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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:
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It's done! It's been extremely cold and snowy outside recently, so I figured it would look pretty nice standing in the snow. I'm a recent convert to a Gundam fanatic - I've only seen Gundam 00 and Gundam Unicorn as of yet. I have plans to watch Gundam SEED and Gundam Wing soon though. I was going to build one of the Gundam mobile suits from Gundam 00, but since that's a much newer show they're extremely greebly and have tiny bits sticking off in every direction. RX-78-2 is much more iconic, and consists of quite a bit more flat surfaces, so I figured I had a better chance of building it with the limited parts collection and time I had. In fact, I decided I wanted to build a Gundam for a LUG display this year... three weeks before the show was scheduled. I figure that I put anywhere from 25-30 hours into this MOC, and I'm quite in love with the results. In fact, it looked quite good standing in the middle of our display: (I did hear more than one comment to the effect of 'That Transformer looks cool!' ) Though I did hear one 'stoic' applied, so I guess that evens it out! Of course we need to look at it up close... I had to apply two chest reduction surgeries to make everything look right I was originally going to go for the fancy rocket-backpack that my reference images had, but I eschewed that as I needed something sideways to hold the top onto the bottom apart from the few studs-up connections in the torso. A good thing too, because it hasn't fallen apart since! (This was an issue in the WIP model...) Possibly the one thing within the Gundam series that's more iconic than the titular mobile suits themselves: the Beam Saber! Let's not forget the accessories either: The Beam Magnum! The Medium Shield! The Beam Saber! Nothing too fancy here, this was the last item to be put together - it was the night before and I had to get up rather early... but it does its job! An accessories-only shot appears to be all the rage with Lego mech stuff nowadays, so here's one! And let's finish off with some more images: Some final thoughts... I did design it with full mobility in the joints, but it's just too heavy to really be posed in anything resembling an action shot. This is due to the weakness of the ankle joints, which are just standard Lego ball joint bricks; they're too weak to stand up to the weight and as a result the whole model is extremely prone to tipping over. To help counter this, I added some bricks surrounding the joint, but the result is that I can't really pose it in a proper action pose. In addition, the knee joints have limited travel due to the pieces I used to attach the short cone-like round pieces that you can see in the images. The arms are also fully poseable, but due to the fact that the armor pauldrons are attached to the body with a single Technic friction pin, there ends up not being enough force inherent in the joint to hold up the arm. The arm itself is attached to the pauldron with a ball joint and is therefore independently poseable from the pauldron. The next time I build a mobile suit or mecha on this scale, I'll have to look into increasing the poseability dramatically. I was starting to run out of tiles at the end and had to do some clever things to stretch my supply enough to cover the arms. Going studded was *not* an option! Overall, I feel that this project was well worth the time and effort I put into it. It's going to stay together for a long while, I think! The WIP thread can be viewed here: http://www.eurobrick...howtopic=101957
