WiP: HGUC Kshatriya #4

As promised, here is the long awaited(?) continuation of the Kshatriya WiP.  We’ll finish up with the wings, which are probably the most impressive part of this kit.  Each wing along is bigger than the actual mobile suit itself, and comes pack with their own beam cannons, thrusters, funnels, and even extending arms for wielding extra beam sabers.  The kit itself only comes with two sabers, and also has no where in the kit to store them.  Most likely they would be stored under the forearm armor, just like the Sinanju does.  I would expect that each wing would have it’s own saber to tuck in somewhere as well. 

So, getting started, I snipped out all the parts of course.

Taken before I decided to take a few weeks to paint the kit.

And heres with the inner armor, thrusters, funnels, and cannons attached.

The extending arms themselves work out really nice, adding more length to an already impressive wing span.

One arm built and one not.

Once attached they tuck in really nice inside the wings.

And attached to the shoulder box, where you can lock the hinges into place for positioning purposes.

And with that, I’m finally done with the Kshatriya!  How did it turn out?

Say hello to this bad boy!

You know what, maybe the paint job wasn’t so bad after all?

More pictures (No, really, I promise) coming with the wrap up next post.

WiP Part #1 time: 2 hours
WiP Part #2 time: 2.5 hours
WiP Part #3 time: 3 hours
WiP Part #4 time: 0.5 hours
Total WiP total time: 9 hours, not including time for painting, add three weeks for that =p

Kshatriya update

After a couple of healthy doses of “life” over the last few weeks, I was finally able to sit down and move forward on a couple of things.  One being the long overdue Kshatriya, which I left you all hanging on right at the near end.  As I mentioend, I decided to go ahead and paint it, and finally wrapped that up.  I will say right off the bat that this paint job didn’t turn out as well as the Sinanju at all, due to a variety of reasons, one being probably a lack of initial painting process this time around, coupled with the change in location from apartment balcony to spraying out a window.  But I’ll write up about that further during the wrapup.

HGUC RX-78-2 Gundam Ver. G30th 7-11 Color

That’s a long title there.  You’ll forgive me that I don’t do a WiP as this is pretty much the same Ver. G30th that’s been out for the last several months, just done in new colors.  As I said before, I really like the colors of this kit, and the seals that it comes with really adds to it.  Without further ado, a few pictures for you.

Front

Side

Back

Pimping the rifle

Fairly stable for posing

Out of the blue Eco Gouf attacks!  What does he want?

Why, he needs to pick up the new issue of Gundam Ace at 7-11!

Unlucky for him, this 7-11 has saved the last copy for Amuro.

Who runs in to snag that issue.

 

 

Yet more limited items…

As I’ve said before, I’ve got a pretty bad weakness for the “gentei” items.  Gentei (限定) means limited in Japanese.  Unfortunately, slap that word on an item, and you’ll get my attention.  As Gaigun noted in his post today, 7-11 here in Japan has officially started their 7-11 meets Gundam 30th campaign today.  With this comes a variety of Gentai Gundam goods….  it doesn’t help that there is also a 7-11 located right in front of my office, as well as close to where I live at home.

Anyways, I picked up a few of the keychains, like Gai Gun.  All together there’s around 10 to collect.  I myself don’t know what I’ll do with them, but, well, hey, gentei.

Three down…

They also have a lucky draw available, for 5 bucks.  I gave it a couple of goes…

And we score a pen, mug, and one of the little diorama figures

The mug? cup? is actually neat, and functional

The diorama thing, is, well, meh…

 But the real gentei stuff?  Well that would be…

My first regular GFF

The back

Posing

Well, since this is my first regular GFF, I can only compare it to the GFFMC (My Zeta Plus).  First off, I have to admit, I like the Katoki design of the original Gundam much more than the “regular anime” design.  It comes off more square-ish, but looks much better.  Also, the 7-11 coloring looks good as well.  Now the quality however, is definitely not as good as the GFFMC.  I’ve had the arm pop off when trying to adjust, and the leg armor popped off as well… but well, it’s cool looking, so there you go!  Overall, out of the 7-11’s I stopped by today (yeah, I went to like 5 between my out of office meetings and on the way home) the only one I saw was at the 7-11 by work, and it was the only one they had.

Now, for the other bit of gentei, which apparently most stores again only got one of (and I only found at the store by my home) is the 7-11 Color version of the HGUC Gundam Ver. G30th kit.  You’ll note that the coloring on the GFF torso is red, while the HGUC is green.  Again, pretty cool coloring.  What’s more impressive is that the manual is actually done up with the limited edition kit colors as well.  Most other limited edition kits I’ve seen to date has the same drab manual that comes with the regular edition.

Box art

Runners and manual, with 7-11 seals

The manal itself

So with this I realized something.  Despite my being a general fan of Gundam, I don’t own a regular version kit of the RX-78 Gundam.  I’ve avoided it like the plague, but I really like the varients, or as we like to call it, the gentei.  And for the time being, it looks like it’s going to stay that way.

Slow on updates

My apologies, life has been rearing it’s ugly head more and more lately.  I am slowly but sure finishing up the Kshatriya, which as you may have guessed, I decided to paint.  Unfortunately, I run out of paint right before the last piece.  Now that’s a kicker.  I’m going to have to spend $4 bucks to buy another can of paint just to finish the last wing… gah.  Anyways, a picture of the general mess that is my work area…