [p01]

START DATE: 19th October 2007, 20:43h

Here's my first real post: modding the MS 1/144 MMS-01 (OZ-17MS) Serpent from the OVA Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz.

I started this project 19-October-2007 (yep, a helluva long time ago). I have been intermittently working on this since then due to a number of reasons: work, personal responsibilities, even financial constraints at one time or the other.

Here's what I have so far (I apologize for the pics, just used the phone's camera for these):

Mods:
1. Removed the missile bays in both shoulders, especially the right shoulder.
2. Removed the skinny portion that's supposed to connect the upper limbs to the body. That's gonna replace the green adhesive.
3. Extended the head and body (see 2nd pic).
4. Extended rear portion of the head and added some (not-yet-visible) details. It's actually the two circles and a trapezoidish panel in between.
5. Removed portion of the thingamajig on the chest's underside. Will add conduction coils later.

In more ways than one, this is a first for me:
* This was my real build after 10 looong years. All the recent builds were just OOB.
* This was my first ever WIP. hehehe
* This is my first mod.
* This will also be my first painted kit. Yeah, all the kits I built as a kid were just slapped together, nothing more.

New Life: Migrating from webSITE to weBLOG

Geocities canceled it's free service October 26, 2009, and something that started as a hobby around 6 years ago is now seemingly an integral part of my online persona.

So, I am taking another step: blogging.

I'm not the kind who blogs everything; I just want to have my small plot on cyberspace. A hobbyist experimenting on HTML and stuff. And of course, my own page to share what I have been up to.

And so, here we go again...