Here's something I've started to work on. I thought I was going to build this kit out of box style without any modification, as I have two HGUC Sazabis.  However, I just couldn't resist...The stock kit already looks pretty good by itself, so I don't plan on doing anything drastic in terms of altering its appearance, but that may change later  if I see the need for it. For now, scribing some lines, minor reshaping and adding some detailing will be good enough.

As I've said earlier, the stock kit looks pretty nice. However, the surface of the kit is too clean or too plain for me. With that said, I wanted to spice it up a little bit by adding some surface detailing.

I started out by drilling the chest vents located at the left and right side. After I did that, I cut up the center piece of the chest armor to add some more vent-like detailing. And as you can see, some panel lines added.



A closer look at the upper body. The face was slightly reshaped and lines added to the head.



I saw this cool drawing which was used for advertising the Gundam War card game in HobbyJapan. In this drawing, the Sazabi has some nice surface detailing which gives me a good idea on what I want to add on to the Sazabi once I receive my new scribing tools.


Here's the shield with more vent detailing added. I cut up small pieces of plastic styrene from Evergreen which has the grooves on them, and then have them trimmed and sanded into shape in order to fit the shield cover.


Reshaped the knee with Tamiya quick type epoxy.

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Thanks for your support! I appreciate it.

Update time.

Did a tiny bit of surface detailing, which you might not notice unless you look closely . Most of the time was spent on modding and reshaping the leg and forearm armor. I wanted a more straight-edge look for the leg armor, so it'll look better(I think...) and easier to work with once I smooth it out with sandpaper and add some panel lines. As for the forearm armor, the design itself was inspired by the Shinanju. It's far from how it looks on the Shinanju because I didn't know what I was doing for most of the time. And all this is to be blamed on my newbie skills .

Note: As you can tell, the forearm mod is not yet finished. As a matter of fact, it's probably just about halfway finished, as I need to work on the upper portion.

Wah! you are making both arms! would suggest making one and then duplicate it, unless its curving on the horizontal plane too...if its identical front and back, suggest duplicate and then make minor adjustment to fit the other arm. good thinking on the shinanju reference!

Yep, I am doing it the hard way by trying to make two idential looking forearm armor>_<. I lack the knowledge and set up for recasting, so unfortunately for me that was never an option when I started modding the forearms. Hopefully I'll be able to practice recasting in the future as I gain more experience along the way .

[ 本帖最後由 MachineMessiah 於 2008-9-12 04:33 PM 編輯 ]

Currently working on building a new backpack. And once again,  the idea for the design came from looking at the Shinanju' backpack.

Start by sawing apart the backpack cover.


Rebuilding the middle with plastic plates.


Not yet done, still have to put covers on the bottom of the new backpack and sand the edges. And lastly, add metal thrusters and perhaps a rear view camera on top of the backpack.

好正咁wor~~
加油呀~

Thanks!


I wanted to see how the backpack will look like with the thrusters, so I used masking tapes to unite the parts temporarily. As of now it looks like a "box" , but that'll change once all the parts are glued together and the edges sanded.



[ 本帖最後由 MachineMessiah 於 2008-9-17 10:49 AM 編輯 ]

Well, the backpack is just about done. I'm thinking whether or not I should add some surface detailing...




And for detailing purposes, I used the grooved styrene on the inside of the backpack.