rebuilt gm

so after making the field repair gm that I wasn't very happy with I started looking around my house for the box which contained the parts I wanted/needed so I could build a new/better gm, once I finally found the box I wasted no time in starting a new build, I had been shown a picture of a gm that I thought would translate pretty well into model kit form:

this is not my image, it was drawn by DaiGuard78 on deviantart.com

once I found the image again (I had saved it in a folder), I decided to try recoloring it to look more like how I wanted it to look on the real thing, and I ended up with this:

I started with some minor tweaks (mainly just recoloring) and then I ended up redrawing a couple parts

in the end I decided not to try and make a cloak for the kit (because it'd be too much of a hassle for me), and I decided to just leave it bare, I view it as being somewhat of a early version (maybe a prototype) of the original mobile suit (the original artwork), after it was finished I ended up with this:

I didn't use a flash in the images

I mainly used gundam markers to paint this kit except for the red parts which I used some citadel blood red to paint (because I don't have a red gundam marker), I left some parts unpainted as to break up the colors a little bit, I really like how it turned out, a really spooky looking gm which I find really hard not to stare at as it stands out among my collection, all in all I'm happy with it and I'm glad I decided to make it.

parts used: 

body: gm cold districts type

head: rx-79 ground war set (the gm head)

hands: gm sniper 2

scythe: gundam deathscythe hell

field repair gm (the spare parts gm)

so after my last couple of gundam model customs, I ended up with a headless cold districts type gm, after digging through some left over parts from previous kits I ended up with this:

I basically just put random parts together so I could have a full mobile suit, the head is the o gundams head with the antenna from the cold districts gm head (because I used the v-fin on a different model), the hands and gun are from my gm sniper 2, and the shield is from my gm sniper 1 and it has a piece I made from a leftover plastic tree to mount it onto the arm (the mounting piece for the shield kept falling off so I had to make a new one).

all in all, I'm not 100% satisfied with it but until I find some better parts it will have to do (I have an idea for what I might do to it, but at the moment I can't find the parts I want to use on it so it'll have to wait until I can locate the right parts)

rgm-o-79d cold districts prototype custom

I made this using the body of the o gundam and the head as well as the shield from the cold districts type gm.
I haven't painted or panel lined this kit because I'm too lazy to do it.
I call it a prototype because I see this as being something that could be mass produced, I think the parts look really good together and to make it was rather easy, as well the colors seem to match for the head and body (if you didn't know it was a custom, you'd probably think it was made that way).
all in all, I really like how it looks and I'm happy with it.

project idea

I haven't really done much this month, I've not been feeling the best as well as having things to do, I have had a cool project idea though, I was thinking of buying another phantasy star model kit and modding some gundam parts onto it to make a mecha musume custom, but the price of the phantasy star kits at the store where I purchased my previous kits has raised their price on the kits and I really don't want to spend too much so I guess my idea will have to wait.

08th ms team sd gundam gashapon

I ordered two sets of sd gundam gashapon online and these four were in the sets so I put them together as a separate set, I almost have all of the 08th ms team just need an rx-79 with a gm head and a hover truck (although I'm pretty sure there isn't a hover truck in this scale (sd))

Phantasy Star Blue Burst RAcaseal: redria ver. APSY

I recently bought two Phantasy Star Blue Burst RAcaseal: redria ver. APSY model kits, this kit has the option of allowing the builder to build a shorter version of the character if they so desire.

as you can see in the picture above I built both heights, the difference in assembling the different heights wasn't very difficult.

a friend of mine asked me if these model kits were around the same height as a busou shinki figure so I took this picture as a comparison picture.

the Phantasy Star Blue Burst RAcaseal: redria ver. APSY model kit is almost identical to the Phantasy Star Blue Burst RAcaseal: yellowboze ver. APSY model kit, the main difference is the color but redria also comes with more weapons and has the height option, but aside from that they are basically the same kit, so if you want a yellowboze kit but can't find one you can simply repaint a redria kit and vice versa (in my opinion: the only difficult part would be the eyes as they are different colors, but you could always due a "blank eyes" version).

all in all I am very happy with these models and I would definitely purchase this kit again.

mysterious figurine

I bought a hasegawa 1/12 scale capsule machine and a random figurine (apparently it's from an old video game), I had bought the capsule machine for the purpose of taking photos of my figures buying a toy but when I realized the figurine was meant to sit on something I got the idea to have her sit on top of the machine and I think they look really good together.

apparently the figurine is from a dating game, I've tried to find the name of the game and had gotten a few different results which are: grafitty angels, angel grafitti s, grafitti angels. apparently the game was a dating game for the sega saturn, and the figure was supposedly made in 1998, that is pretty much all that I know about the figurine (I don't even know the characters name) but perhaps in the future I'll find out more about it.

this photo has been edited, it is the two above photos that have been cropped then put side by side, if you look closely you can see the line that separates the two photos.