Phoxtane Posted October 31, 2014 I'm hoping that by posting these here it'll keep me on track to finish this project properly! I'm hoping to get this done for the weekend of November 8 and 9 as that's when my LUG comes to my town and sets up a display - the only one I can attend and display at, as travel times and display dates for the others have always clashed with school (maybe college will help with this problem). Either way, this is the work I've done so far: ... Or at least, that's how far I got on this iteration before I gave up. See, I didn't originally intend to build the RX-78-2 Gundam - I had just finished watching Gundam 00 and wanted to build a Gundam Exia. I think those legs turned out quite well, but I ran into problems trying to build the large round piece on the front armor and the iconic cone shape of the solar reactor in the scale I had chosen, so I scrapped that project and moved on. I figured that the greater amount of flat panels on the RX-78-2 would be easier to build, so I jumped up in scale and went on to these. Similar problems ensued in that I seem to have an issue building everything above the legs. That, and I couldn't get the angled bits on the legs right either. So I moved up in scale again... At this point I think it becomes minifigure scale, which'll pretty much dwarf half of everything in my LUG's display. Once again I run into the curse of not know where to go from the legs up. Either way, with the trend of the figure doubling in size over a two week period, twice in a row, I think it'll be person-sized by the end of November. Much of the inspiration and ideas for the latest revision have come from this model here: http://rebrickable.c.../gundam-78-2-rx I wanted something that size but a bit more clean-looking, so I've adapted the frame and underlying structure to my purposes. As mentioned before, I'm not really sure how to build the armor 'skirt' and torso area, apart from knowing I want to use 2x2 yellow tiles to represent similar markings on the original. For reference purposes I'm using these images: I've also no idea how I'll do the head, the hands, and pretty much everything else that I don't have completed at this time... so let's look at a funny picture that I took after realizing I didn't want to struggle with Exia much more: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoxtane Posted November 4, 2014 (edited) I've gotten quite a bit more done with this project. It looks as if the torso will be built in the same way I did the head: a sort of outer detail shell held together by brackets in the center. As much as I'd love to have a proper cockpit, there really isn't any time - the display opens this Saturday! I prefer the vent design on the left, made using ladder pieces, but I don't have enough as far as I know to do both sides like that. I'll have to do some more digging. The head will be mounted on some sort of pan-and-tilt swivel mount for proper posing. Right now it's just directly attached to the placeholder scaffold with some round 2x2 bricks. I even managed to work in the tail thrusters - it's likely that only the shorter kids will be able to see those! The side armor skirt and its mini-thrusters are here as well. I wanted to make them bigger, but I feel like this captures the piece quite well as it is. There's even some greebly bits in the knee joint. They're probably not canon, but they look good, so it doesn't really matter. Have I mentioned that I haven't even watched the original Gundam show? I've only ever seen Gundam 00 and Gundam Unicorn. Edited November 4, 2014 by Phoxtane Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoxtane Posted November 6, 2014 It's getting closer, as does the date of my LUG's display... Any comments? I shortened up the top of the slanted bit and extended out the flat bit where the head rests, to reduce the boxiness. Either way, I had no idea mecha had such thin torsos! I'll have to do something fancy to keep it from falling apart. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoxtane Posted November 7, 2014 Shortly after this picture was taken, the top half separated from the bottom half and fell off the dresser - I wasn't able to find the right hand Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
matt_one Posted November 7, 2014 Hi Phoxtane! We may already know each other, or am I wrong? After seeing your w.i.p. pictures all I can tell you is to look at the original Gundam's reference picture and try to get better proportions between body, arms and legs. Legs and torso in particular seems too short compared to the overall height. Again, look at the first picture you've posted today and compare arms and legs to the waist width : it seems that you need bigger arms and bigger legs. Legs and head design is nice and looking at the last picture, with right proportions this could turns out a nice creation. As regard the fallen top half, I have not any suggestion since my models would do worse if they were made with real bricks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phoxtane Posted November 13, 2014 I have finished the model, and it displayed quite nicely with the rest of our Lego city setup at the show this weekend. I have some pictures from the show, but I am wondering if I should hold off on posting those pictures until I can get my hands on the proper photoshoot pictures... either way, it's hard to tell! I can't post anything more here then because it is no longer a WIP. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
