Sid Ri'cel's blog

Been planning this build for a while now. Finally got around to starting it. The idea behind it as a Space-type version of the Gouf, similar to the Rick Dom upgrade to the Dom mobile suits. I decided to incorporate concepts and parts from the Kämpfer mobile suit, into the Gouf, as sort of an evolutionary bridge between the Gouf and Kämpfer designs.

Following the LED Mono-Eye tutorial I got the LED wires running down the neck to the rear of the torso, haven't mounted the battery or switch yet, so the wires dangle out the back. Shoulder spikes are still sticky-tacked, haven't finished the mounting yet.

Been working on this Zaku off and on, started it at Gamera's June '08 Build Gathering, with a little more work at following gatherings, and some sporatic work at home. So far I've replaced the stock plastic "power cables" with brass beads and springs, replaced the plastic backpack thrusters with aluminium thrusters, and replaced the spikes with pointy-Adler's-nest-awesome-spikes. I'll show details on those later, This post is about the Mono-eye.

Haven't had much time with finals and getting ready to move. Some of the parts already have silver and burnt iron paint, lower right.

Primered parts:

Overall progress so far: between 60-70% of the parts are ready for primer, I'll start priming within the week.

Latest updates on the Spartan, got distracted a bit so not as much progress as I'd like.

Evened out the chest vent armor with putty.

Prepared lower torso for thrusters.

Started building Anakin's Podracer from Star Wars

It's a pretty simple kit, 1/32 scale.

The pod itself has some horrible seemlines, so I set it aside for now and did some modding to the engines.

Part of the reason for this blog is to keep centralized WIPs that I previously posted across several forums. This WIP had 4 updates on those forums before I created the blog, new updates will appear as separate blog entries.

I'm building this GM Spartan from Ako Creation, I have some ideas on what I'd like to do with this kit, going for more of a "Spartan Custom" so to speak. My goal is to finish this kit for the MMC Conversion Contest, as well as teach myself new techniques... also, to have fun with magnets...